Analysis
Monday, January 27th 2025
Shahram Sabzevari World Crunch, Jan. 23, 2025 “The Zangezur corridor is a symbol of close and fruitful collaborations between Turkey and Azerbaijan.” Discreet at first, Turkey is now open in its backing for Syria’s new ruler, Ahmad al-Sharaa, the Islamist rebel whose forces toppled the Iran-backed Bashar al-Assad. Indeed, Assad’s fall is affecting ties between the Islamic […]
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Loqman Radpey Jerusalem Post, Jan. 19, 2025 “Turkey’s partnership with Qatar in financing Islamic movements reveals a coordinated strategy to dominant Sunni Muslim communities globally, especially after the weakening of Iran’s “axis of resistance.”” Turkey’s bold foreign policy moves in recent years reflect a determined effort to redefine its regional and global role. From its […]
Thursday, January 2nd 2025
Scott N. Romaniuk & László Csicsmann Geopolitical Monitor, Dec. 23, 2024 “Beijing’s present-day relationship with the region consists of four facets: domestic/regional security, culture, economy, and politics/diplomacy.” The abrupt ouster of the Assad regime in Syria after five decades of its reign caught governments around the world by surprise. This sudden transition of power and major shift […]
Isranet Daily Briefing
Wednesday, December 11th 2024
“Syria provided so many advantages at a low cost. Losing Syria would be a big strategic defeat that would reverberate beyond the Middle East. It would have global repercussions.” – Anna Borshchevskaya **** Retreat of Syrian Forces Threatens ‘Saigon Moment’ for Russia: Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove, WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 Putin’s Collapsing Middle […]
Tom Rogan Unherd, Dec. 8, 2024 “Putin’s overambition has come home to roost. He thought he had won in Syria and could easily squash Ukraine. Now the consequences of his latter failing have reverberated in the former country.” Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown, fleeing Damascus after a rapid rebel advance. But the Syrian dictator is far from […]
Owen Matthews The Spectator World, Dec. 8, 2024 “Syria never became a great patriotic project for Putin’s Kremlin. Russia’s airbase in Hmemim and a tiny naval base at Tartus, near Latakia, were always of more symbolic and diplomatic value than practical.” The Kremlin’s involvement in Syria’s civil war was always, first and foremost, about posing […]
Hanna Notte NY Times, Dec. 10, 2024 “No amount of rhetorical gymnastics by Russia’s spin doctors can distract from the fact that the abandonment of Mr. al-Assad is the clearest sign, since Mr. Putin invaded Ukraine, that there are new limits on Russian power projection.” This time, when Bashar al-Assad started to fall, Russia was […]
Sune Engel Rasmussen and Thomas Grove WSJ, Dec. 7, 2024 “To see Russian planes leave Syria as rebel forces move onward towards their air bases, and their assets in Damascus fall, this would be so devastating for the Russian image of itself. It would be akin to a Saigon moment for them.” A fast-advancing rebel offensive […]
Tuesday, December 10th 2024 / Tuesday, December 10th 2024
“On Wednesday, his faction announced that “Muslims and Christians in all their diversity will be respected.” Whether this suggests a genuine wish, or whether this is simply the latest chameleon twist in al-Jolani’s long history of deception on the road to creating an Islamist state, has yet to be seen.” – Simon Sebag Montefiore HALF JIHADI? […]
Tuesday, December 10th 2024
Jonathan Spyer WSJ, Dec. 8, 2024 “In each case, Israel’s response laid bare the profound inferiority of the Iranians and their allies in direct confrontation.” The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria marks the eclipse of Iran’s self-styled axis of resistance in the Middle East. While the successful advance of the Syrian Sunni insurgents […]
Simon Sebag Montefiore The Free Press, Dec. 8, 2024 “It is impossible to watch the fall of the brutal tyranny of the House of Assad without feeling joy.” In Qardaha, in the Alawite lands of Latakia on the Mediterranean, stands the sumptuous and pristine marble mausoleum worthy of an Arab monarch. It is here the founder of […]
Jonathan Schanzer Commentary Magazine, Dec. 8, 2024 “The Syrian border with Israel, now fortified with ground troops and air power, is one to watch in the weeks and months ahead.” The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria has collapsed. Sunni rebels, backed by Turkey and Qatar, completed their lightning offensive last night after just a few short […]
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