Issue 19, December 2024
The quasi-coup
Assad is gone but the deep state lives on
Correcting wrongdoings
What UNHCR needs to learn from its mistakes in Syria
The Sunnis strike back
Capture of Damascus paves way for more regional shifts
Issue 18, November 2024
Dodging politics
OCHA finalises Early Recovery Strategy and Trust Fund
Man without a mission
EU plans to appoint a Syria Envoy stir speculation
Safe zone reloaded
Turkish plans would see Aleppo encircled
From Belfast to Damascus
What Syrians can learn from the Northern Ireland peace process
Order out of chaos
A conversation with Abdulrahman Mustafa
The Peacemakers
Hotel Lobby
Issue 17, October 2024
Standing firm
How Europe’s Syria policy should respond to regional escalation
The end of Political Shi’ism
Israel’s war on Hezbollah ushers in a new era
Aleppo here we come
Rebels mull options for new offensive
Diplomacy in a broken world
A conversation with Jeffrey Feltman — Part 2
The Peacemakers
Flags of Fortune
Issue 16, September 2024
Its time has come
Breathing life into the UN’s Triple Nexus
Southern (dis)comfort
Daraa’s fragmented security points to Syria’s decentralised future
Diplomacy in a broken world
A conversation with Jeffrey Feltman — Part 1
The Peacemakers
A Call to Action
Issue 15, August 2024
Regime in transition
How Assad is embracing change to maintain the status quo
Highway to the danger zone
Italy’s Syria initiative carries risk for the EU
The fight goes on
A conversation with Badr Jamous
The Peacemakers
The Grand Opening
Issue 14, July 2024
Kiss of death
Turkey’s calculated overtures to Assad
Consent and Contingency
How to make cross-border aid future-proof
Unpacking the Early Recovery Trust Fund
A conversation with Adam Abdelmoula
Idlib rising
The irresistible return of politics to the northwest
Issue 13, June 2024
Pedersen’s opportunity
How the UN Envoy can salvage a sinking ship
Manifesting refugee return
Secret regime cable shows why UNHCR is wrong
Madaniya: One year on
A conversation with Sawsan Abou Zainedin
Some recollections may vary
Syrian Memory platform causes a stir
Issue 12, May 2024
Aiding and abetting
New report exposes yet more UN aid diversion
Not wishful thinking
Reimagining the call for a safe, calm, and neutral environment
Why the White House blocked the Anti-Normalisation Act
A conversation with Mouaz Moustafa
Back to the future
How old Syria takes are making a comeback
Issue 11, April 2024
Staying the Course
What to expect from Brussels VIII
Colliding with Congress
UN Country Team vs. Anti-Normalisation Act
Upgrading aid and EU engagement in Syria
Exploring the Aid Fund for Northern Syria
Breaking Bones but not taboos
How Syrian TV dramas help Assad deflect blame
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