Bashar Al-Assad
Can Syria and Lebanon Rein In Hezbollah?
If Hezbollah continues to clash with the new Syrian government, this could encourage the government to lean on other extremist militias. On March 17, Lebanon and Syria agreed to a...
Russia’s Global Losing Streak Continues in Syria
But Syria isn’t the only instance where Russian military power has taken a hit.
After Assad: Syria’s Fractured Path Forward
British journalist Patrick Seale’s book Asad of Syria: The Struggle for the Middle East (1989) offers crucial insight into the domestic, regional, and international forces that have shaped Syria’s trajectory....
The Road Out of Chaos in Syria
“Chaos,” wrote Albert Camus, constitutes “a form of servitude.” That is why true freedom must be a search for order. Yet, because order itself can be unjust and extreme, there...
The Final Days of Bashar al-Assad
A barrage of post-mortem analyses have sought to investigate the stunning collapse of Bashar al-Assad’s regime. However, key details remain unreported, and misconceptions are beginning to circulate regarding the opposition...
Washington Is the Most Consequential Player in Syria’s Next Act
The stunning collapse of the Baathist Assad regime in Syria has everyone opining on winners and losers and repercussions in the region and beyond. Accordingly, the winners’ list starts with...
The Future of Syria’s Kurds
As Syrians celebrate the end of the tyrannical regime of Bashar al-Assad, the war-weary Syrian state faces a combustible set of challenges to its political, security, and territorial governance. Hayat...
Eva Filipi: How a Czech Diplomat Cozied Up to Bashar al-Assad
Are you concerned, like many observers of foreign affairs, about Tulsi Gabbard’s opinions about Syria’s ex-dictator, Bashar al-Assad? If so, consider that for much of the past fourteen years, the...
Turkey’s Syria Conundrum
Once upon a time, Turkey’s then-prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, hosted Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, for a family holiday in Turkey and planned a Middle East Union together with Syria,...
What Does Assad’s Fall Mean For North Korea?
Since the fall of the Assad regime, the Israeli Air Force has launched attacks on numerous strategic military facilities. Included among these facilities are chemical weapons facilities and missile sites....
Why Armies Crumble
By 2017, after six years of civil war, Bashar al-Assad’s Syria had settled into a new normal. It wasn’t the placid, pre-Arab Spring normal the Assad family had enjoyed ever...
Planning A Post-Assad Syria
Over a shocking week, the brutal regime of former Syrian president Bashar al-Assad has collapsed in Syria after nearly fourteen years of civil war. Yet while the fall of the...