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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    Dec 14

    Syria's Civil War: Government Victory or Frozen Conflict? My new 79-page report for looks at the evolution of the conflict, all major internal and foreign actors, and five key questions that will determine Syria's future. Download it here:

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  2. 35 minutes ago

    Syrian military high command announces that its units are entering Manbij and raising the Syrian national flag.

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  3. 48 minutes ago

    YPG asks the Syrian government to enter Manbij to prevent a Turkish attack.

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  4. 19 hours ago

    More Syrian-Arab normalization news: UAE reopens Damascus embassy after seven years, expressing "keenness to restore relations between the two brotherly countries to their normal course" and "prevent the dangers of regional interference in Syrian affairs."

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  5. 19 hours ago

    Foreign interventions freeze the conflict in Syria - short piece at about my new report:

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  6. 23 hours ago

    Turkey's top national security figures—FM Cavusoglu, DM Akar, Erdogan's adviser Kalin, and MIT's Fidan—will be in Moscow tomorrow to discuss how to slice up northeastern Syria after the Americans leave.

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  7. 23 hours ago

    Julklapp till Moskva eller tickande bomb? Skriver i om det amerikanska tillbakadragandet från Syrien.

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    Dec 21

    .: "Yemen, as should be clear, has a Humpty Dumpty problem: the country has broken into several different pieces and is unlikely to ever be put back together again."

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  9. Dec 23

    Syrian National Security Director Ali Mamlouk makes an official visit to Egypt, which—and this is a first—is officially announced in both Syrian and Egyptian media.

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  10. Dec 23

    Pay raise for Syrian soldiers and, especially, military pilots.

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    Dec 23

    Sudan: Protests over price hikes continue for fifth day

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  12. Dec 23

    Pentagon officials hope to keep striking inside Syria as needed, by rebasing forces in Iraq. &

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  13. Dec 23

    Trump didn't lose Syria: the policy was fundamentally unworkable and had locked America into an unwinnable battle, writes and Richard Sokolsky.

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  14. Dec 23

    "Cold strategic logic was eventually going to dictate the defenestration of the Syrian Kurds," writes Steven Simon, who says the US would be better off by easing the Syrian government back in than by allowing a violent Turkish takeover. via

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  15. Dec 23

    The Syrian Observatory guy claims Syrian Red Crescent chairman Khaled Hboubati has been caught in some sort of corruption dragnet. Syrian Red Crescent cries false news, threatens to sue:

    : With reference to the fabricated & misleading disseminated about the , SARC calls upon all & pages to stop circulating the mentioned…
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  16. Dec 23

    As Syria war winds down, refugees stay put despite hardships

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  17. Dec 22

    And there goes Brett McGurk, though to be fair he already had one foot out the door.

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  18. Dec 22

    . sees a coming US-EU split over how to handle Assad-ruled Syria: Americans want to keep sanctions on, basically forever, while some Europeans want to loosen the screws in the hope of, at least, stability (which, Lister says, is impossible).

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  19. Dec 22

    Long and detailed on the Trump-Erdogan phone call and Mattis's resignation, by , , , and . via

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  20. Dec 22

    So was Erdogan's threat to attack northeastern Syria his way of getting a direct strategy chat with Trump, bypassing all the stay-the-courseist aides? by

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    Dec 19

    i never quite got my head round the fact that President Trump was backing a Communist militia controlling the upper Euphrates in the first place.

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