The United States Is Done Caring About Syria
BY STEVEN A. COOK Source Link If a congressionally mandated report on a vexing foreign-policy issue is published in Washington in 2019, will anybody pay attention? Probably not, especially these days…
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The Syrian Civil War Might Be Ending, but the Crisis Will Live On
Source Link The Syrian civil war that has decimated the country for eight years now, provoking a regional humanitarian crisis and drawing in actors ranging from the United States to Russia, appears t…
Syria Study Group Final Report
Source Link The United States cannot avoid or ignore the conflict in Syria. From the outset of hostilities, minimizing American involvement in the war and safeguarding U.S. national security interest…
On Syria, Washington cannot simply throw up its hands
Mara Karlin Source Link Over the last year or so, I was honored to serve as one of 12 appointees to the bipartisan, congressionally-mandated Syria Study Group . We were tasked with examining and maki…
Turkey, Russia, Iran agree steps to ease tensions in Syria's Idlib despite lingering differences
Vladimir Soldatkin, Tuvan Gumrukcu, Ece Toksabay Source Link ANKARA (Reuters) - The leaders of Turkey, Russia and Iran meeting in Ankara on Monday agreed to try to ease tensions in northwest Syria’s…
How did the Syrian Civil War Become a Proxy War?
Source Link by Olivia Giles And will it ever end? If we were to compare Syria’s condition ten years ago to its current state, one would be shocked at the stark contrast. The idea of how once-bustlin…
The Campaign between Wars: Faster, Higher, Fiercer?
Source Link Amos Yadlin, Assaf Orion Strikes reportedly carried out by Israel over the past month in Iraq, and in recent days in Syria and Lebanon, are part of the "campaign between wars" (…
The Future of Northeast Syria
Author Aaron Stein Source Link Given eight years of civil war, the divergent interests of local and powerful external actors and the international intervention against the Islamic State, what may th…
Hard Truths in Syria
By Brett McGurk Source Link Over the last four years, I helped lead the global response to the rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) —an effort that succeeded in destroying an ISIS “caliphate” in the hea…