Issue 10, March 2024
Reconstruction-lite
UN introduces Early Recovery Trust Fund
What Trump will do in the Middle East
A conversation with Joel Rayburn
New acts at the ostracisation arena
Norwegian chargé d’affaires and DRC in Damascus
Rise and decline of Tayy
One tribe’s fortunes reveals much about northeast Syria
Must try harder
How Syrian think tanks can up their game
Issue 9, February 2024
Escaping the rabbit hole
UN attempts to advance constitutional process
Disaster diplomacy
Griffiths reports setbacks to Security Council
Playing down the clock
The phony debate over Iran’s proxy network
Living in the crossfire
Jordan’s growing national security crisis
Chain of command
CIJA files prove Assad’s role in crimes
Issue 8, January 2024
Making hay as Gaza burns
Concern over neutrality rewards for Assad
The unyielding emirate
Understanding Qatar’s Syria policy
Deal of the Century
Why the West should come to terms with China
Assad’s invisible hand
Countering the regime’s dismissal of transitional justice
Jolani battles dissidents
HTS purge sign of shifting policy
Issue 7, December 2023
Yes, you can
Making sense of European strategic patience
Full spectrum transitional justice
Uniting truth-seeking, reconciliation and accountability
Diminishing returns
The decline of Russia’s soft power in Syria
Brothers in arms
Plot twists in the Deir Ezzor tribal revolt
Looking ahead
What to watch out for in 2024
Issue 6, November 2023
Triple Nexus Syria version
Introducing “cross-area” stabilisation
Timeless beauty
The case for UNSCR 2254
Gaza’s silver lining
Resolving the Israel-Palestine conflict
Shadow wars
Daraa’s anti-trafficking vigilantes
No way out
Why Alawites don’t turn against Assad
Issue 5, October 2023
Flat on arrival
UN’s steps-for-steps fails to impress
A revolt in need of a lifeline
Suwayda mulls its options
Master of Chaos
Iran pre-empts regional isolation
Death from above?
Doubts about the military college massacre
Postcard from Beijing
Assad’s Chinese holiday
Issue 4, September 2023
Fraying at the edges
Suwayda and Deir Ezzor rise up
Great Arab Revolt redux
Tribal power play in eastern Syria
Plan B for northwest Syria
An alternative to UN aid gains traction
Jump starting a process
How the Constitutional Committee can work
The Jolani tax
International legitimacy comes at a price
Issue 3, August 2023
Decluttering the European toolbox
Humanitarian exemptions and Early Recovery
The Guilt Trip
How to get money from the West
Enemies with benefits
Convergence between northwest and northeast Syria
Pedersen’s Frankenstein
Step-for-step goes rogue
Eastern approaches
Washington and Riyadh consider military options
Issue 2, July 2023
High on promise
The phony focus on Captagon
Holding the line
Brussels VII conference
The Assad whisperer
Griffiths in Damascus
The best of bad options
Erdogan’s third way on refugees
Astana is dead, long live Astana
20th International Meeting
Issue 1, June 2023
More than an aid conference
Brussels VII
Keeping the UNSCR 2254 flag flying
Opposition unity in Geneva
Fear and loathing in Jeddah
Assad’s tantrum at the airport
Staking a claim to space
Madaniya conference