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Items by Ghazi Dahman
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What does the Trump administration want from Damascus?
Following US President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to change the status of Syrian diplomats at the UN mission, which involved the US not recognising the new Syrian administration, a question comes to mind: What does the Trump administration want from Damascus? Is it using non-recognition as a bargaining chip...
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Al-Sharaa’s agreement with the head of the SDF is very important for Syria
The agreement between Syria’s interim President Ahmad Al-Sharaa and the commander of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi, has cooled some of the rage in Syrian hearts following the intense frustration caused by the management of the coastal area battle with remnants of the Assad regime, which...
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On the obstacles to the war between Hezbollah and Israel
Nothing is calm between the south of the Litani and the north of Kiryat Shmona, as the smoke of fires and shells covers the field, which involves raging movement on both sides. Many parties are awaiting zero hour, the heat of which is expected to extend beyond the borders...
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Will Gaza change the interactions between the Global North and the South?
The Israeli war on Gaza reshaped global positions by dividing the world into North and South and, for the first time ever, firm positions emerged from the countries of the South rejecting the standards of the North, which controlled the system of global values by monopolising the definition of...
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Syria’s security services flourish while people starve; what sort of ‘president’ is Assad?
It is no surprise that the Syria Justice and Accountability Centre has released documents revealing that Syrian Embassies around the world spy on their own citizens on behalf of the Assad regime. Every Syrian who has travelled abroad for any reason knows that the regime’s embassies and consulates are...
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Is the Idlib agreement setting up a Russia-Turkey clash?
Unlike all the agreements that Russia has made with international and regional parties to implement its plan in Syria, the Idlib agreement signed by the two sides in Sochi involves many problems that are difficult to solve or overcome. Moreover, the agreement can only be implemented if a major...
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Why are Russia and Iran avoiding a war with Israel?
Israel can do anything to Syria that it considers necessary to protect its own security and interests without fear of reactions beyond the predictable, or reactions that it can deal with and bear the consequences of. This is because Israel knows the ceiling for the responses of the active...
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Arab forces in Syria?
When Donald Trump announced that he would be withdrawing from Syria and leaving it to others to take care of its affairs, the common belief was that by others he meant Russia and Iran. We also did not think he was leaving it to them as a gift, but...