Making Friends with a Murderer: Normalising with the Assad regime

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War Trumps Khamenei: The death of Ayatollah Khamenei and the opposition inside and outside Iran

Iran has changed forever. The US and Israel are firing missiles and dropping bombs on targets across Iran. Senior figures from the regime and the IRGC are being assassinated. Ayatollah Khamenei was killed on the first day of the war. The future of Iran is still being written. On ...  Show more

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Bending the Knee to Damascus: The Syrian Democratic Forces agree to integrate into the Syrian state

Just over a year from the start of the new government in Syria, violence returned to Aleppo. In January, the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and the forces of the interim Syrian government clashed in the Aleppo areas of Sheikh Maqsoud and Ashrafiyah. The SDF came off w ...  Show more

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