Ömer Özkizilcik | 05 May 2022
How Turkey's anti-PKK Operations Moved from Southeast Turkey to Iraq: Context, Outcome, and Role of the KRG For a brief period from 2013 to 2014, it seemed that Turkey and the Kurdish militant group [...]
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 01 November 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic and the collapse in oil prices have hit the economies of many regional and international powers badly. From Syria to Yemen and Iraq to Libya, all these dynamics have affected the [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 28 October 2020 | TR
The Democratic Union Party (PYD) has emerged as one of the biggest beneficiaries in the Syrian war, triggered by the Arab Spring. Since its inception in 2003 until 2011, the party had not found the chance of being a significant actor in the Syrian political theatre. However, the Syrian war eruption and the rise of ISIS opened a new chapter for the PYD and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG).
Osama Abo Zayd | 19 October 2020 | AR | TR
Over the years, Hayaat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a Sunni Islamist militant group involved in the Syrian Civil War, has developed methods and tools to preserve itself and its capabilities at a time when most of its competitors have collapsed or lost the bulk of their power and influence.
Mona Alami | 20 August 2020
A massive explosion devastated the Lebanese capital Beirut on August 4, killing at least 170 people and injuring another 6,000. The explosion cast light on Lebanon’s decay. Forty years after the end of the [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz 
Bedir Mulla Rashid | 20 June 2020 | TR | AR
The PYD-led Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) has been facing various thorny challenges in different realms ever since the launch of Operation Peace Spring.
Mohammed Sinan Siyech | 01 May 2020 | AR | TR
In recent years, climate change has become more recognized both globally and in the Middle East and North Africa region
Deniz Baran | 30 March 2020
The Functionality of International Law Concerning the Phenomenon of Armed Non-State Actors in the MENA Region Discussions questioning the general legal framework concerning the use of military force against the non-state actors (NSAs) in [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 16 March 2020
How UAE Mercenaries Serve Its Foreign Policy Ambitions On February 12th the London-based Stoke and White law firm filed a legal case against UAE-hired mercenaries, accusing them of committing war crimes in southern Yemen. [...]
Jonathan Fenton-Harvey | 20 November 2019
When describing increased Al Qaeda activity in Yemen as “deeply worrying” in his statement, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) spokesperson Ravina Shamdasani was drawing attention to the [...]
