Betrayed by Allies: How U.S. Abandonment of the Kurds Revived ISIS and Empowered HTS
Aayush Pal U.S. assurances to the Kurds are now unravelling, with their latest betrayal becoming evident after December 2024, when…
The Secret Alliance: How Mossad and Moscow Found Common Ground in Syria
Yossi Cohen, former Mossad chief, in his memoir The Sword of Freedom, claims a secret collaboration between the…
Battlegrounds by Proxy: Yemen, Syria, and Lebanon in the Crosshairs of Regional Rivalries
Daljeet Singh Proxy warfare in the Middle East allows powerful states and non-state actors to advance interests through local allies,…
Strategic Realignment: US-Saudi Mega Deal and the Emerging West Asian ‘Opportunist Axis’
The new Syrian leader, who once headed HTS, a group previously designated as a terrorist organisation and backed…
A Comparative analysis between the Syrian Arab Army and the Afghan National Army and their collapse
Dhruv Ashok Benevolent dictatorship vs feeble leadership A Benevolent Dictatorship is a government in which an authoritarian leader exercises absolute…
Turkey’s Strategic Gamble: Backing HTS Amid Syria’s Political Turmoil
Turkey’s Role and Gamble: Turkey’s backing of HTS, a rebranded al-Qaeda affiliate, highlights its expansionist ambitions in Syria,…
Sins of my Colonial Masters: A Brief History of Syria and the Middle East
Balaji Subramanian Legacy of Sykes-Picot: The Sykes-Picot Agreement’s arbitrary borders ignored the ethnic and religious diversity of the Middle East,…
Syria’s Civil War: The Ripple Effects on Iran, Dollar Dominance, and Regionalism
Parag Gilada The present conflict in Syria that began in 2011 has forever changed the political map of the Middle…
The Fall of Assad’s Syria: A Manufactured Tragedy and Global Crisis
Prajwal K M The fall of President Bashar al-Assad’s government in Syria marks a tragic and calculated chapter in global politics,…
Assad’s Downfall and the Fragile Dynamics of Power in the Middle East
Anjali Singh The regime's fundamental vulnerability was shown when Assad's forces were unable to stop the insurgents' quick successes, despite…