Local Dynamics
Issue 29 – November 2025
The last banner of Zaynab
Syria’s Shia find themselves tolerated but subdued
Issue 28 – September 2025
The (sub)National Guard
The Druze of Syria now have an army
Issue 27 – August 2025
Lions of Syria
Damascus’ mobilisation of tribes and monarchial ambitions
Issue 25 – June 2025
Terrorism reawakened
Islamic State is a growing (and useful) threat
Issue 23 – April 2025
Damascus re-born
The Syrian capital is embracing its newfound identity
Issue 22 – March 2025
Tanks and cash
Israel’s hearts and minds campaign in southern Syria
Issue 21 – February 2025
Waiting, waiting
Arabs from northeast Syria demand liberation from SDF rule
Issue 17 – October 2024
Aleppo here we come
Rebels mull options for new offensive
Issue 16 – September 2024
Southern (dis)comfort
Daraa’s fragmented security points to Syria’s decentralised future
Issue 14 – July 2024
Idlib rising
The irresistible return of politics to the northwest
Issue 10 – March 2024
Rise and decline of Tayy
One tribe’s fortunes reveals much about northeast Syria
Issue 8 – January 2024
Jolani battles dissidents
HTS purge sign of shifting policy
Issue 7 – December 2023
Brothers in arms
Plot twists in the Deir Ezzor tribal revolt
Issue 6 – November 2023
No way out
Why Alawites don’t turn against Assad
Issue 6 – November 2023
Shadow wars
Daraa’s anti-trafficking vigilantes
Issue 5 – October 2023
A revolt in need of a lifeline
Suwayda mulls its options
Issue 5 – October 2023
Death from above?
Doubts about the military college massacre
Issue 4 – September 2023
Fraying at the edges
Suwayda and Deir Ezzor rise up
Issue 4 – September 2023
Great Arab Revolt redux
Tribal power play in eastern Syria