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A girl walks near a building destroyed during past fighting with Islamic State militants, in the old city of Mosul, Iraq February 1, 2022. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Order from Chaos

Not by counterterrorism alone: Root causes and the defeat of the Islamic State group

Steven Heydemann

Thursday, February 17, 2022

Asmaa Rasheed, a Syrian refugee storyteller living in Zaatari refugee camp, chats with her daughters, at the camp, in the Jordanian city of Mafraq, near the border with Syria, Jordan June 17, 2021. Picture taken June 17, 2021. REUTERS/Alaa Al Sukhni

Future Development

Syrian refugees in Jordan: A decade and counting

Omer Karasapan

Thursday, January 27, 2022

United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Geir Pedersen, meets with Syria's Foreign Minister Faisal Mekdad in Damascus, Syria September 11, 2021. REUTERS/Firas Makdesi

Order from Chaos

Zombie diplomacy and the fate of Syria’s constitutional committee

Steven Heydemann and Karam Shaar

Monday, January 24, 2022

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Events

The evolution of nonstate armed actors in the Middle East

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Youth employment and livelihood in Syria: Assessing the impact of conflict and preparing for recovery

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Syrian requiem: The civil war and its aftermath

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Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

The Syrian Jihad

By , and

2015

The Arab Awakening

By Kenneth M. Pollack, Daniel L. Byman, Akram Al-Turk, Pavel K. Baev, Michael S. Doran, Khaled Elgindy, Stephen R. Grand, Shadi Hamid, Bruce D. Jones, Suzanne Maloney, Jonathan D. Pollack, Bruce Riedel, Ruth Hanau Santini, Salman Shaikh, Ibrahim Sharqieh, Ömer Taşpınar, Shibley Telham, and Sarah E. Yerkes

2011

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Experts

Steven Heydemann

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

SHeydemann

Itamar Rabinovich

Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

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Multimedia

A vehicle blocks a road during a protest against the fall in Lebanese pound currency and mounting economic hardships in Khaldeh, Lebanon March 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mohamed Azakir

United Nations

The risk of accidental war

Jeffrey Feltman and Adam Cooper

The Mediator's Studio

Thursday, March 4, 2021

Photo: Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

Podcast Episode

What’s the significance of Biden’s first military strikes in Syria?

Michael E. O’Hanlon and Adrianna Pita

Friday, February 26, 2021

Syria

President Trump’s mad dash out of Syria

Scott R. Anderson

Thursday, December 20, 2018

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A poster depicting Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is pictured near damaged buildings, ahead of the May 26 presidential election, in Homs, Syria May 23, 2021. Picture taken May 23, 2021. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Assad’s normalization and the politics of erasure in Syria

Steven Heydemann

Thursday, January 13, 2022

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a meeting with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan in Sochi, Russia September 29, 2021. Sputnik/Vladimir Smirnov/Pool via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY.

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains

Ömer Taşpınar

Wednesday, October 13, 2021

File photo dated March 25, 2003 of United States President George W. Bush (R) speaks next to US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld (C) and US Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz (L) during a visit at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. Donald Rumsfeld, the acerbic architect of the Iraq war and a master Washington power player who served as US secretary of defense for two presidents, has died at the age of 88. Photo by Alex Wong/Pool via CNP/ABACAPRESS.COM

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

Itamar Rabinovich

Tuesday, September 7, 2021

Syrian artist Khaled Barakeh, 44, stands amid his installation "The Muted Demonstration" outside a Koblenz court during the first trial against suspected members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's security services for crimes against humanity, in Koblenz, Germany, July 1, 2020. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas

Noha Aboueldahab

Friday, July 16, 2021

Iraqi President Barham Salih and Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi meet with King Abdullah II of Jordan and Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, in Baghdad, Iraq, June 27, 2021. REUTERS/Khalid al-Mousily

Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

Katherine Harvey and Bruce Riedel

Friday, July 2, 2021

US Secretary of Defence William Perry (R), accompanied by the Saudi Ambassador to the US., Prince Bandar bin Sultan bin Abd al-Aziz Al Saud (L), survey the bomb site outside the heavily damaged apartment at the Khobar Towers housing complex for U.S. military personnel in Dhahran June 29. Nineteen American servicemen were killed, and several hundred others were injured when a bomb exploded outside the bulding on June 25.

Remembering the Khobar Towers bombing

Bruce Riedel

Monday, June 21, 2021

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Syria

Rights as realism in the Middle East

What can policymakers in countries receiving Ukrainian refugees learn from other countries’ experiences?

Forcibly displaced Ukrainians: Lessons from Syria and beyond

Turkey’s threat to derail Swedish and Finnish NATO accession reraises the Kurdish question

Reports

Reframing US Syria policy: The road to Damascus runs through Moscow

Enclave governance: How to circumvent the Assad regime and safeguard Syria’s future

How the EU and Turkey can promote self-reliance for Syrian refugees through agricultural trade

A 10-degree shift in Syria strategy

Beyond fragility: Syria and the challenges of reconstruction in fierce states

Blog Posts

Not by counterterrorism alone: Root causes and the defeat of the Islamic State group

Syrian refugees in Jordan: A decade and counting

Zombie diplomacy and the fate of Syria’s constitutional committee

Events

The evolution of nonstate armed actors in the Middle East

Youth employment and livelihood in Syria: Assessing the impact of conflict and preparing for recovery

Syrian requiem: The civil war and its aftermath

Related Books

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

The Syrian Jihad

The Arab Awakening

Experts

Steven Heydemann

Nonresident Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

Itamar Rabinovich

Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy

Multimedia

The risk of accidental war

What’s the significance of Biden’s first military strikes in Syria?

President Trump’s mad dash out of Syria

More on Syria

Assad’s normalization and the politics of erasure in Syria

Turkey’s Kurdish obsession explains Putin’s gains and US strains

Reflections on the long-term repercussions of September 11 for US policy in the Middle East

How Western policymakers can engage the new Arab diasporas

Egypt, Iraq, and Jordan: A new partnership 30 years in the making?

Remembering the Khobar Towers bombing