Syria

Anti-government protesters celebrate inside Tahrir Square after the announcement of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak's resignation in Cairo February 11, 2011. Egypt's Vice President Omar Suleiman said on Friday that Mubarak had bowed to pressure from the street and had resigned, handing power to the army, he said in a televised statement. REUTERS/Dylan Martinez (EGYPT - Tags: POLITICS CIVIL UNREST IMAGES OF THE DAY)

Middle East & North Africa

For the Middle East, the Arab Spring was a rare chance to control its own fate

Daniel L. Byman

Friday, June 26, 2020

FILE PHOTO: A picture of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seen on a door of a butcher shop, during a lockdown to prevent the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Damascus, Syria April 22, 2020. Picture taken April 22, 2020. REUTERS/Yamam Al Shaar/File Photo

Order from Chaos

The Caesar Act and a pathway out of conflict in Syria

Steven Heydemann

Friday, June 19, 2020

A woman walks past damaged buildings with her child in the rebel-held Idlib city, Syria April 19, 2020. Picture taken April 19, 2020. REUTERS/Khalil Ashawi

Op-Ed

Pandemic politics: Will COVID-19 exacerbate or mitigate conflicts in Libya and Syria?

Wednesday, May 20, 2020

CANCELED — Webinar: Jihadism at a crossroads

9:00 AM - 10:00 AM EDT

Reports

Turkish Workers in Cabbage Field

Report

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

Monday, February 3, 2020

Syrian army soldiers walk along a street in Umm al-Mayazen, in the countryside of Deraa, Syria, July 10, 2018. REUTERS/Omar Sanadiki - RC1740AD63D0

Syria

A 10-degree shift in Syria strategy

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

September 2018

A Free Syrian Army fighter walks past a torn poster amid the rubble in the old city of Aleppo August 27, 2013. REUTERS/Muzaffar Salman (SYRIA - Tags: POLITICS CONFLICT) - GM1E98S046P01

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

People wave Turkey's national flags as they attend a ceremony marking the first anniversary of the attempted coup at the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey July 15, 2017. REUTERS/Murad Sezer - RC11D232ECA0

Turkey

The West’s Turkey conundrum

February 2018

Blog Posts

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

Wednesday, February 12, 2020

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

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

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Events

Webinar: COVID-19: Implications for peace and security in the Middle East

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM AST

Cancelled: Walid Jumblatt: A conversation on Lebanon

3:00 PM - 4:30 PM EDT

The counter-ISIS coalition: Diplomacy and security in action

2:00 PM - 3:30 PM EDT

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Experts

Amanda Sloat

Leave of Absence

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Daniel L. Byman

Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for Middle East Policy

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Steven Heydemann

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

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Multimedia

Syrian Democratic Forces and U.S. troops are seen during a patrol near Turkish border in Hasakah, Syria November 4, 2018. REUTERS/Rodi Said - RC1A340091B0

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

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad meets with Syrian army soldiers.

Syria

What are the United States’ options in Syria?

Thursday, April 26, 2018

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