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Local Dynamics

Issue 33 – March 2026

Autonomy under siege

Kurdish leaders face increasing polarisation at home as they attempt to hold back an emboldened Damascus

Issue 33 – March 2026

Handarat after the fall

A shattered refugee camp becomes emblematic of the Palestinian ordeal in Syria

Issue 32 – February 2026

New Look Shabiha

A Sunni town’s uneasy reinvention after years as a regime stronghold

Issue 31 – January 2026

Faith, fear, and federalism

What the controversy over Alawite cleric Ghazal Ghazal is really about

Issue 30 – December 2025

What’s left of the SNA

Syrian National Army factions are dispersed but remain too useful to demobilise

Issue 29 – November 2025

City between worlds

Aleppo is where the old Syria ends and the new begins

Issue 29 – November 2025

The last banner of Zaynab

Syria’s Shia find themselves tolerated but subdued

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Issue 28 – September 2025

The (sub)National Guard

The Druze of Syria now have an army

Issue 27 – August 2025

Lions of Syria

Damascus’ mobilisation of tribes and monarchial ambitions

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Issue 26 – July 2025

How Aleppo fell

Iran’s defence of the city faltered when a most trusted brigade defected

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Issue 25 – June 2025

Terrorism reawakened

Islamic State is a growing (and useful) threat

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Issue 24 – May 2025

Sedition on the coast

How Iran attempted to turn Syria’s coastal region into a protectorate

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Issue 23 – April 2025

Damascus re-born

The Syrian capital is embracing its newfound identity

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Issue 22 – March 2025

Tanks and cash

Israel’s hearts and minds campaign in southern Syria

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Issue 21 – February 2025

Waiting, waiting

Arabs from northeast Syria demand liberation from SDF rule

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Issue 18 – November 2024

Safe zone reloaded

Turkish plans would see Aleppo city encircled

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Issue 17 – October 2024

Aleppo here we come

Rebels mull options for new offensive

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Issue 16 – September 2024

Southern (dis)comfort

Daraa’s fragmented security points to Syria’s decentralised future

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Issue 14 – July 2024

Idlib rising

The irresistible return of politics to the northwest

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Issue 10 – March 2024

Rise and decline of Tayy

One tribe’s fortunes reveals much about northeast Syria

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Issue 8 – January 2024

Jolani battles dissidents

HTS purge sign of shifting policy

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Issue 7 – December 2023

Brothers in arms

Plot twists in the Deir Ezzor tribal revolt

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Issue 6 – November 2023

No way out

Why Alawites don’t turn against Assad

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Issue 6 – November 2023

Shadow wars

Daraa’s anti-trafficking vigilantes

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Issue 5 – October 2023

A revolt in need of a lifeline

Suwayda mulls its options

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Issue 5 – October 2023

Death from above?

Doubts about the military college massacre

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Issue 4 – September 2023

Fraying at the edges

Suwayda and Deir Ezzor rise up

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Issue 4 – September 2023

Great Arab Revolt redux

Tribal power play in eastern Syria

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Issue 4 – September 2023

The Jolani tax

International legitimacy comes at a price

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Issue 3 – August 2023

Eastern approaches

Washington and Riyadh consider military options

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Issue 3 – August 2023

Enemies with benefits

Convergence between northwest and northeast Syria

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Issue 2 – July 2023

High on promise

The phony focus on Captagon

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Issue 2 – July 2023

The best of bad options

Erdogan’s third way on refugees