Publications

Far-right activists confront riot police while attempting to march near Ostkreuz railway station in Berlin on March 22, 2025. The event, attended by several hundred far-right and neo-Nazi activists from across Germany, was organized by extremist Ferhat Sentürk, a former politician from the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in Aachen.

‘Point Zero’: Syrian Refugees after the German Elections

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We will not forget; Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Beginning of the Lebanese Civil War

Announcement Of The First Government Under President Ahmad Al-Sharaa

The Path of Syrian National Dialogue and Post-Authoritarian Challenges

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian receive Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani

Analyzing Iranian Influence in Iraq

Syria Conflict Security Graduation Graduates of Syria s General Security forces under the country s new administration attend a ceremony in the northern city of Aleppo on February 12, 2025. Syrian interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa said in an interview released on February 10, that thousands of people were joining the country s new army following the overthrow of Bashar al-Assad and the dissolution of his military. Since the fall of longtime ruler Assad in December, Syria s authorities have dissolved the for

The Last Faction Standing: How Did HTS Survive the Conflict and Make It to Damascus?

20 February 2025

December 18, 2024, Damascus, Syria: The Syrian Military Intelligence Branch 215 was a jail for political prisoners during a brutal regime where countless men disappeared amid accounts of torture in Damascus Syria on December 18, 2024. A rebel offensive led by the Islamist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham ousted President Bashar al-Assad. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights estimates more than 100,000 people died in Syrian prisons and now desperate family members search for their disappeared loved ones. Damasc

From Authoritarianism to Uncertainty: An Explainer of Syria’s Journey under the House of Assad

06 February 2025

Syrien, Milizenführer al-Dscholani in Damaskus Abu Mohammed al-Jolani Leader Of Syrian Insurgents...

Al-Jolani, HTS, and the Future of Syria

06 January 2025