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  • The Things They Left Behind
    Working in Syria left us with no doubts about the extent of the evil that we were facing when it comes to describing the faltering caliphate in Baghouz. We listened to the stories, treated the victims, and interviewed women who had been married to Islamic State (IS) …
    By Miles Vining
    10 May 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • In the Hospitality of the Commander – An Analysis of a Message fro…
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    The first picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in years. It is the sixth day of Ramadan, 2014. It’s a clear day in …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    2 May 2019
  • Forever Train and Advise, Part 1: Introducing the SFAB
    Asia, Conflict, West & Central Asia
    “It’s not forever war, it’s forever train and advise” -General Mark Milley, US Army In December 2018, the Trump …
    By Adam Brayne
    13 Apr 2019
  • The Iran-Iraq War: Oman’s Foreign Policy, Part 2
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
    Today, the Sultanate of Oman is seen by many as a provider of peace and aid to much of the Middle East. The …
    By Edwin Tran
    29 Mar 2019
  • Iraq’s Diyala Faces a New Insurgency
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    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
  • An Authoritarian Marriage of Convenience
    The Syrian regime’s connection to Germany’s right-wing populists While the Assad regime has proven …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    19 Mar 2019
    Conflict, Europe, Politics, Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • 5th Corps' 5th Brigade artillery in east Idlib
    Understanding Syria’s Military Deployments in Idlib
    On March 3, 2019, Al-Qaeda-linked Ansar al-Tawhid raided a Syrian government checkpoint in Masasana, Hama, killing …
    By Gregory Waters
    10 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
  • The Sinai Insurgency Part 5; The Underground Economy
    In 2016 Hamas deployed several hundred fighters to the Gaza border as part of a deal reached with Egypt to prevent …
    By Chris Gentry
    18 Feb 2019
    Conflict, Economy, North Africa
  • Assad and militia men
    “Assad or We Burn the Country”
    The Pillars of Authoritarian Resilience Part 1 In July 2018, in southern Iraq, protests erupted against government …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    13 Feb 2019
    Conflict, Economy, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • SAS in Syria
    SAS Injured in Syria: Shouldn’t We Understand What Went Wrong?
    In early January, just a few weeks after US President Trump announced that the US-led coalition defeated IS, two …
    By Megan Karlshoej-Pedersen
    8 Feb 2019
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Hajin – The Last Stand of the Islamic State
    The failure to break the YPG in Kobani was an omen of things to come. And now, as winter neared in 2018, the SDF was on the doorstep of the "capital" the remnants of IS had declared, in Hajin, a town of less than 30,000.
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    22 Dec 2018
    Conflict, 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 & Séamus Malekafzali
    3 Dec 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Anwar al-Awlaki’s Life after Death: ISIS, al-Qaida, and a Shared L…
    There is a saying attributed to Abdullah ibn Mas’ud, a companion of the Prophet Muhammad, regarding the …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    4 Oct 2018
    Conflict, North Africa, West & Central Asia
  • Tiger Forces, Part 4: Russia’s Partner Force
    On 30 September 2015, Russia officially entered the Syrian Civil War alongside the Syrian government. Russian air, …
    By Gregory Waters
    25 Sep 2018
    Conflict, Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • Dwarfing the Giant: The Reality of Russia’s Military, Part I
    In a recent interview, Dmitri Peskov echoed a statement from Vladimir Putin, ‘the Russian armed forces had …
    By Stanimir Dobrev
    19 Sep 2018
    Conflict, Europe, North Asia, Politics
  • The Sinai Insurgency, Part 4: The Egyptian Military In Crisis
    On 14 April 2017, a video surfaced on to the Internet showing Egyptian military personnel executing 2 suspects
    By Chris Gentry
    12 Sep 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Yusuf Shaheen with Suheil al-Hassan of the Tiger Forces and Mohammad Jaber of the Desert Hawks.
    Tiger Forces, Part 3: Roots in the Desert Hawks
    Three years into the Syrian Civil War, the government had largely managed to halt rebel advances around Damascus by …
    By Gregory Waters
    6 Sep 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 & Gregory Waters
    24 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Islamic State Propaganda during the Damascus Offensive
    A series of defeats for the Islamic State (IS) through 2017 had reduced their territory in Syria to a handful of …
    By Robert Postings
    17 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Anwar al-Awlaki’s Life after Death – Part I
    Crafting the Aftermath On February 5, 2002, an American-born Islamic cleric named Anwar al-Awlaki was invited to …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    14 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • قوات النمر, الجزء الأول: جرائم الحرب التي ارتكبتها مجموعات الفهود
    هذا البحث الأول ضمن سلسلة ابحاث عن الميليشيا السورية الموالية للحكومة المعروفة باسم “قوات النمر”. سيوفر …
    By Gregory Waters
    4 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • A group of Tiger Forces fighters made almost entirely of children pose in East Ghouta, Damascus.
    Tiger Forces, Part 2: The Recruitment of Child Soldiers
    Since the Syrian government captured Aleppo in December 2016 it has continued to shorten its front lines, seemingly …
    By Gregory Waters
    3 Aug 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Tiger Forces, Part 1: The War Crimes of the “Cheetah” Groups
    This is the first of several entries on the pro-government Syrian militia known as the Tiger Forces. Each entry …
    By Gregory Waters
    23 Jul 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
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