MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria Project (WPCS) with a renewed layout. This study analyses the evolution of the private banking sector in Syria and the challenges and obstacles Read More …
The webinar will attempt to identify what cards Damascus will play the day after the elections. Syria’s presidential election day, 26 May 2021, is a symbolic milestone in the country’s decade-old conflict. The result of the election is already known Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). After five years of fierce battles, the military campaign succeeded in bringing down the Caliphate – that Islamic State (IS) declared in Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). The Syrian conflict has altered the ecosystem in northern Syria in many ways. However, the most significant shift has been Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). Over the last few years, increasing political and criminal violence has dominated narratives emerging from Daraa and Sweida governorates in Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). During the years of war in Deir ez-Zor and the siege imposed by Islamic State on the pocket of territory Read More …
As part of its efforts to provide a nuanced understanding of the conflict’s dynamics and trends, the ‘Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria’ (WPCS) team of the Middle East Directions Programme has collectively reflected on the mass of research on Syria Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). While analysts regularly point out that Russia is seizing Syrian’s natural resources including phosphates as a compensation for its costly military Read More …
MEDirections is delighted to share a new Working Paper by Patrick Haenni and Jerôme Drevon. This paper was originally published in English on the 3rd of February 2021. The territories ruled by the Syrian opposition are being reorganised. The leaderless revolution has given way to Read More …
Between 2016 and 2019, Turkey launched three military operations in the northern Aleppo countryside (Operation Euphrates Shield), Afrin (Operation Olive Branch) and the northern Raqqa countryside – western al-Hasakah (Operation Peace Spring). This study addresses the questions of whether there Read More …
