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Syrian Kurdistan: Can it Make a Peaceful Transition?
Kurdish Children wave Kurdish flags in Syrian Kurdistan to be. Muhammad Amin Penjweni,close friend of Ocalan, PPK leader PKK Advisor: PKK Wants to Liberate Parts of Turkey and Launch the Movement from...
View ArticleIs a Turkey-Syria conflict inevitable? – Inside Syria: Aljazeera
– Haldun Solmazturk, a retired brigadier-general “…it looks as if … the Turkish government, they do want to go to war.” – Joshua Landis, the director of the Center for Middle East Studies “Turkey is...
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“Grant Kurds an Autonomous State in Southeast Turkey,” Opinion by Evin...
Evin Cheikosman 2013 Grant Kurds an Autonomous State in Southeast Turkey Guest Opinion for Syria Comment by Evin Cheikosman, a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Syrian-Kurd...
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Oil Wars—Nusra’s Expanding Reach—Syrian Taliban
By Matthew Barber and the Syria Video team This long post contains the following sections: The Defectors Defect Will EU Oil Purchases Finance al-Qaida? Al-Musareb: Al-Nusra Punishes a Village...
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“The Turkish-Syrian Border Dispute: A View From the Past”– By Meir Zamir
The Turkish-Syrian Border Dispute: A View From the Past With Secret Documents from the Files of the Syrian Foreign Ministry By Meir Zamir A version of this article was first published in the Jerusalem...
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Gangs of Latakia: The Militiafication of the Assad Regime
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment [updated July 24, 2013] MEET ALI KAYALI The murder of the Syrian regime loyalist Mohammed Darrar Jammo in Lebanon, now said to have been an internal family affair, led...
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“Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of strength,” by Joshua...
Analysis: Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of strength By Joshua Landis for Aljazeera America, Edited by Tony Karon January 22, 2014 His army is stronger, his allies are more committed...
View ArticleJoshua Landis on ISIS, Syria & the “Great Sorting Out” in the Middle East –...
Joshua Landis on ISIS, Syria & the “Great Sorting Out” in the Middle East In conversation with Danny Postel of Denver University’s CMES This discussion is an elaboration of a short article, “The...
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The Kobani Model: Strengthening Kurdish-Arab Relations in Syria
by Nicholas A. Heras and Wladimir van Wilgenburg The Islamic State (IS) suffered a setback at the northern Syrian-Turkish border city of Kobani. This much-heralded event was important for a reason that...
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Syria in Limbo: Neither Reunification nor Partition Are Yet Possible
By Vahik Soghom, BA. AUB, MA. Univ of St. Andrews, Humboldt Univ of Berlin Is Syria headed toward some form of partition? Recent developments in the conflict give credence to a number of fears that...
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“Is Zahran Alloush in Amman?” by Aron Lund
by Aron Lund, editor of Syria in Crisis. According to rumors doing the rounds now, the Islam Army leader Mohammed Zahran Alloush has traveled to Amman to meet with foreign intelligence services and...
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Syrian Kurdistan: Can it Make a Peaceful Transition?
Kurdish Children wave Kurdish flags in Syrian Kurdistan to be. Muhammad Amin Penjweni,close friend of Ocalan, PPK leader PKK Advisor: PKK Wants to Liberate Parts of Turkey and Launch the Movement from...
View ArticleSyrian Rebel Leader Subhi al-Refai on U.S. relations with Ahrar al-Sham
by Aron Lund, editor of Syria in Crisis Subhi al-Refai is a leader of the Revolutionary Command Council (RCC), a coalition of Syrian revolutionary factions formed in December 2014. He has been kind...
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“Educating Syrian Refugees in Turkey,” by Salih Yasun
The Educational Opportunities and Challenges of Syrian Refugee Students in Turkey: Temporary Education Centers and Beyond By Salih Yasun* For Syria Comment, July 25, 2016 Almost 3,000,000 Syrians have...
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“What the Rebel Loss of Aleppo Will Mean for Syria,” by Landis, Heras, Lund &...
What the Rebel Loss of Aleppo will mean for Syria? Four Analysts respond – Joshua Landis, Nicholas Heras, Aron Lund and Ammar Abdulhamid Aleppo Reenforces Regime Claims to Be Able to Retake Most of...
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“Turkey’s Syria Intervention,” by Joshua Landis
Turkey’s Syria Intervention By Joshua Landis August 28, 2016 I answer questions asked me by a Turkish journalist. Has Turkey established a No Fly Zone over the Azaz-Jarablus pocket? Turkey has...
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DAM WARS: How Water Scarcity Helped Create ISIS – by Quentin de Pimodan
DAM WARS: How Water Scarcity Helped Create ISIS by Quentin de Pimodan December 12, 2016 Quentin de Pimodan sent me this interesting paper on ISIS and water wars. He writes: I have finally completed my...
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America’s Failure – and Russia and Iran’s Success – in Syria’s Cataclysmic...
America’s Failure — and Russia and Iran’s Success — in Syria’s Cataclysmic Civil War By Joshua Landis interviewed by John Judis for TPM, where this was published on January 10, 2017 By JOHN JUDIS –...
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The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in Syria – by @ErikaSolomon
This is a wonderful and important article by Erika Solomon. @ErikaSolomon for the Financial Times. I have cut out sections, marked with a “….” The rise and fall of a CIA-backed rebel commander in...
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Yes, Syrian Kurds Have Committed War Crimes – Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn...
Roy Gutman Responds to Aymenn al-Tamimi on “Have the Syrian Kurds Committed War Crimes?” By Roy Gutman – @Roy_Gutman For Syria Comment – February 12, 2017 Any journalist covering a controversial topic...
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