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Three basic factors underlie Turkey’s stance in the confused military situation in north-west Syria. The first is that Turkey’s president, R
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Turkey has asked the United States to conduct sorties along its southern border with Idlib in support for Ankara’s on-going military operations ag
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In March 2011 a few teenagers in a southern Syrian city – fired no doubt by the revolutionary fervour sweeping the Middle East at the time – daube
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Incidents this week in Israel and Scandinavia ring alarm bells. They highlight how the rise of civilizationalist leaders in democracies emp
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The optics seem evident: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is at odds with just about everybody. Mr. Erdogan is on opposite sides of R
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A decade of anti-government protests in the Arab world have thrown popular trust in the military into the garbage bin and undermined the military’s
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The Rebel-held Idlib was hit by at least 200 air strikes, mainly targeting civilians, in the past three days. United States Special Representat
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On 28 January 2020, Assad regime has recaptured a significant town in Syria’s last rebel-held territory, in an offensive that has driven tens of t
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The Syria Campaign reported that Assad's regime had broken the ceasefire brokered last week between Assad’s Russian ally and Turkey when it today
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While the so-called Islamic State (ISIS) has lost control of its statelet in Iraq and Syria, the war against the remnants of the organization is n
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