Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 06 May 2025
Nearly five months have passed since December 8th, 2024, in Syria. The initial revolutionary fervor has now given way to sobering realities. In other words, the country has returned from its honeymoon to grim reality on the ground.
Taqwa Nedal Abu Kmeil | 03 February 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu finds himself at a critical juncture as his governing coalition faces internal fractures. The recent threats of withdrawal from his ultra-right-wing allies, combined with growing public support for the [...]
Abdullah Yasir Atalan | 03 February 2025 | AR
Donald Trump’s return to the Oval Office resurrects an “America First” approach at odds with the more multilateral style of his predecessor. Biden emphasized alliances and multilateral solutions during his term, but Trump viewed [...]
Sari Orabi | 24 January 2025 | AR | TR
(This text was translated from its original Arabic version.) On Tuesday afternoon, January 21, 2025, a number of Palestinians were killed in the Jenin camp. Dozens of others were injured in an attack by [...]
Tayseer Mohamedali | 30 December 2024
Sudan’s war, now entering its twentieth month, has evolved into one of the world’s most severe humanitarian crises after the eruption of the destructive confrontations between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), a paramilitary group [...]
Habiba Ali | 18 December 2024
Asymmetrical warfare has long been a defining feature of conflict in the Middle East, shaped by various factors, including sectarian divisions, power vacuums, external interventions, and the region's complex geopolitics. The introduction of advanced [...]
Mohamad Fawaz Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 17 December 2024 | AR
The Syrian regime’s 61-year-old tyranny has finally fallen. The country's new rulers have been trying to pave the way for a political transitional process. Regional countries also do not stay idle in this new period. Some regional countries have already started engaging in political talks with HTS and its allies through the Department of Political Affairs of the new government in the country. So far, meetings have been held with ambassadors of Iraq, Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and Italy. It was also announced that Qatar would soon open its embassy in Damascus.
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 12 December 2024 | AR
The 61-year-old regime has finally fallen in Syria. The tyranny of the Baath Party that seized power in the country in 1963 later turned into the Assad clan’s dynasty in 1970 through an intra-party coup Hafez Assad called the 'Corrective Movement,' was consigned to history with a popular revolution on December 8th, 2024, after only a 12-day-long military operation. It would not be an exaggeration to say that the dizzying developments have far exceeded expectations even for seasoned Syria experts following the crisis for many years.
Fatıma Zehra İnce | 09 December 2024
While Iraq stands out with its rich ethnic and religious diversity, the fact that a national census has not been conducted for 27 years raises critical questions regarding social and economic sustainability. The problem [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 02 December 2024 | AR | TR
The Syrian opposition groups operating under the ‘‘Command of Military Operations (previously known as Al Fath al-Mubin Operation Room’’ have initiated their long-spoken major offensive entitled ‘Operation Deterrence of Aggression’ on the Syrian regime [...]
