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  • 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 patterns of Islamic State (IS) movement to local authorities, who have been struggling to clamp down on a low-intensity insurgency in the region for the …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    1 July 2019
    Conflict, Economy, West & Central Asia
  • Understanding Syria’s Military Deployments in Idlib
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    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
  • Compromise, Concession, and “The Railroad”
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    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
  • Tiger Forces, Part 3: Roots in the Desert Hawks
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    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
  • The Art of Constantly Changing Narratives – Part I: Russia
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    To anyone familiar with the media landscape surrounding Syria, Russia’s presence in the war has always been …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    12 Apr 2018
  • 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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