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Category: Middle East

The Road to Damascus: The Case for Normalization with the New Syrian Government

by Juwayriah WrightPosted onMarch 26, 2025May 8, 2025

OP-ED: For years, US policy in Syria has led from behind. In the shadow of HTS’s evolution and the country’s new reality, a pragmatic policy reassessment is long overdue.

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A Conversation With the WHO Representative in Syria (Originally Published May 29, 2021)

by Jett GoldsmithPosted onJuly 12, 2024July 12, 2024

A conversation with the (now-former) World Health Organization representative to Syria, originally published in May 2021, provides insight into later claims of corruption, fraud, and abuse allegedly perpetrated by her office in regime-held Syria.

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Game Changer: Israel’s Embrace of Sports as a Tool of Ideology and Propaganda

by Aisha MalikPosted onJuly 11, 2024October 15, 2024
A shot of Columbia University's Gaza Solidarity Encampment on its fourth day after being reinstated by protesters, April 21, 2024. Photo credit: Abbad Diraneyya, Creative Commons.

OP-ED: For nearly a century, Israel has embraced sporting as a tool of colonialism and national pride, in an effort to assert and ingrain its political ideology across a broad audience. As this “sportswashing” becomes more concerted, we must work to understand its history and its current role in American politics.

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With Winter Looming, Rukban Families Get New Shelter

by Jett GoldsmithPosted onDecember 2, 2020July 10, 2024

Despite UN inaction, much needed winterization gear has finally arrived in Rukban — and more is on the way.

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Resistance Group Activity in Syria (Updated)

by Jens HittrienPosted onOctober 6, 2020July 10, 2024

(This is an update to the original charts by Jens Hittrien.) As territorial control of Syria stabilizes between various factions of the civil war, parties engaging in the governance of territory under their control have been faced with the continuous growth of clandestine resistance organizations in Syria.

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Resistance Group Activity in Syria

by Jens HittrienPosted onJuly 30, 2020July 10, 2024

As territorial control of Syria stabilizes between various factions of the civil war, parties engaging in the governance of territory under their control have been faced with the continuous growth of clandestine resistance organizations in Syria.

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A Basic Guide to Photospheres, Street View, and Security

by Noor NahasPosted onJune 30, 2020July 10, 2024

OSINT researchers can easily utilize Google Maps tools to verify information and establish suspect timelines. But do their benefits to investigators outweigh their risk to the user?

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Are the Free Burma Rangers Involved in Fighting Alongside the SDF?

by Arslon XudosiPosted onMarch 31, 2020July 10, 2024

Free Burma Rangers founder David Eubank insists the Christ-driven group is carrying out a solely humanitarian mission in northeastern Syria. What role do they really play?

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