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 29

    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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  2. 5 hours ago

    Really terrific report by on the deepening Russian-Turkish relationship:

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    : Joint Statement by , and on the 11th International meeting on in Nov 28-29, 2018

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  4. Nov 28

    Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim al-Shaar will reportedly ride off into the sunset as deputy head of the National Progressive Front: More importantly, Maj. Gen. Naser Samie Dib is, also reportedly, Syria's new head of Political Security:

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  5. Nov 27

    . on de Mistura’s four years as Syria envoy.

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  6. Nov 26

    Syrian cabinet reshuffle and administrative reform: among other things, Assad installs Political Security's Mohammed Rahmoun as interior minister (replacing Mohammed Ibrahim Shaar) and shifts Ali Heidar from minister of state to new Reconciliation Agency.

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  7. Nov 26

    Beirut rejects Russia's offer of free ammunition for the Lebanese army, after previous plans for Russian-Lebanese military cooperation went MIA inside the Lebanese bureaucratic labyrinth. Russia is upset and so is al-Akhbar, and both blame U.S. pressure.

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  8. Nov 24

    Handy primer on Islamic State ideological factionalism that sketches out a rough three-way typology, but also questions how relevant all this is to the group's operations, by .

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  9. Nov 23

    As Lebanon's economy coughs and splutters, a growing trickle of Syrian and Palestinian refugees has started to seek entry to the EU by taking rickety smugglers' boats to Cyprus. on a could-be crisis with potentially serious ramifications:

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  10. Nov 20

    UN Syria envoy de Mistura postpones resignation to try to convene long-delayed constitutional committee: • Security Council debate: • For a primer on the committee, read this and click the Read More button:

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  11. Nov 19

    Life in southern Syria under the Baath: • gets a favorable view, compared to Khaled Army. • reports arrests, killings, disappearances—seemingly a mix of mukhabarat action, private lawsuits, and vendettas.

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  12. Nov 18

    Humanitarian deconfliction: on how the United Nations collects self-reported data from warring parties in Yemen and Syria to create "no strike lists" of schools, hospitals, etc. Mixed success, but likely to continue for lack of better ideas.

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  13. Nov 16

    The Syrian army wishes you a merry Corrective Movement day.

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  14. Nov 16

    Azzam al-Kassir on Syria's newly adopted Law 31/2018, on state management of the most powerful force in Syrian civil society: Islam. Reorganizes the institutional structure, centralizes control to the Ministry of Awqaf.

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  15. Nov 14

    Application of Syria's Law 10 will start in June 2018 in Qaboun, Barzeh, and Jobar. Registered home owners will get new housing, unregistered slum dwellers won't. via Amended law: Background:

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    Nov 7

    's sanctions on came into effect on Monday, but they're unlikely to achieve their goal of isolating Iran. See my take via

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  17. Nov 11

    From Freeze Aleppo to Freeze Geneva: argues new UN Syria envoy should shut down political talks until Damascus delivers progress on—not transition, but lower-level issues like refugee return, aid access, and information on disappeared prisoners.

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  18. Nov 10

    In his write-up of the Druze hostage affair, says the U.S. garrison at Tanf has left the Syrian desert with an incoherent security architecture and ungoverned space open for Islamic State exploitation.

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  19. Nov 9

    . on Iraq's new cabinet, whose main redeeming feature is that it exists.

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  20. Nov 8

    More on Syria, Law 10/2018, and reconstruction: • visits Marota City, the Decree 66/2012 pilot project for all forthcoming Law 10 redevelopment zones: • Feisal Meqdad says the government wants a full return to Yarmouk:

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  21. Nov 8

    Kheder Khaddour on how Damascus seeks to regularize its "hybrid" armed forces, which include legacy SAA and pre-war paramilitary forces, but also lots of militias that sprouted since 2011 with many different kinds of legal and material ties to the state.

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