The Jordanian Initiative: Opportunities to Establish Security in Southern Syria

Policy Analysis | This analysis examines Jordan’s efforts to mobilize international support and an Arab consensus to reach a political solution to the Syrian crisis. The aim is to reduce security threats along Jordan’s northern and eastern borders and strengthen the active Arab role in the Syrian crisis in the face of Iranian influence in the country.

Syrian-Turkish Rapprochement And Geopolitical Scenarios In Northern Syria

Position Assessment | This paper addresses the features of the Syrian-Turkish rapprochement at the intelligence and military levels, and seeks to estimate the transformations in northern Syria by answering the following questions: What are the changes that will take place regarding the military movements in Idlib and the areas of Turkish influence in northern Syria? What is the nature of the changes to the influence of the Kurdish movements in northeast Syria? What are the main challenges that could face the trilateral track between Ankara, Moscow, and Damascus in northern Syria?

The Hamas-Damascus Track: One Way or an Intersection of Interests?

Policy Analysis | This paper seeks to provide an analytical reading of Hamas' announcement to resume its relations with Syria after a decade of rupture. It also examines the motives behind the announcement in light of the Hamas's ambitions and the pressures that besiege Hamas the factors and variables leading to this declaration, and the internal problems and external obstacles that it has faced in the past or may face in the future because of it.

Al-Julani's Statelet

This strategic study examines China's major strategy in imposing its sovereignty on the regional seas, in order to evade the imposed sanction over it by the U.S. security arch in the Pacific ocean. The paper presents answers to questions such as: Would the Chinese strategy be able to break down 125 years of the U.S. domination on the Pacific, and eight decades of absolute hegemony in that area, as such hegemony was recently used to besiege China? What are the dimensions, levels, and motivations of the U.S. besiege on China? Why did the Pacific become the U.S. priority at the onset of this century? Would China be able to break the current international system's rules and entrap the U.S in an investable military confrontation, in order to determine the new international system shape? Does the current Chinese power allow itto dismantle the hydra head-shape alliances in the Pacific? And when would the Chinese be able to take that step?

Arab Openness to Syria: Manifestations, Basis, and Prognosis

This paper addresses the manifestations of the Arab approach towards Syria, searching in the reasons and effects of such approach, starting from a main hypothesis; that is: in spite that some parties' abjection in the region, as well as the US, but the track of Arab openness on Damascus is heading forward.

Syria in the Shadow of the War in Ukraine: Caught Between Rock of Victory and Hard Place of Defeat  

Putin did it, he invaded Ukraine. His military operation continues there, with all force and determination, indifferent to all the "cold and slow" threats emanating from the West if compared to the heat and escalation of events.

Syria's International Rehabilitation: What Is Next?

The following strategic assessment paper reviews Syria's position in the regional and international environments in light of the immediate changes that will inevitably cast a shadow over the situation in Syria. The paper also argues that the process of "rehabilitation" for the return of Damascus's diplomatic relations with the international community must be accompanied by "comprehensive local reconstruction" within a path that takes into account the political, economic, security and community aspects.

U.S. Sanctions Are Killing Innocent Syrians

The complicated Military Map in North-Eastern Syria

Tensions are escalating around the town of Ain Issa which is located on the international highway M4 in the northern countryside of Al-Raqqa governorate, thus having strategic significance in the context of the raging military conflict in northeastern Syria between the Turkish forces and their proxy armed factions, the Syrian Democratic Forces, and the Syrian regular army that is coordinating with Russia. What does the scene look like there?