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  • Tracking the Military Losses of the Syrian Civil War: February 2020
    If January was anything to go by, observers of the Syrian Civil War would have assumed February would be an active month. Few would have guessed the extent to which one of the war’s major regional players, Turkey, would go to assert itself in a conflict that is …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    12 March 2020
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Tracking the Military Losses of the Syrian Civil War: January 2020
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    January 2020 was remarkably violent when compared to the average monthly death toll from last year. This is due to …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    5 Feb 2020
  • 2020 in Iraq: What Happens Now?
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
    Last night, at around 10:30 PM GMT, reports began to filter out of Baghdad that a series of explosions had rocked …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    3 Jan 2020
  • The Syrian Regime Turns On Its Patrons: Rami Makhlouf’s Fall From …
    Conflict, Politics, Profiles, West & Central Asia
    As Syria’s seemingly endless civil war continues to scorch the countryside, the Syrian government has been forced …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    11 Sep 2019
  • Flames of War: Arson As a Weapon of Conflict in Syria and Iraq
    Conflict, Economy, West & Central Asia
    Beginning in the second week of May, farmers in the vicinity of the Qarachoqh Mountain began reporting unusual …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    1 Jul 2019
  • Air Conditioners and Autonomy: Basra’s Case for Federalism
    To the people of Basra, Iraq’s second largest city and the nation’s center of commerce, the air conditioner is both …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    17 May 2019
    Energy, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Iraq’s Diyala Faces a New Insurgency
    2018 was the safest year for Iraqis since the advent of the Islamic State (IS) in the summer of 2014, when the …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    22 Mar 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • In the Aftermath of Shiladze
    During a routine search and destroy mission on 24 January 2019, Turkish Air Force (TAF) attack aircraft engaged …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    27 Feb 2019
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Iraq’s New Administration and the Looming Budget Debate
    Iraq’s new Prime Minister, Adil Abdul Mahdi, has been referred to as a “gift to all” and the “ultimate compromise” …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    19 Dec 2018
    Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Compromise, Concession, and “The Railroad”
    In the late hours of 23 November 2018, a year after the last major combat action between Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    3 Dec 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • “We Kneel Only to God”: HTS Chastises Allies in New Video
    On 7 August 2018, Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) media channels announced the publication of a new propaganda piece, …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    24 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • An Analysis of Syrian NDF Media: 2014 – 2018
    Although numerous “popular committee” forces took up arms in support of the Syrian government in the …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    19 Jul 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • The Qiyam Phenomenon: Analysis of Syria’s Harakat al-Qiyam
    On an unknown date in late August of 2017, a number of small rural insurgency cells in northern Syria came together …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    18 May 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Iraqi Pariahs Seek Redemption in Upcoming Elections
    As the campaigning period for Iraq’s May 12th parliamentary elections begins in earnest, the politicians …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    4 May 2018
    Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Hayyat Tahrir al-Sham Shifts Gears with “100+ Days” Propagan…
    On February 4th, 2018, Syrian opposition organisation Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) released a new propaganda video …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    9 Mar 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • The Evolution of Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation into a Political Unit
    On December 11th, 2017, Iraqi militia founder and spiritual leader, Muqtada al-Sadr made a groundbreaking …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    20 Feb 2018
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers walk
    The “Ghost Soldier” Question in Afghanistan
    Afghanistan struggles with corruption, what lessons can it learn from Iraq's struggles with its own "ghost soldiers"?
    By Trent Schoenborn
    27 Dec 2017
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Leader Profile: Abu Ammar Taftanaz
    On November 29th, 2016, Ahrar al-Sham’s primary spokesman Abu Yusuf al-Muhajir announced quite suddenly that a …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    3 Nov 2017
    Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • Ismail Haniyeh – A New Face Of Hamas?
    After twenty years, Hamas has received a new political leader. Will he bring change to the organisation, or will he keep the status quo?
    By Trent Schoenborn
    15 Oct 2017
    Politics, West & Central Asia
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