Aleppo is paying for Russia’s imagined global threat
Russia's brutality in Aleppo reflects Moscow’s perspective on warfighting, its military capabilities, and its sense of threat.
Russia's brutality in Aleppo reflects Moscow’s perspective on warfighting, its military capabilities, and its sense of threat.
The intervention signals an unexpected convergence of a significant number of actors who have found common cause in working against the Kurds
Turkey's constrained military and inward focus could soften its 'Assad must go' policy.
The battle to retake the Iraqi city of Fallujah has begun: 20,000 Iraqi soldiers, backed by US air power and advisers, are attempting to expel some 800 to 1,000 ISIS fighters
Despite its limitations, the current US-Russian brokered ceasefire offers the best chance of moving the Syria conflict towards a poltiical resolution
Turkey has entered open war with ISIS and is attempting to stifle Kurdish gains in norther Syria
Having improved the regime's position on the ground, Russia now looks set to move forward its own political track
The Syria crisis shows no signs of abating and the numbers in need continue to increase on a dramatic scale. Of a pre-war population…
Civilian protection, humanitarian access and freezing the conflict must be priority in Aleppo and Syria to avert escalation to even more dangerous levels
Unless domestic factions can make necessary trade-offs to overcome this impasse, Lebanon’s resilience will be tested more than ever