Learning the right lessons from Aleppo
We may need to lower our expectations and recognise the inherent limitations and trade-offs of seeking to reduce atrocities overseas
We may need to lower our expectations and recognise the inherent limitations and trade-offs of seeking to reduce atrocities overseas
There is no longer any real hope of deposing Assad. Europe must instead work towards an ugly deal that salvages something for the Syrian people.
ECFR Council members call for European states to provide emergency airlift services in Aleppo and implement additional sanctions on Russia for its complicity in war crimes
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.
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
Keeping the political track alive is the only way to break cycle of death and devastation in Syria as regime closes on rebel stronghold