After the gradual lifting on subsidies for oil derivatives, in 2020 and particularly 2021, Damascus took a next important step, on 1 February 2022. It announced the exclusion of approximately 600,000 families from its subsidy programme; something like three million Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). This publication is available in English and Arabic. Throughout the war years in Aleppo, 2012-2016, many tribesmen from the Bab al-Nayrab neighbourhood Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS).  Since its beginnings in 2011, the Syrian conflict has caused large-scale internal and external migration.  Though fighting subsided in southern Syria in Read More …

Introduction The leadership of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) has recently amplified its critique of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), and in particular of the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), Mazloum Abdi. The old Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS).  The relationship between the Syrian regime and businessmen went, over many years through different phases, alternating between antagonism and cooperation. However, it remained Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Blog Post from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). Introduction The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Foreign Minister, Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed, met Bashar al-Assad in Damascus on 9 November 2021. A visit Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Research Project Report from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS). This publication is available in English and Arabic. For much of the war in Syria, the north-eastern edge of Damascus was a Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS).  This policy brief explores the Assad regime’s use of amnesties during the Syrian conflict. The purpose of these calculated acts is multifaceted and Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS).  This publication si available in English and Arabic. In the past decade, the price of oil derivatives in Syria has risen as state Read More …

MEDirections is delighted to share a new Policy Brief from the Wartime and Post-Conflict in Syria project (WPCS).  The 2021 Daraa al-Balad crisis and its outcomes have opened a new chapter in the history of southern Syria. The trajectory of the Read More …