Media mentions – Syria / Iraq / Lebanon
The Europeans clearly followed President Trump’s decision-making, and the US decision to lift full sanctions resulted in the Europeans doJuling the same a few days later
The [HTS] group had long cultivated a close working relationship with Ankara because the rebels controlled Idlib, a province on the Turkish border in northern Syria
Aslı Aydıntaşbaş on the relationship between Syrian rebel group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) and the Turkish government
Moving towards reconstruction and redevelopment, you would need US and European action in tandem
Julien Barnes-Dacey on the EU lifting sanctions on Syria and the importance of the US following suit
The dire state of the economy is clearly one of the biggest challenges facing a positive transition
The EU has been in the direct line of fire of the Syrian conflict in terms of migration, terrorism and wider instability, so there is a clear interest in seeing a stabilised Syria moving forward
If we delay the easing of sanctions and the support that we provide to Syria because we want to condition that with a political transition which will take years, we risk to derail the process
In his commentary, Hamzeh Hadad argues that Iraq’s pursuit of security and sovereignty is deeply intertwined with the consequences of Assad’s collapse in Syria
