Öcalan’s Quiet Leverage: How İmralı Shaped Rojava’s January De-escalation
The late-January agreement between the Syrian Democratic Forces and Syria’s interim authorities arrived with little fanfare and many ambiguities. Publicly, it looked like an imperfect compromise hammered out under pressure. Within Syria, it stopped a rapidly expanding war that threatened to unravel the progress made by more than a decade of Kurdish self-rule in northeast […]
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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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