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Archives: Syria
Trump to al-Sisi: Syria’s al-Assad is a Brave, steadfast Man (Beirut Report)
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - al-Diyar (The Lands) [Beirut] reports on what Egyptian officials allegedly leaked about the telephone conversation between Donald J. Trump and Egyptian president `Abdel…
Trump to CIA: We now have 2nd Chance to take Iraq’s Oil
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Donald Trump has had a contentious relationship with the US intelligence community, in part over their conviction that the Russian Federation attempted to…
Even after Russia included US in Syria Peace Talks, can they Succeed?
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - The Middle East keeps going its way as usual, continuously creating global news headlines. Two such current and hot news events are the…
Is the next big US-Iran Conflict control of Iraq-Syria Border?
Mustafa Habib| (Niqash.org) | - - The border of Syria and Iraq looks likely to be the next testing ground for the newly conciliatory – yet unsteady – relationship between Iran and…
America’s Major Challenges in Middle East Policy, 2017
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The incoming Trump administration is riven by a profound division between those determined to avoid deep entanglements in the Middle East, such as…
Top Eight Mideast Stories of 2016 that Shaped our World
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - In 2016, the Middle East continued to be a major focus of the US public, and it often came up in the primary…
Syria: Now that the US has Failed, what does 2017 Hold?
By Christopher R. Hill | (Project Syndicate) | - - DENVER – The end of the fighting in Aleppo will not end the Syrian war, despite the countrywide ceasefire that has just…
Erdogan-Putin Syria Bromance as Turkey accuses US of backing ISIL
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Turkey and Russia are announcing they have reached a cease-fire deal in Syria. The ceasefire reached in Aleppo will be continued past December…
With Fall of Aleppo, will a Russo-Iranian Middle East challenge Trump?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Thursday, the Syrian government announced that the last of those who wanted to be evacuated from the East Aleppo pocket had been…
Hard Truth: Aleppo Rebels weren’t defeated by Main Force but b/c they alienated Syrians
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Syria was in a better position to attain peace last spring, when a ceasefire had unexpected success. It would have been better if…
It’s the Economy, Stupid: Ending ‘Religious’ Violence in the Middle East
Moha Ennaji | (Project Syndicate) | - - FEZ – The escalation of radicalism, violence, and civil wars in the Middle East since the so-called Arab Spring revolts began in 2010 has…
After Aleppo, Russians prepare to defy Trump re: their Iran Alliance
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - the left-leaning Lebanese newspaper al-Safir [Ambassador] reports that the armed resistance to the regime of Bashar al-Assad in the East Aleppo pocket is…
Syria’s Aleppo Falling: The Government Russia actually Turned
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - By Monday morning Syrian time, the large and important district of Shaikh Saeed in southeastern Aleppo had completely fallen to the Syrian Arab…
2016 ‘One of worst Years in History for Children’: UNICEF
By Matthew Tempest | ( EurActiv.com ) | - - Syria: Abdulaziz (in red), 10, whose father was killed in the continuing conflict, spends time with his friends at the ‘Land of…
Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem could be resolved by a partition of…
More districts of East Aleppo fall to Regime & Militia Allies
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Both regime sources and the Britain-based Syria Observatory said Tuesday that the Syrian Arab Army and its Shiite militia allies from Lebanon and…
Russia/Syria: War Crimes in Month of Bombing Aleppo
Human Rights Watch (New York) – The Russian-Syrian coalition committed war crimes during a month-long aerial bombing campaign of opposition-controlled territory in Aleppo in September and October 2016. The Violations Documentation Center,…
Russian Pundit: Fall of East Aleppo a Geopolitical Turning Point toward Multi-polar World
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - By Friday evening outside observers like Rami Abdelrahman of the Syria Observatory in the UK were saying that even more of the East…