Aron Lund

@aronlund

I write about the Middle East, mostly for the Swedish Institute of International Affairs, IRIN News, and The Century Foundation.

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    Oct 25

    The team asked me to write on the Syrian civil war's most important turning points, and I came up with a few – all of them involving non-Syrians making decisions about Syria. Read my submission here:

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  2. 18 hours ago

    And yes, the new UN Syria envoy looks likely to be a he, not a she. Some top candidates listed here:

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  3. 18 hours ago

    After years of hard work, Staffan de Mistura quits as UN Syria envoy. Unless his successor gets a new mandate more in tune with reality (either that, or a new reality more in tune with his mandate) then he, too, will fail to break the deadlock. My latest:

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  4. Oct 27

    Russia, Turkey, France, and Germany back the Idleb deal and praise its implementation, reaffirm the centrality of UNSCR 2254, and say the Constitutional Committee should happen in 2018. I can't see much of importance here except the list of participants.

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  5. Oct 27

    The fifth and last (or latest) installment in 's roundtable on the Syrian civil war, by .

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  6. Oct 27

    One more roundtable submission, from .

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  7. Oct 27

    Ankara-run N/W Syria continues to sever its links to Damascus: after councils rolled out new ID cards linked to Turkey's population registry, Azaz is first to ban the use of Damascus-issued IDs. Intent is clear, remains to see how systematic or effective.

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  8. Oct 27

    Another submission to the roundtable on the Syrian conflict's turning points, by .

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  9. Oct 27

    The International and the Local: 's submission to 's roundtable on critical turning points in the Syrian war.

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  10. Oct 27

    Terrific and terrifying primer on the desperate situation in the Rukban refugee camp, cut off from food due to a bizarre standoff between Damascus, Washington, and Amman, which senior aid officials refer to as “a breakdown of human decency.”

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  11. Oct 27

    Michael Gerini interviews Mouin Merebi, Lebanese minister of state for refugees.

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    Oct 26

    Netanyahu made an official visit to

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  13. Oct 26

    Staffan de Mistura now live on video teleconference with the Security Council, on what will become of the UN peace process in Syria.

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  14. Oct 26

    Tips: det här nyhetsbrevet är riktigt bra, för dig som är intresserad av islamism och Mellanöstern och som kan läsa skandinaviska.

    Lancering af nyt ugentligt nyhedsbrev: Min gode ven og jeg udsender hver fredag nyhedsbrevet 'Ekstremt Indhold', som…
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    Oct 26

    Kobani battle and Russian's support most important points

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  16. Oct 25

    Så blir västmedierna en bricka i Turkiets maktspel – jag skriver om Khashoggiaffären på .

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  17. Oct 25

    Creepy consulates aside, Yezid Sayigh points to the fundamentals of Saudi power: how Mohammed bin Salman's purge of rival third-generation princes has intersected with a drive to re-institutionalize security fiefdoms under centralized control.

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    Oct 24

    My piece with The War in Yemen Is a Tragedy—and America Can End Its Complicity via

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  19. Oct 24

    Smart piece looking at how Tahrir al-Sham ideologues manage overlapping but theoretically different projects, giving globalist salafi-jihadism a Syrian face and simultaneously rephrasing local rebel aspirations in salafi-jihadi terms, by .

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