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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    Jan 16

    After weeks of diplomatic mayhem over the U.S. retreat from Syria, relief workers in the area tell me the uncertainty has upended their plans and could kill civilians. For , I look at the politics of a pullout and the even messier politics of aid:

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  2. 18 hours ago

    Children in Syria's Rukban camp are dying at a rate of one every five days, says .

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  3. 18 hours ago

    Surrealist art of the deal: Israelis get Jerusalem and, in return, Arabs get to pay 65 billion dollars. No takers so far. • •

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  4. Feb 26

    A year after the Syrian army retook the eastern Ghouta region, what is life like there now, and what happened to the civilians and armed groups that left for northern Syria? Report by : (Ar.) (En.)

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    Feb 25

    Hezbollah to be added to UK list of terrorist organisations

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  6. Feb 25

    Assad in Tehran.

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  7. Feb 25

    By far the most detailed and nuanced study of women's rights in northeastern Syria that I have seen to date, investigating the practical and institutional implementation of PYD feminism in a conservative, wartorn society. Excellent work by .

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  8. Feb 24

    On Faleh al-Fayyad and why he's such a big deal all of a sudden, by .

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  9. Feb 24

    Part-informative and part-conspiratorial survey of Syria's social and economic crisis, conscription campaigns, and fuel shortages, by : English translation:

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    Feb 21

    Facing defeat in Syria, hundreds of Islamic State group fighters have slipped across the border into Iraq, where the extremist group is trying to reassert itself and destabilize the country’s fragile security. and report

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    Feb 22

    Facing Protests, Sudan’s Leader Declares Yearlong State of Emergency

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  12. Feb 22

    . convenes the first meeting of the Syria Study Group, a twelve-member group mandated by the U.S. Congress to recommend a new, comprehensive Syria policy.

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  13. Feb 22

    USA will keep 200 "peacekeepers" with air cover in Syria, spread across N/E and Tanf. Sounds like a temporary and haphazardly improvised stopgap, even if EU were to add own troops. • •

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  14. Feb 21

    Fantastic resource: and the team are publishing a free-of-charge 241-page book collecting professionally translated legal texts regulating the Syrian security sector, from the draft to defense procurement and anti-terror laws.

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  15. Feb 21

    Handy write-up of the Tahrir al-Sham/al-Qaeda situation, by . Also: a translated Abu Abdullah al-Shami letter discussing plans for a cross-factional military council, the coming centerpiece of Tahrir's Salvation gambit.

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  16. Feb 21

    Nir Rosen on the political dead end in which Syria finds itself after Assad won a victory that hasn't ended the war; castigates Western policy, warns that the country could still fall apart, and proposes ways forward.

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  17. Feb 21

    Long report by and trying to discern a political logic in Syrian chemical weapons use.

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  18. Feb 21

    Syrian government strategies to cope with gas crisis: • Ends state monopoly on gas imports. • Crackdowns on smuggling rings. • Cuts parallel distribution for public sector, hints it's been widely abused.

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  19. Feb 20

    On the American-Gulf and intra-Gulf diplomacy over how, when, and also if relations with Damascus should be normalized, by and .

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  20. Feb 20

    Myriam Youssef writes about life in Damascus, seething with aimless political frustration and social despair.

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  21. Feb 19

    Har pratat lite Syrien på .

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