Syrian Civil War
Can Post-Assad Clashes In Syria Be Stopped?
Finding common ground with Turkey will be critical to Syria’s transition. Security continues to deteriorate in northeast Syria as ongoing clashes threaten the country’s transition towards an era of stabilization...
Syria’s Future Depends On The Kurds
After more than fifty years of iron-fisted rule, the Assad regime in Syria was finally overthrown a few weeks ago. Leading the rebel onslaught against the regime was Ahmed Hussein...
How Should the U.S. Navigate the Syrian Minefield?
The rapid collapse of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s Ba’athist government is the culmination of a thirteen-year civil war. Key global trends fed into Syria’s suffering: ethnic and religious hostilities, migration,...
Engaging With The New Syria: Risks and Opportunities
A jihadist rebel group wants to build and govern a stable country that is at peace with its neighbors and recognized by the international community. As much as that may...
Syria Is At A Crossroads. What’s At Stake Now?
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defense minister went up to the highest peak on Mount Hermon on December 17. This area of the mountain overlooks Lebanon, southern Syria,...
The Final Days of Bashar al-Assad
A barrage of post-mortem analyses have sought to investigate the stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, key details remain unreported, and misconceptions are beginning to circulate regarding the opposition...
The Future of Syria’s Kurds
As Syrians celebrate the end of the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad, the war-weary Syrian state faces a combustible set of challenges to its political, security, and territorial governance. Hayat...
Turkey’s Syria Conundrum
Once upon a time, Turkey’s then-prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hosted Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, for a family holiday in Turkey and planned a Middle East Union together with Syria,...
America Must Not Abandon Its Kurdish Partners In Syria
With the collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime, an ongoing Turkish-backed campaign by the Syrian National Army (SNA) rebels against the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) threatens to unravel Syria’s only...
What The Collapse Of Assad Means For The Middle East
The Syrian regime’s sudden collapse on Saturday, with the entry of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham into Damascus and Bashar al-Assad fleeing the country, came as no surprise to Moscow or Tehran....
Assad’s Collapse Should Prompt A Rethink Of The Middle East
The Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad, which collapsed over the weekend under a rebel offensive that had begun just days earlier, achieved a place of infamy that has long been...
PODCAST: The Fall of Syria’s Assad Regime (w/ Greg Priddy)
In this episode, Jacob Heilbrunn speaks with Greg Priddy, a Senior Fellow for the Middle East at the Center for the National Interest. Priddy consults for corporate and financial clients...