Syria-SDF Integration Deal: From Paper to Practice—The Long Road Ahead
A new integration agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the Government of Syria was announced yesterday. It is the latest iteration in a string of deals stipulating military, security, and administrative integration, and expresses both sides’ commitment to building a unified Syria and ensuring a lasting ceasefire. The hard work of turning lines […]
Syria-SDF Integration Deal: From Paper to Practice—The Long Road Ahead
“Yarmouk Is the Cemetery for ISIS”: Inside the Camp That Survived the Caliphate and Fears Its Return
Rojava at the Brink: Why the SDF–Damascus Agreement Risks Ending Kurdish Autonomy in Syria
Rojava Is the Kurds’ Existential Struggle
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Debunking the Syrian State Narrative of “Abandoned” ISIS Camp in al-Hol
On Tuesday, 20 January 2026, viral social media videos depicted uncontrolled mass escapes from the sprawling al-Hol camp in Syria. That day, its gates lay wide open as the result of a major security vacuum created amid the Syrian Transition Government (STG) forces’ blitzkrieg advance in the region. The camp’s main section held roughly 17,500 […]
Weapons, Steel, Oil: How Turkey Continues to Fuel Israel’s War Machine
By William Duppel Alonso & Lucie Charbonneau Writing from the West Bank in May 2024, journalist Amberin Zaman reported that effigies of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan were coming down across Palestine. Throughout the 2010s, the Turkish leader had commanded great admiration for his diatribes against Israel, but Israel’s war on Gaza has poked holes in Erdoğan’s […]
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