THE HARD TASK OF COUNTING CASUALTIES IN SYRIA
We may never know how many people have died in the decade-long conflict that became a proxy war of foreign nations, writes Sofía Brinck.
U.S. SECRET HOSTAGE TALKS WITH SYRIA COULD BE MAJOR PROGRESS IN PEACE INITIATIVES
For the United States and Israel, the most serious security concern in Syria remains the continued Iranian involvement, writes Abraham Wagner.
NEXT STEPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AFTER HISTORIC ABRAHAM ACCORDS PEACE AGREEMENT
At present no one can say when and if Saudi Arabia will join peace accords with Israel, and Syria should also be considered, writes Abraham Wagner.
COVID-19 AND THE MIDDLE EAST’S ‘COLD WAR’
The term “post-COVID-19 world” has already entered our collective lexicon just as the “post-9/11 world” did more than two decades ago, and the “post-war world” did after the end of World War II, writes Ibrahim al-Marashi.
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