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Ukrainian refugees form a long line to cross the borderline in Medyka, southeastern Poland on March 12, 2022. More than 1.4 million Ukrainians have crossed into Poland since last two weeks, the largest influx the country has seen since World War II. ( The Yomiuri Shimbun )

Up Front

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

Dany Bahar

Monday, July 18, 2022

Future Development

Forcibly displaced Ukrainians: Lessons from Syria and beyond

Omer Karasapan

Tuesday, June 21, 2022

Ibrahim Kalin, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan's spokesman and chief foreign policy adviser, meets with Finnish delegation led by the State Secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Jukka Salovaara, amid Russia's invasion of Ukraine, in Ankara, Turkey May 25, 2022. Presidential Press Office/Handout via REUTERS

Order from Chaos

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

Ranj Alaaldin

Friday, June 3, 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

12:00 AM - 12:00 AM AST

Syrian requiem: The civil war and its aftermath

10:00 AM - 11:00 AM EST

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Related Books

Road Warriors: Foreign Fighters in the Armies of Jihad

By Daniel L. Byman

2019

The Syrian Jihad

By , and

2015

After the Spring: Economic Transitions in the Arab World

By Magdi Amin, Ragui Assaad, Nazar al-Baharna, Kemal Derviş, Raj M. Desai, Navtej Dhillon, Ahmed Galal, Hafez Ghanem, Carol Graham, Daniel Kaufmann, Homi Kharas, John Page, Djavad Salehi Isfahani, Katherine Sierra, and Tarik M. Yousef

2012

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Experts

Aslı Aydıntaşbaş

Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project

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Steven Heydemann

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

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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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More on Syria

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

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

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

Zombie diplomacy and the fate of Syria’s constitutional committee

Steven Heydemann and Karam Shaar

Monday, January 24, 2022

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

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Reports

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

Visiting Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center on the United States and Europe, The Turkey Project

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

Distinguished Fellow - Foreign Policy