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  • The Starvation State
    While historically a grain exporting country, on the eve of its civil war, Syria had been importing grain for a couple of years. This unusual situation was the result of natural as well as artificial economic factors, and has only been exacerbated by the ongoing civil …
    By Stanimir Dobrev
    13 May 2020
    Conflict, Economy, 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
  • Aiding & Abetting
    On the Limits of Humanitarian Work in Syria Food is a weapon – a very effective weapon. People don’t …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    22 Oct 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Members of the Border Guards deployed in central Syria.
    Syria’s Border Guards: From Auxiliary to Frontlines
    On June 9, 2019, rebel inghimashi fighters stormed a Syrian regime position in Jebal Turkmen, Latakia, killing at …
    By Gregory Waters
    25 Sep 2019
    Conflict, Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • The Syrian Regime Turns On Its Patrons: Rami Makhlouf’s Fall From …
    As Syria’s seemingly endless civil war continues to scorch the countryside, the Syrian government has been forced …
    By Trent Schoenborn
    11 Sep 2019
    Conflict, Politics, Profiles, West & Central Asia
  • The 25th Division: Syria’s Tiger Forces get Rebranded
    On the evening of August 28, members and commanders of Syria’s Tiger Forces began posting on Facebook variations of …
    By Gregory Waters
    30 Aug 2019
    News and Analysis, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • 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
  • Governance by Corruption & Extortion
    The Pillars of Authoritarian Resilience Part 2 The most part are too busy in getting food, and the rest too …
    By Sascha Ruppert
    25 Jun 2019
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • In the Hospitality of the Commander
    An Analysis of a Message from Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi The first picture of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in years. It is the …
    By Séamus Malekafzali
    2 May 2019
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • 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
  • 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 Hereafter
    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
  • The Fight for the Syrian Economy Appears Lost
    While on the battlefield Damascus and its allies seem to be achieving victory after victory, the fight for the …
    By Stanimir Dobrev
    21 Aug 2018
    Economy, 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
  • 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
  • The Contradictions of Northern Syria
    This article provides an overview of the geopolitical situation in Northern Syria. We’ll look at the history …
    By Sebastian Gonano
    5 Jun 2018
    Conflict, Politics, 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
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