Syria

People stand on a Turkish military vehicle during a protest against an agreement on joint Russian and Turkish patrols, at M4 highway in Idlib province, Syria, March 15, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Syria

Turkey’s intervention in Syria and the art of coercive diplomacy

Ranj Alaaldin

Saturday, March 21, 2020

Internally displaced Syrians from western Aleppo countryside, ride on the back of a truck with belongings in Hazano near Idlib, Syria, February 11, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Order from Chaos

Turkey’s unpalatable choices in Syria

Galip Dalay

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Russian President Vladimir Putin arrive a ceremony marking the formal launch of the TurkStream pipeline which will carry Russian natural gas to southern Europe through Turkey, in Istanbul, Turkey, January 8, 2020. REUTERS/Umit Bektas - RC2QBE9PIRVM

Op-Ed

The Idlib debacle is a reality check for Turkish-Russian relations

Galip Dalay

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Report

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

Kemal Kirişci

Monday, February 3, 2020

Reports

Syria

A 10-degree shift in Syria strategy

Ranj Alaaldin, Jason Fritz, Steven Heydemann, Bruce Jones, and Michael E. O’Hanlon

September 2018

Syria

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

Steven Heydemann

June 2018

People walk with their belongings as they flee the rebel-held town of Hammouriyeh, in the village of Beit Sawa, eastern Ghouta, Syria March 15, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki

Report

Writing atrocities: Syrian civil society and transitional justice

Noha Aboueldahab

Monday, May 7, 2018

Turkey

The West’s Turkey conundrum

Amanda Sloat

February 2018

An Israeli soldier guards an observation tower, July 17, 2005. REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic GOT/mk (ISRAEL POLITICS CONFLICT) BEST QUALITY AVAILABLE - RTXJU89

Intelligence Community

Enigma: The anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure almost 45 years ago

Bruce Riedel

September 25, 2017

Blog Posts

Syrian refugees pick up cotton from a field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province, November 3, 2012. Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey's southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike on Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay. Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cottons pickers. Picture taken November 3, 2012. REUTERS/Murad Sezer (TURKEY - Tags: AGRICULTURE POLITICS) - GM1E8B509FD01

Order from Chaos

How to leverage trade concessions to improve refugee self-reliance and host community resilience

Kemal Kirişci

Sunday, December 15, 2019

Kurdish fighters gesture while carrying their parties' flags in Tel Abyad of Raqqa governorate after they said they took control of the area June 15, 2015. Syrian Kurdish-led forces said they had captured a town at the Turkish border from Islamic State on Monday, driving it away from the frontier in an advance backed by U.S.-led air strikes that has thrust deep into the jihadists' Syria stronghold. The capture of Tel Abyad by the Kurdish YPG and smaller Syrian rebel groups means the Syrian Kurds effectively control some 400 km (250 miles) of the Syrian-Turkish border that has been a conduit for foreign fighters joining Islamic State. Picture taken June 15, 2015. REUTERS/Rodi Said TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - GF10000129146

Order from Chaos

ISIS and the false dawn of Kurdish statehood

Ömer Taşpınar

Friday, December 13, 2019

A tractor cleans debris outside a damaged building in Mezzah, Damascus, Syria November 12, 2019. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RC2J9D9H43XW

Order from Chaos

What can we learn from the escalating Israeli raids in Syria?

Eyal Tsir Cohen and Kevin Huggard

Friday, December 6, 2019

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Syria

President Trump’s mad dash out of Syria

Scott R. Anderson

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Men walk through debris in the center of Afrin, Syria March 24, 2018. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi - RC1850B1E4F0

Podcast Episode

The politics of reconstruction in Syria

Steven Heydemann, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Adrianna Pita

Wednesday, June 6, 2018

Syria

What are the United States’ options in Syria?

Ranj Alaaldin

Thursday, April 26, 2018

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Syria

Turkey’s intervention in Syria and the art of coercive diplomacy

Turkey’s unpalatable choices in Syria

The Idlib debacle is a reality check for Turkish-Russian relations

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

Reports

A 10-degree shift in Syria strategy

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

Writing atrocities: Syrian civil society and transitional justice

The West’s Turkey conundrum

Enigma: The anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure almost 45 years ago

Blog Posts

How to leverage trade concessions to improve refugee self-reliance and host community resilience

ISIS and the false dawn of Kurdish statehood

What can we learn from the escalating Israeli raids in Syria?

Events

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