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Is Syria Like Iraq? By Joshua Landis, May 1, 2012, Syria Comment In my recent discussion with Murhaf Jouejati on PBS Newshour, I argued that the reason the US should avoid taking the lead in Syria is that the conflict is sectarian and resembles that of Iraq, where the US had little success. Murhaf took [...]
By Matthew Barber and the Syria Video team This long post contains the following sections: The Defectors Defect Will EU Oil Purchases Finance al-Qaida? Al-Musareb: Al-Nusra Punishes a Village Regime-Style Syrian Taliban The Opposition’s Ambivalent Response to al-Nusra’s Affiliation with al-Qaida (and the Plan to Introduce an Alternative Islamic Law in Syria) Jabhat al-Nusra is [...]
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment David Ignatius has written an article in the Washington Post called “Sorting out the Syrian opposition”, where he provides names and manpower figures for the Syrian insurgency. He’s basing his argument on reports from a Syrian opposition group. I happen to know which one, but I haven’t seen the [...]
Posted by Matthew Barber Drones & Intervention We included a report in a previous post that the CIA is eyeing Syria for the use of drones. Now a report by Chuck Hagel and David Boren suggests that the drone program is aberrant and problematic for the CIA: U.S. intelligence too focused on killing suspected [...]
Posted by Matthew Barber Recent Highlights Landis on Al-Jazeera “Damascus could very well look like Aleppo in a year’s time.” — J. Landis “I think when you discuss the Syrian crisis now … in terms of violence, there is a balanced playing field. The violence which is being perpetrated by the opposition groups, the [...]
The Free Syrian Army Does Exist and is Growing Stronger by the Day by *Koert Debeuf for Syria Comment, March 19, 2013 When I read the piece of Aron Lund, ‘the FSA doesn’t exist’, I was utterly surprised. Of course the FSA does exist. And it is changing rapidly.Over the last few months, the FSA [...]
al-Nusra Syrians Protest Demanding Exit of al-Nusra Activists take to streets of rebel-held Mayadeen in eastern Syria for third straight day to demand that Al-Nusra Front fighters leave town. Protests erupted after the Islamist Al-Nusra Front… set up a religious council in the east of Deir Ezzor province, where Mayadeen is situated, to [...]
Grant Kurds an Autonomous State in Southeast Turkey Guest Opinion for Syria Comment by Evin Cheikosman, a student at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a Syrian-Kurd who plans to pursue graduate studies in Germany or Turkey. TO: Recep Tayipp Erdoğan, Prime Minister, Turkey Honorable Prime Minister Erdoğan, as you are aware, the long-standing [...]
Women, the forgotten victims By Aida Dalati – December 28, 2012 Why haven’t you addressed the lack of Syrian women representatives in the future new Syria coalition ( not from the cliché Islamic point of view just intellectual because we women want to go forward after all we are full participants in this revolution) and [...]
Glenn Robinson, “Syria’s Long Civil War“, Current History, Dec. 2012 Here is an excerpt – (Read the whole thing – it is well written and argued) …..A BIGGER LEBANON Syria’s troubles go well beyond warring ethnic and confessional groups, to the fact that Syria as a political entity—as a nation—hardly exists. To be sure, the [...]
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