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 [...]
Quentin Peel | 07 October 2019 | AR | TR
Hay'at Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), known as the “Organization for the Liberation of the Levant” has experienced an escalation in the attacks it has been undergoing, which is now increasingly challenging the cohesion of its authority in Idlib.
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Bedir Mulla Rashid | 09 April 2019 | AR | TR
Even though foreign fighters are an age-old phenomenon, they have once again come to the fore with the outbreak of the war in Syria. The battlefield has attracted thousands of foreign volunteers who have joined
Enes Calli | 12 February 2019
The PKK's miscalculation of regional politics from the ceasefire to the present day In 2013, Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), visited Ankara and met with Turkish officials. “Kurds [...]
Mehmet Emin Cengiz | 16 January 2019 | TR
The YPG's Search for Legitimacy in War-Torn Syria The People's Protection Units (YPG), which is widely known to be an offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Syria, has been attempting to gain [...]
Ranj Alaaldin | 03 October 2018 | TR
This paper establishes the extent to which armed non-state actors can be integrated into governance structures and the political orders they have ferociously contested in recent years
Omar Ashour | 01 August 2018 | AR | TR
This policy brief seeks to understand the sources of strength of armed non-state actors and to explain why stronger state actors have sustained difficulties in defeating them on the tactical
Al Sharq Strategic Research | 30 July 2018 | TR
After the protests broke out in the first half of February 2011, Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh made several attempts to reduce tension in the society. However, by that time a long-standing conflict
Mona Alami | 29 November 2017 | TR
Prime Minister Saad Hariri took his country by storm on Nov. 4 when he announced his resignation as head of the Lebanese government, blaming his decision on Iranian interference in his country’s affairs.
