A one-year extension to the current aid arrangements would be no one’s first choice—but would ensure civilians in Idlib continue to receive help
The next international showdown on Syria is quickly coming into view. After ten years of conflict, Bashar al-Assad may have won the war, but much is left to be done to win the peace. This is nowhere more so than in the province of Idlib, which is home to nearly 3 million people who now ...
... The mechanisms ... to manage the risks of escalation that existed in the past no longer seem to be present” (pp. 188-189) [
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]. Cohen cautions that the new Cold War is “more fraught with the possibility of a hot war”—on three fronts: Ukraine, Syria, and the Baltics (p. 67)—and that the only way to avert a hot war or “another prolonged Cold War” is through a new U.S.-Russia “détente,” i.e. the expansion of cooperation and radical reduction in the possibility of violent and potentially ...
... was attended by leading Russian and European experts
On March 15, 2021, the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) and the European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) held an off-limits online workshop on the situation in the Middle East and Syria. The event was attended by leading Russian and European experts.
Opening remarks were made by Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, and Julien Barnes-Dacey, Director of the Middle East and North Africa Program at the European Council on Foreign ...
What kind of Syria would we like to see and might we see by March 2031?
On 6 March 2011, the local security services in the small town of Daraa, southern Syria, detained fifteen teenagers painting anti-government graffiti on fences and buildings. During the subsequent ...
Report 65/2021
Report 65/2021
The report analyses the application of foreign sanctions against Russian citizens, companies and economy sectors. It also considers global trends in the use of sanctions and restrictive measures against Russia within individual areas (the “Ukrainian package,” sanctions against pipeline projects, “cyber sanctions,” etc.). The report is based on Sanctions Event Database compiled by the Russian International Affairs Council. It contains data for 2020 into early 2021....
Syria will most likely remain part of US regional policies and subordinate to US dealings with Iran, Turkey and Russia
With the new US administration in the White House, there are rather lofty expectations about a change in the American Middle East ...
... circumstances and atmosphere that accompanied his "early" resignation when he was the U.S. special presidential envoy for the global coalition against "ISIS" in late 2018, when he protested the decision to withdraw U.S. forces from Syria.
After the Storm: Post-Pandemic Trends in the Southern Mediterranean. RIAC and ISPI Joint Report
Former President Donald Trump commented on McGurk's resignation, “Brett McGurk, who I do not know, was appointed by President Obama in 2015. Was supposed ...
On December 23, 2020, the American University Washington College of Law hosted a webinar timed to the 10th Anniversary of the Syrian Civil War.
On December 23, 2020, the American University Washington College of Law hosted a webinar timed to the 10th Anniversary of the Syrian Civil War.
The participants discussed the history of one of the longest and most violent civil conflicts ...
... Eastern crises and to which extent the interests of Moscow and Tehran overlap or contradict each other. Some of the key issues of the political situation in the region were assessed, such as the situation in Idlib, the prospects for a political process in Syria, Israel’s role in the region’s future, the path to Syria’s reconstruction and the impact of U.S. policies on the emerging new order in the Middle East. Both Russia and the Islamic Republic of Iran regard each other as necessary components ...
On December 14, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the OMRAN Center for Strategic Studies (OMRAN) held a closed workshop on political dialog in Syria following 2021 presidential elections
On December 14, 2020, Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC) together with the OMRAN Center for Strategic Studies (OMRAN) held a closed workshop on political dialog in Syria following 2021 presidential ...
