Aron Lund

@aronlund

Writer for hire, mostly on the Middle East. Does Syria stuff for The Century Foundation () and IRIN ().

aron.lund.syria/gmail.com
Joined December 2011
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    Apr 6

    For those trying to follow the Eastern Ghouta conflict in Syria, I have collected twenty articles, blog posts, and reports from 2013-2018 here:

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  2. 12 hours ago

    Syrian state forensics institute prepares to collect bodies after seven years of conflict in Ghouta, calling on people with missing relatives to provide details to help with identification—but there's no money for DNA testing, writes Mohammed Manar Hmijou.

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    19 hours ago

    President Erdoğan: “We decided to hold the elections on June 24, 2018. I hope this decision will yield beneficial results for our country and nation.”

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  4. 12 hours ago

    When Trump gave orders to fire, intel analysts felt sure chlorine had been used in Douma, but were uncertain about sarin, reports . Seems broadly consistent with official rhetoric, but some claims leaked to media were more bullish on sarin.

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  5. 13 hours ago

    According to a report in Enab Baladi, a pro-opposition newspaper that cited local sources in Douma, two car bombs exploded at the site of the reported chemical attacks yesterday.

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  6. 13 hours ago

    Contrary to what Syrian and Russian state media claimed yesterday, OPCW has not been able to enter Douma to investigate alleged gas attacks. Syrian authorities approved a visit, but when UN security officers did a test run, they were fired upon and bombed.

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  7. 13 hours ago

    Population figures and humanitarian data for eastern Syria's Deir al-Zor province, currently split between the Syrian government, the Syrian Democratic Forces, and the Islamic State.

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  8. 14 hours ago

    The decree in question, Law No. 10 of 2018, can be read here in Arabic:

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  9. 14 hours ago

    A new law decreed by Bashar al-Assad allows his government to seize the property of Syrians driven from their homes, paving the way for large-scale dispossession—a Kafkaesque process with echoes of Israel's 1950 Absentee Property Law, writes .

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  10. 14 hours ago

    Probably the most detailed UN report on conditions in Afrin I've seen. It seems just over half the population remains in Afrin, with the rest displaced to YPG or SAA areas. "Several parties" ban IDPs from moving to better-supplied areas or returning home.

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  11. 14 hours ago

    Stories of life under the Islamic State as told in a rare women-only public space in Mosul: the hair salon. Great reporting from Iraq by :

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  12. 15 hours ago

    . notes that the attempts of senior U.S. officials to lock Trump into more traditional U.S. foreign policy posture is creating strategic incoherence in places like Syria, since Trump continues to intervene by fiat in support of his own ideas.

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  13. 16 hours ago

    Iraq Is Still the Key to U.S. Efforts to Stabilize the Arab World – good piece by on how a more stable, less conflicted Iraq would be a boon not only to Iraqis, but to the wider neighborhood as well.

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  14. Apr 17

    OPCW experts enter Douma city.

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  15. Apr 17

    Turkey and Greece ratchet up tension in the Mediterranean.

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    Apr 17

    More than 7 years into the war in moves to strip of his Legion d'Honneur

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  17. Apr 17

    Saudi FM Adel Jubeir comments on the reported U.S. request for Gulf troops and money in Syria by acknowledging talks on the issue, but also seems to frame the idea of Saudi & allied contributions as contingent on a continuing U.S. presence to piggyback on.

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  18. Apr 17

    Iraq: Women and children with perceived ties to IS denied aid, sexually exploited and trapped in camps report by

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  19. Apr 17

    After eastern Ghouta, Islam Army fighters begin the process of surrendering nearby Dumeir, reports al-Watan.

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  20. Apr 17

    As reported by , Trump's new Syria strategy hinges on handing over U.S.-protected, Kurdish-controlled northern Syria to an Arab coalition made up of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, the Emirates, and Egypt. But wait, have some more icing on your crazy-cake:

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  21. Apr 17

    'Big price to pay': Inside Trump's decision to bomb Syria by

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