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  • 4th Division Golan launchers outside Kabani
    Battle for Kabani: A Rare Defeat for the Syrian Army in 2019
    On December 29, 2019, the 4th Division announced that “after achieving the desired goals in Latakia” it would be redeploying its units to Aleppo “for new victories.” It is unclear what goals the 4th Division had achieved in Latakia. Since 1 May …
    By Gregory Waters
    6 January 2020
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • Aiding & Abetting
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
    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
  • Syria’s Border Guards: From Auxiliary to Frontlines
    Conflict, Profiles, West & Central Asia
    On June 9, 2019, rebel inghimashi fighters stormed a Syrian regime position in Jebal Turkmen, Latakia, killing at …
    By Gregory Waters
    25 Sep 2019
  • 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
  • The 25th Division: Syria’s Tiger Forces get Rebranded
    News and Analysis, Politics, West & Central Asia
    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
  • 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 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
  • 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
  • An Analysis of the Islamic State’s SVBIED Use in Raqqa
    Perhaps the most fearsome of all of the Islamic State’s (IS) weapons is the suicide vehicle borne improvised …
    By Robert Postings
    11 May 2018
    Conflict, West & Central Asia
  • 2018 East Ghouta Offensive: the Cost of Securing Damascus
    On February 18th, 2018, the Syrian government began it’s offensive to recapture all of rebel-held East …
    By Gregory Waters
    2 May 2018
    Conflict, Regions, West & Central Asia
  • The Origins of Dictatorship in Syria
    When analysing the Syrian conflict, the historical context is an area often approached superficially, with …
    By Erik Markus Kannike
    24 Apr 2018
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
  • The Growing Role of Reconciled Rebels in Syria
    In 2013, two years after the first anti-government protests began in Dara’a, the Syrian Arab Army (SAA) was …
    By Gregory Waters
    21 Apr 2018
    Conflict, Politics, West & Central Asia
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