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Setting Up the Damascus-Rojava Negotiations There is cautious optimism about the current negotiations between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Syrian government. Under the March 10, 2025 agreement , which was backed by US mediation and under intense pressure from Turkey, an operational framework has been established to bring the two sides closer and expedite ...
The deal may pause Syria-Israel tensions, but core issues like Golan, sovereignty and trust are still missing As attention in the Middle East continues to gravitate toward unfolding crises in Gaza and the broader Arab-Israeli landscape, a less visible yet potentially ...
... autonomy or federalism. Amnesty for himself and party members, as well as allowing the PKK to become an active political party in Turkey solely under Ocalan's leadership, have been the main demands of Ocalan and his party. The developments occurring in Syria because of the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad's government make this reconciliation necessary. Stated differently, the reasons behind this reconciliation are entirely external rather than internal. In addition to the miserable economic situation Turkey ...
The West is trying to lay the groundwork for gaining leverage over the current authorities in Damascus It has been six months since the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham [ 1 ] group led by Abu Mohammad al-Julani (now known as Ahmed al-Sharaa) seized power in Syria. Shortly before that, half a world away, Donald Trump had won the U.S. presidential election, and all eyes turned to see what his foreign policy would look like. Nobody was watching more closely than Syria’s new authorities, who were well aware ...
Author: Efecan Ozdem, 1st year Master's student of HSE University - Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences The civil war in Syria, which had been ongoing for more than a decade and appeared to be frozen in recent years, unexpectedly ended with a victory for the opposition groups in December 2024. Despite aid from Russia and Iran, the Assad regime faced a sudden collapse on ...
Israel risks repeating Iran's mistakes by opening a new front in Syria while having conflicts in multiple fronts Since the outbreak of the war in Gaza following Operation "Al-Aqsa Flood" and the escalation of tensions on the Lebanese border after Israel targeted several Hezbollah leaders, Tel Aviv has begun ...
The new Syrian authorities cannot simply cut ties with Moscow. They know well that Russia can be helpful in many pragmatic ways, including counterbalancing other actors, e.g. Turkey, the U.S. and the Gulf states The first two months of the new authorities in ...
... choices. At the systemic level, the region faces two key goals which are to break free from the vicious cycle of entrenched interpretations of reality and to restore balance between formal and informal institutions, thereby strengthening statehood. Syria: The Crossroad of Middle Eastern Uncertainty
The process of lifting sanctions will be slow, and the legal mechanisms of unilateral US sanctions against Syria may remain in force for years and decades, despite political changes The change of power in Syria raises the question of possible changes to the US sanctions regime against the country. Over the past two decades, Syria has been among the countries ...
Great powers claim to be great because they cannot afford the luxury of pure situational opportunism, typical for many other international actors The sudden fall of Bashar al-Assad's regime in Syria, as far as one can judge, came as a complete surprise for all external actors, Moscow including. Of course, many Russian area studies experts for a long time warned about the growing economic and social problems in Syria, as well as about incredible ...
| U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements |
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| U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity |
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| U.S. wants to dissolve Russia |
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| U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China |
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