The crisis in Syria is at a crossroads. This is not because the underlying dynamics of the conflict have changed in any big way. As it has been for the last couple years, the Syrian government has regained control over...
Syrian regime forces, backed by Russia, have scaled up their attacks in what is the last part of Syria controlled by rebel forces. Over the last several weeks an estimated 140,000 people have been displaced by escalating fighting in Idlib,...
The presidents of Turkey, Iran and Russia met in Tehran today to discuss the situation in Idlib. This is the province of Syria to which millions of civilians and some fighters have fled as their cities and towns fell to...
The Syrian war may be entering its final phase. Rebel fighters from various factions are now concentrated in Idlib, in northern Syria. Idlib is the place to which civilians and members of armed groups were permitted to escape as part...
UN Peacekeepers have been stationed in the Golan Heights since 1974. The mission, known as the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force, or UNDOF, deployed to the border region of Israel and Syria following a ceasefire in May 1974. Technically, UNDOF...
UPDATE: The Security Council is meeting again today, potentially on separate resolutions offered by the United States and Russia. The key difference between the two resolutions is that the United States wants an independent international investigation to be able to...
The White House sought to address some confusion over President Trump’s suggestion yesterday that American troops should quit Syria. The statement released this morning was still somewhat cryptic, but it did unambiguously call on the United Nations to “work towards...
The conflict in Syria has entered a new phase. ISIS has been defeated, yet in many ways the war is metastasizing. In Eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of Damascus, the war is as brutal as ever. After days of...
Over the last several weeks, ISIS has been systematically losing territory. Its last stronghold in Iraq, the city of Hawija, was liberated in early October. A few weeks later, ISIS’ de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria fell to US-backed forces. ISIS...