Influence Before Oil: How Iraq Bargains with a Pipeline that May Never Be Built
Prospect of new Mediterranean export routes redraws Baghdad’s relations with Ankara, Erbil, and Washington.
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Partner or Patron: Why Syria Became More Than a War to Türkiye
As Ankara looks beyond conflict management, Syria is being recast as a crossroads whose future Damascus may struggle to shape.
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Decorative Inclusion: How Syria’s Transition Is Undercutting Women
Government policy and complicity feeds an ecosystem of exclusion in political and civic life.
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Holding the Line: Syria’s Calculated Posture on the Lebanese Border
Why Damascus is containing spillover without stepping into the war.
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After the Prisons: Justice for Syria’s Former Detainees Requires Policy to Match Rethoric
Survivors of Assad’s detention system need a clear, state-led reintegration pathway from Syria’s government to achieve justice.
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Rest for the Wicked: The Risks for Lebanon in Sheltering Assad’s Fugitives
Lebanese government policy of inaction on former Syrian regime figures within its borders comes at the country’s peril.
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Mission Control: Damascus’ Home Front Strategy in Joining the Anti-ISIS Coalition
Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa attempts to toe the line between international interference and domestic fragility.
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Returned to Rubble: The EU’s Reckless Push to Deport Syrian Refugees
Prioritizing politics over practical solutions for Syrian refugee return is immoral and self-defeating for Europe.
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Crude Contest: The Peril and Promise in Syria’s Oil Standoff
How the Damascus-SDF impasse over oilfield control could define Syria’s postwar recovery
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Damascus between Ibn Arabi and Ibn Taymiyyah: a clash of visions and a lost pluralism
What is fracturing in Syria is not doctrine or ritual, but an entire model of rule and social organisation
