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.
Syria
Turkey joins the fray: What the Turkish invasion means for the Syrian civil war
The intervention signals an unexpected convergence of a significant number of actors who have found common cause in working against the Kurds
Turkey’s failed coup could be good news for international action on Syria
Turkey's constrained military and inward focus could soften its 'Assad must go' policy.
Saving Syria’s ceasefire
Despite its limitations, the current US-Russian brokered ceasefire offers the best chance of moving the Syria conflict towards a poltiical resolution
Turkish-Kurdish race to seize ISIS territory
Turkey has entered open war with ISIS and is attempting to stifle Kurdish gains in norther Syria
Russia’s Syria withdrawal: a game changer?
Having improved the regime's position on the ground, Russia now looks set to move forward its own political track
Aleppo under siege
Keeping the political track alive is the only way to break cycle of death and devastation in Syria as regime closes on rebel stronghold
Cameron’s case for Syria strikes falls short
In the absence of an adequate political and diplomatic strategy, bombing in Syria may do more harm than good
What can we expect from Russia in Syria?
Russia's entry into the Syria conflict was a curveball for the West – but what does it want?
Russia’s Syrian intervention
Snap analysis on the nature of Russia's involvement from an ECFR Syria expert