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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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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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
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Here We Flow Again: Beirut Water Project Set to Keep Taps Dry and Debts High
Desperate for water, Lebanon may sign on to a project that brings debt today and dams tomorrow.
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Rewired Influence: Syria’s Power Crisis Invites Geopolitical Tug-of-War
Damascus must choose between foreign dependency and energy sovereignty in redeveloping its energy sector.
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Echoes of Assad: Will the New Syria Escape the Authoritarianism of the Old?
The authorities now controlling Damascus have been sending mixed signals about the future direction of Syria.
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Rebel Roulette: Turkey’s Big Gamble on Syrian Opposition Offensive
Erdoğan turns the tables on Assad after years of frustration.
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Broken Branches: Lebanon’s Disappearing Forests
Rapid urbanisation, illegal logging, and wildfires whittling away at country’s wooded areas
