Following the Assad regime’s collapse in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) is asserting control in Damascus, aiming for interim governance. Despite optimism for stability, concerns about HTS’s intentions persist. Meanwhile, foreign influences shift, with Turkey, the U.S., and Israel gaining power, while Iran and Russia face diminished roles in a rapidly evolving landscape.
Middle East
Who should we bomb next?
“UK ministers, far from contributing to negotiations and peace in the Middle East and elsewhere, are making a volatile world even more unstable than it already is.”
Land wars go badly – and today’s world knows it
” Instead, there is every prospect of a bitter war with many thousands more Palestinians killed, tens of thousands of young Palestinians all too ready to fight in the future, and a peaceful resolution of the Israel/Palestine conflict delayed by at least another generation.
Israel and Hamas: the debasement of discourse
“To portray the Islamist fanaticism of Hamas—its radical-conservative ‘purity’ laws, its Manichean world of friend and foe—and its consequent war crimes as somehow comparable to the national liberation movements of past times is, apart from everything else, an insult to the vast majority of those liberation movements.”