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

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

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

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

The Militias in Iraq, From Popular Mobilization to Political Interference

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

Will the U.S. Abandon the Kurds of Syria Once ISIS is Destroyed? by Landis, Itani, Simon

Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’

The Iran-Syria Alliance: Sectarianism or Realpolitik? — by Mohammad Ataie

Syria in Limbo: Neither Reunification nor Partition Are Yet Possible

The National Ideological Resistance in Syria: A ‘Syrian Hezbollah’ Brand

Problems for Syrians in Egypt; News from Kurdish North; Looting & Oil; Round-up

Clerics in Egypt Call for Global Jihad Against Regime’s Shiite Allies, Egypt Cuts Syria Ties

Round Up: Qusayr, Hezbollah, Regional Sectarianism, Ehsani on Economics, Foreign Jihadis Behead & Kill for Blasphemy, US Intervention Proposal

Turkey Engulfed in Protests, Syria Conflict Worries Turkish Alevis, Syrian Turkomen Support Opposition

Islamic State Declared in Syria

“The Hamas-Syrian Split, a Dilemma for Iran’s Palestinian Strategy,” By Mohammad Ataie