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In the News

Dec 14, 2016

Itani Joins Fox News to Discuss the Violence Renewed in Aleppo Between Government and Rebel Forces

By Faysal Itani

Watch the full interview here.

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In the News

Dec 14, 2016

Hof Joins NPR to Discuss What’s Next for Syria’s Rebel Groups and How Foreign Leaders May Face Responsibility for Lack of Intervention

By Frederic C. Hof

Listen to the full interview here.

Syria

SyriaSource

Dec 13, 2016

Report Summary: Air Strikes in Deir Ezzor

By Brittany Keroack

This article summarizes a report by the Justice for Life Observatory (JFL) in Deir Ezzor. The report, titled Deir EzZor: The Dust of Warplanes, catalogs bombings by all actors—Russia, the regime, and the US-led anti-ISIS coalition—in the besieged city of Deir Ezzor. However, it is not meant to serve as an exhaustive list of air […]

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In the News

Dec 13, 2016

Hof in Defense News: Separating Friend from Foe in Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

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Dec 13, 2016

Farkas Joins MSNBC’s Morning Joe to Discuss the Syrian Conflict

By Evelyn Farkas

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In the News

Dec 13, 2016

Itani in the New York Times: What Comes After Aleppo Falls?

By Faysal Itani

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SyriaSource

Dec 12, 2016

Why the Opposition Can’t Fight in the Coastal Mountains

By Saleem al-Omar

Frequently, activists of different stripes call for revenge against the regime for Aleppo or the Damascus countryside by opening the Syrian coastal front where, during the last four years (prior to the Russian intervention), the opposition controlled wide swaths of the mountains. That is, until the Russians forced the opposition groups to withdraw and only […]

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Dec 8, 2016

Aleppo: The Washing of Hands

By Frederic C. Hof

In Brussels recently, the American secretary of state placed much of the onus for the abomination that is Aleppo on the Syrian opposition. “But the opposition would not buy into a ceasefire; they didn’t want to have a ceasefire. And there was a refusal to embrace the ceasefire, despite many of us saying that’s the […]

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In the News

Dec 8, 2016

Hof Quoted by the Wall Street Journal on the Trump Administration’s Policy on Syria

By Frederic C. Hof

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In the News

Dec 7, 2016

Farkas Joins CNN to Discuss the War in Syria

By Evelyn Farkas

Watch the full interview here.

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