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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    21 hours ago

    Syrians are coming out of a cold winter, made much worse by a sudden shortage of heating oil and cooking gas. For , I take a look at Syria's fuel crisis and how it relates to Western sanctions and Syrian corruption.

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  2. 14 hours ago

    Hey, don't miss my latest on Syria! Experts tell me Western oil sanctions are doing bad things to ordinary Syrians, but US and EU diplomats say the root cause is with Assad's regime. Who's right? Have a look:

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  3. 14 hours ago

    Highly recommended: Thomas Serres walks you through the situation in Algeria in a Q&A for . A lot at stake here.

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  4. Mar 4

    Don't miss this: another really great podcast on how to report on Syria, and on Syrians who do not fit into the black-and-white rebel vs. regime narratives. interviews and .

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  5. Mar 4

    Algerian students protest against Bouteflika offer to shorten new term in power, by and Hamid ould Ahmed.

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    Feb 28

    We launched our 17th mandated report to the today, which documents continued hostilities and lawlessness countrywide. These factors render safe & sustainable return of displaced Syrians impossible. Report: Press Release EN:

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  7. Mar 1

    OPCW says both gas tubes, pimped with fins for use as air bombs, landed on roofs with enough velocity to smash through concrete. Unless one thinks SAA helicopters flew around dropping empty gas bombs and someone else released the gas, I'd say that narrows the range of suspects.

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  8. Mar 1

    OPCW Fact-Finding Team issues final report on the April 7, 2018, Douma incident and concludes that there are "reasonable grounds" to assume it was a chlorine gas attack. As I understand it, a separate investigation will look at the issue of who did it.

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  9. Mar 1

    Great conversation between , , and about reporting from inside government-held Syria: what sort of journalism can and can't be done from there, and how is the country changing?

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  10. Mar 1

    Very useful compilation and analysis of raw data on the Afrin insurgency, one of the most obscure sub-conflicts of the Syrian war, where Syrian-Kurdish fighters battle Turkish troops and allied Turkmen and Arab Syrian forces. Great work by .

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  11. Mar 1

    Hamza bin Laden går i pappa Osamas fotspår och hjälper al-Qaida tävla med Islamiska staten om en plats i rampljuset. Jag pratar lite om det i , 35 minuter in i sändningen:

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  12. Feb 28

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

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  13. Feb 28

    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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  14. 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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  16. Feb 25

    Assad in Tehran.

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  17. 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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  18. Feb 24

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

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  19. 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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