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To Ease Syria’s Energy Crisis, Assad Must Return to the Negotiating Table
Washington can help alleviate the country's fuel crisis, but only if Damascus and Moscow agree to extend the cross-border aid mechanism and resume progress toward a final political settlement.
Dec 22, 2022
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Andrew J. Tabler
Erik Yavorsky
Maps & Graphics
Brief Analysis
Israel’s Karish Gas Field: Diplomatic Opportunity or Casus Belli?
Seven experts examine how the fraught decision to start production might affect Beirut’s negotiating stance, Hezbollah’s military calculus, U.S.-Israel relations, and other factors.
Sep 20, 2022
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Simon Henderson
Hanin Ghaddar
Matthew Levitt
Ehud Yaari
David Makovsky
David Schenker
Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Will the Putin-Erdogan-Raisi Summit Spark a Turkish Incursion into Syria?
Moscow and Tehran may well assent to another cross-border operation, but Turkey’s choice of targets will depend on multiple U.S., Russian, and Iranian interests.
Jul 18, 2022
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Soner Cagaptay
Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Time to Develop a Plan B for Syria Aid
Although alternatives to the UN mechanism carry uncertainties of their own, continuing the broken status quo will only boost Moscow, endanger Syrian civilians, and help the Assad regime avoid sanctions—not to mention whetting his appetite for natural gas shipments.
Jul 14, 2022
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Anna Borshchevskaya
Louis Dugit-Gros
Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Recasting Syria’s Cross-Border Aid Debate
The UN aid mechanism is alive for another six months, but the threat of famine, Russian vetoes, and military escalation will persist unless Washington takes appropriate steps before the next round of renewal negotiations.
Jan 21, 2022
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Anna Borshchevskaya
Andrew J. Tabler
Calvin Wilder
Articles & Testimony
Solving Syria’s Crisis Starts with Sanctioning Iranian Oil
Instead of quietly greenlighting the Assad regime’s diplomatic rehabilitation, U.S. officials should escalate economic pressure on its Iranian enablers to regain leverage at the negotiating table.
Jan 3, 2022
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Andrew J. Tabler
Matthew Zweig
In-Depth Reports
Power to the People?
Scrutinizing the U.S.-Arab Effort to Supply Energy to Lebanon via Syria
Residents of the beleaguered country desperately need electricity, but a U.S.-Arab scheme carries complications that could benefit Syria's Assad regime.
Dec 16, 2021
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Katherine Bauer
Ben Fishman
Hanin Ghaddar
Simon Henderson
David Schenker
Andrew J. Tabler
Video
Brief Analysis
Affirming U.S. Commitments Abroad: The View from Syria’s Democratic Council
The head of the council joins two Washington Institute experts for a far-ranging conversation on the U.S. role in the northeast, Kurdish threat perceptions, the effect of the Afghanistan withdrawal, and more.
Sep 29, 2021
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Elham Ahmad
Andrew J. Tabler
David Pollock
Articles & Testimony
The Search for a Syria Strategy: What Biden Can Learn From Trump’s Successes and Failures
Washington needs a special envoy to develop a coherent, intelligence-supported political strategy aimed at isolating Assad, limiting his facilitators, and enabling humanitarian NGOs.
Jul 27, 2021
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Andrew J. Tabler
In-Depth Reports
Triangular Diplomacy:
Unpacking Russia's Syria Strategy
Moscow has repeatedly played actors off each other to secure its own interests and keep the Assad regime in power.
Jul 7, 2021
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Anna Borshchevskaya
Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Sep 4, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
In-Depth Reports
A Tale of Six Tribes: Securing the Middle Euphrates River Valley
THE ISLAMIC STATE is now largely defeated militarily, with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces taking the eastern bank of the Euphrates River and a mosaic of largely Iran- and Russia-supported Assad-regime forces taking areas west of the river. As anti-IS operations wind down and the Trump administration considers its options
Jun 21, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
May 7, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Multimedia
What Comes Next in Syria?
With President Trump’s strikes on Assad’s regime, the Syrian civil war is at the forefront of the global political stage. But what happens when the strikes are over?
Apr 20, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Multimedia
The Syria Disaster, Seven Years In
"Atlantic" editors Matt Thompson and Kathy Gilsinan ask Syria expert Andrew Tabler to explain how the conflict has worn on for years and what the path forward might be.
Apr 20, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Articles & Testimony
How Syria Came to This
The Douma chemical attacks are only the latest chapter in a long story of ethnic and sectarian conflict, international connivance, and above all civilian suffering.
Apr 15, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Articles & Testimony
Trump's Order to Strike Syria May End Future Chemical Weapons Attacks
Continuing to enforce the ban on such weapons via military action can give Washington some much needed leverage in the Geneva negotiations.
Apr 14, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Apr 12, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Brief Analysis
Mar 15, 2018
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Andrew J. Tabler
Video
Brief Analysis
Reporting Syria and Iraq
A journalist who has covered the wars in Syria and Iraq offers a rare eyewitness account of how the conflicts have defied expert predictions, eroded state identity, and threatened the wider geostrategic order. Watch video.
Mar 8, 2018
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Jonathan Spyer
Andrew J. Tabler
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