Aron Lund

@aronlund

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

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    Jun 13

    The UN says more than twenty healthcare facilities in the Idlib region have been bombed since late April. My new report looks at one of the grimmest facets of the war in Syria, the killing of those whose job it is to save lives:

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  2. 12 hours ago

    Interactive map by shows, in very granular detail, how the Israeli occupying authorities' have closed off, carved up, annexed, and colonized Palestinian lands since 1967. via

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  3. 12 hours ago

    Two very good, level-headed texts on the crop fires in Syria. • : • :

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  4. 12 hours ago

    The Sahel in Flames: 's big briefing package on the humanitarian crises, jihadi insurgencies, and ethnic conflicts metastasizing across the Sahel and West Africa. Graphics, maps, and backgrounders on specific issues and nations. Don't miss!

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    13 hours ago

    Never forget this gem by Turkmenistan’s President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow. A musical ode to Turkmenistan.

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    トルクメニスタン大統領…？！ ポップすぎるでしょ
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  6. 14 hours ago

    Turkey! America! Breathe and count to ten, by .

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  7. 14 hours ago

    . in the Shaitat area of Deir al-Zor, which appears to be a rather complicated place.

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  8. 14 hours ago

    The Turkish Defense Ministry says it has retaliated against Syrian troops after an attack on one of its outposts in Idlib, and Cavusoglu insists that Russia and Iran are responsible for reining in their Syrian ally under the Astana agreement.

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  9. 14 hours ago

    Lebanese Defense Minister Elias Bou Saab says Russia can help demarcate the Syria-Lebanon sea border, hinting it would benefit Novatek's undersea gas exploration. He also hems and haws a little bit about those old Russia-Lebanon military cooperation plans.

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  10. 15 hours ago

    "Even war has rules – but in Syria, there are none." Two op-eds by on the attacks on hospitals in Syria:

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  11. 15 hours ago

    ‘Orientalism,’ then and now – .

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    Jun 14

    Algerians keep protesting for 17th consecutive week despite arrest of top officials

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    Jun 15

    Important read from , amid one of Lebanon's ugliest bouts of anti-Syrian sentiment since 2011

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  14. Jun 15

    New update on the Idlib crisis. On healthcare, it says 49 clinics have ended/suspended work since fighting began, with 15 later resuming their services. No recently updated figure on displacement: notes ~300,000 fleeing from April 1 to May 22.

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  15. Jun 14

    King Abdullah's regime is unwell, says : Jordan's social and economic crisis has started to acquire a pungent political smell, and the allies who would normally bail him out are either distracted or they pursue policies damaging to his rule.

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  16. Jun 14

    EU needs to stop sanctioning Syria based on the idea it can get Assad out, because it's just making things worse, writes , who proposes conditional re-engagement, sanctions relief, and a focus on e.g. prisoner releases.

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  17. Jun 14

    Åke Sellström warns that tasking OPCW with attribution & a confrontative approach to Syria will come at the expense of other tasks & may damage OPCW's standing by reinforcing perceptions of a Western bias. (via , who, I gather, does not agree)

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  18. Jun 14

    Here's WHO's database of attacks on healthcare. It doesn't offer detailed incident info (location, name), but shows numbers and trends. For example, nearly all confirmed attacks on medical facilities in the current Idlib offensive happened April 28–May 11.

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  19. Jun 14

    WHO list of Syrian medical facilities attacked in recent Idlib offensive, incl. seven that ostensibly deconflicted with OCHA, which has yet to offer clear confirmation. Not visible on this list: May 26 attack on Suqaylabiyeh, in government-held territory.

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  20. Jun 13

    The Russian government's bomb targeting might be all over the place, but at least its hearing is very selective. • Turkey: We're attacked by Assad's army. • Russia: Turkey is telling us it's under attack by anti-Assad terrorists.

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  21. Jun 13

    There are a few specific circumstances under which you can lawfully bomb a hospital that's being mislabeled/misused. UN investigators say that isn't what's happening: the SAA hasn't even tried to make a legal case, it just bombs and then denies doing so.

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