Region: North-East Syria

The fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime opened the possibility of a different relationship between Syrians and the state. For many ...

In late August, Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) commander Mazloum Abdi announced the dissolution of the SDF and the end of ...

On 13th September, interim authorities introduced a new pricing bulletin raising prices for diesel by 40%, 90-octane petrol by 26%, ...

Following the fall of the Assad regime, considerable attention has focused on sanctions relief, attracting international investment and reintegrating Syria ...

Despite months of halting progress, local resistance and entrenched factional interests, the Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) integration process appears to ...

June was defined less by any single breakthrough but rather the uneven and occasionally contradictory signals emerging from the actors ...

The past month has been characterized largely by continuity in Syria’s north-east, with the slow, though generally forward-moving, progress of ...

Despite continued setbacks and signs of local resistance, the last month saw tangible steps towards incorporating Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) ...

Syria’s transition to date has been overwhelmingly defined by a stabilization-first approach, both by new Syrian authorities under interim President ...

While military integration talks between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Damascus have remained constructive, translating paper agreements into tangible ...