Archive for 2018

The Plight of the Druze Hostages Held by ISIS & the War on the Islamic State – by Talal el-Atrache

Posted by Joshua on Friday, November 9th, 2018

Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform – by Robert G. Rabil

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

Interview with Lebanon’s Minister of Refugee Affairs, Mouin Merhebi

Posted by Matthew Barber on Friday, October 26th, 2018

Idlib: The Game Above the Game – by David W. Lesch

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 20th, 2018

Loyalty over geography: Re-interpreting the notion of ‘Useful Syria’ — By Matthias Sulz

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 6th, 2018

60 years after Iraq’s 1958 July 14 Revolution by Christopher Solomon

Posted by Chris Solomon on Friday, August 24th, 2018

Romancing Rojava: Rhetoric vs. Reality

Posted by Matthew Barber on Tuesday, July 31st, 2018

Winning in Syria and the Middle East – By David W. Lesch and Kamal Alam

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 16th, 2018

Helsinki Meeting Does Little to Clarify America’s Syria Policy – By Joshua Landis 

Posted by Joshua on Monday, July 16th, 2018

The Think-Tanks Bark and the IRGC Moves On

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Friday, July 13th, 2018

Thoughts On Southern Syria

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, June 24th, 2018

Israel’s Secret war for Syria’s Independence by Meir Zamir

Posted by Chris Solomon on Wednesday, June 20th, 2018

Juliette El-Mir Saadeh: Gender politics and women in armed conflict in Syria

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, June 9th, 2018

It Would Have Been Preferable Not to Militarily Intervene in Syria – By Ambassador @nikolaosvandam

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 8th, 2018

U.S. Involves itself Ever Deeper in Middle East with No Clear Strategic Interest – By Sam Farah

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 6th, 2018

Iran in Syria: “Cognitive Empathy” and Interests

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, May 13th, 2018

Turkey’s Afrin Operation Stokes Syrian Yazidi Fears and Fuels Displacement — by Sylvain Mercadier

Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, May 10th, 2018

The Last Thing the Middle East Needs Now Is Another War  – By Robert Rabil

Posted by Joshua on Friday, April 27th, 2018

The Syrian Social Nationalist Party’s (SSNP) Expansion in Syria – By Jesse McDonald

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 22nd, 2018

Trump May Be Right – By David W. Lesch

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, April 17th, 2018

Creating a New Syria: Property, Dispossession, and Regime Survival — by Erwin van Veen

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, April 15th, 2018

Syria, Deterrence of Chemical Weapons and U.S. Policy in the Middle East – By Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 12th, 2018

Peak Fragility: Why The Middle East Is Doomed — by Ehsani

Posted by Matthew Barber on Tuesday, April 10th, 2018

Eastern Ghouta x 20, by Aron Lund

Posted by Aron Lund on Friday, April 6th, 2018

Intervention in Syrien: Sollten wir eingestehen, dass der Krieg gegen das syrische Regime verloren ist? – By Nikolaos van Dam @nikolaosvandam

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 25th, 2018

Foreign intervention in Syria: Isn’t it time to admit that the war against the Syrian regime is lost? – By Nikolaos van Dam

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 8th, 2018

Follow-Up and Correctives on Hashd al-Sha’bi Article

Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, February 15th, 2018

The Militias in Iraq, From Popular Mobilization to Political Interference

Posted by Matthew Barber on Saturday, February 10th, 2018

“When the SDF was shocked”- Azaz Opposition Activist’s Analysis of Russian-Turkish Relations, Afrin, & Why US Will Dump Kurds for Turkey

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

A Sustainable United States Policy for North Syria, the Kurds, Turkey and the Syrian Government – by Landis and Barber

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 24th, 2018

US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis 

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 15th, 2018

Beit Jann: Myths and Reality

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018