Dimitar Bechev | 11 April 2017
In the short-term Putin can shrug off the U.S. strikes, but Russia’s long-term strategy in Syria is coming under strain. Whether drafted in the comfort of his opulent Tuscan villa or in the corridors of [...]
Galip Dalay | 10 March 2017
Multiplication of Threats and Goals Turkey’s interpretation of and approach toward the situation in Syria has been dynamic, as the nation has shifted its priorities and used different tactics throughout each stage of the crisis. [...]
Basheer Nafi | 09 March 2017
It was the diaspora that incubated the Palestinian national movement - and they may just be the ones to fire it up again A few months ago, a group of Palestinians came up with the [...]
Wadah Khanfar | 10 February 2017 | AR
Al Sharq Forum President Wadah Khanfar analyses the power plays that have torn the region apart No analysis of power dynamics in the Middle East and North Africa region can ignore the necessity of a [...]
Basheer Nafi | 08 February 2017
On 9 August 2016, Turkish President Tayyip Recep Erdogan met his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin in St Petersburg. Since Turkey was still preoccupied at the time with confronting Fethullah Gulen's organisation which was accused of carrying out [...]
Basheer Nafi | 25 December 2016 | AR
Should the status quo under Bashar al-Assad be restored, Syria will witness an unprecedented programme of ethnic re-engineering Should the loss of Aleppo result in the end of the Syrian revolution, the outcome would be [...]
Galip Dalay | 23 December 2016 | AR
Despite the fall of Aleppo and the Russian-Turkish-Iranian diplomatic drive, the Syrian war is not about to end soon. Three momentous recent events will shape the course of the Syrian crisis: the fall Aleppo, the [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 23 December 2016
Syria's war comes to Ankara How will the assassination of Russian ambassador Andrei Karlov impact Russian-Turkish relations over Syria? The world breathed in as one when Russia’s ambassador to Turkey, Andrei Karlov, was shot dead [...]
Dimitar Bechev | 08 December 2016 | AR
Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election has left a trail of political debris in its wake. At the top of the long list of casualties is the cherished myth of American exceptionalism. At [...]
