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  • Coffins of Syrian Arab Army soldiers brought to the Latakia Hospital after being killed in clashes, November 2019.
    The Military Casualties of the Syrian Civil War in 2020
    The long-burning civil war in Syria, now heading into its tenth year, has arguably reached an impasse in which the regime has won a military victory but has failed to regain control of the entire country, and is now facing crippling economic and social crises. The …
    By Trent Schoenborn & Gregory Waters
    18 January 2021
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • The Dynamics of Tyranny
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
    On the Necessity of Lasting Antagonism: “Terror is not the same as violence; it is, rather, the form of …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    22 Mar 2020
  • Tracking the Military Losses of the Syrian Civil War: February 2020
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
    If January was anything to go by, observers of the Syrian Civil War would have assumed February would be an active …
    By Trent Schoenborn & Gregory Waters
    12 Mar 2020
  • 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 & Gregory Waters
    5 Feb 2020
  • Battle for Kabani: A Rare Defeat for the Syrian Army in 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    On December 29, 2019, the 4th Division announced that “after achieving the desired goals in Latakia” it …
    By Gregory Waters
    6 Jan 2020
  • Flames of War: Arson As a Weapon of Conflict in Syria and Iraq
    Beginning in the second week of May, farmers in the vicinity of the Qarachoqh Mountain began reporting unusual …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    1 Jul 2019
    Conflict, Economy, 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Art of Constantly Changing Narratives – Part I: Russia
    To anyone familiar with the media landscape surrounding Syria, Russia’s presence in the war has always been …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    12 Apr 2018
    Conflict, 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 & Gregory Waters
    9 Mar 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Jableh’s Sacrifice: Testing the Limits of Syrian Loyalty
    Damascus faces growing resentment as hardships burden the Syrian regime's war-weary coastal heartlands.
    By Gregory Waters
    20 Dec 2017
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • The Promise of Local Councils: A Future for Syrians, by Syrians
    The Syrian government has not controlled large swathes of the country for nearly six years. In its absence, …
    By Gregory Waters
    21 Nov 2017
    Politics, West & Central Asia
  • Abu Jaber and Hayat Tahrir al Sham, Part 3: The Failure of Blood
    In Part 1 of this series I discussed how the formation of HTS was a response to rebel failures in 2016 and the …
    By Gregory Waters
    13 Nov 2017
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
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