Aron Lund

@aronlund

I write about the Middle East and North Africa for The Century Foundation, The New Humanitarian, and SIPRI.

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    Jun 24

    I worked all winter and spring to ruin your summer holiday: • A comprehensive report on the Syrian war • Russian Middle East policy • 75 years of Russian-Syrian relations For /. Read!

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  2. 32 minutes ago

    Netanyahu-style prop comedy at the UN by Erdogan, who vows to move millions of Syrians from Turkey to the, uh, "peace corridor" that he plans to build on top of—this is an amazing coincidence—every Kurdish town in Syria. Full video:

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  3. Sep 23

    Neat demonstration by of why one should maintain a healthy skepticism toward unverifiable claims coming out of Syria. In this case, a viral video of Kurdish SDF troops abusing Arabs turns out to be a forgery by Turkey and/or its rebel allies.

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    The video wasn't taken in SDF-controlled areas, Verify-Sy platform reveals new details regarding a video that has been circulating social media under the title "SDF members assaulted a man with his wife and child…
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  4. Retweeted
    Sep 23

    My take on the region’s spiralling problems. Adversarial relations need not be in perpetual crisis. A regional modus vivendi is needed to contain & manage rivalries. No one can have their way. There is no alternative to sharing the region.

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  5. Sep 23

    Russia says the UN is faking its internal reporting about medical facilities being bombed in Syria, and urges UN investigators to instead rely on information provided by the Russian Defense Ministry. Refers to this investigation:

    UN Sec-Gen Guterres orders an official investigation into the targeting of "deconflicted" medical clinics in Syria, reports : . My primer on the UN's deconfliction system and its previous efforts to stop the attacks:
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  6. Sep 23

    Backing Russian-language education is part of a broader soft power push in Syria by Moscow; it seems poorly funded but benefits from a strong military-political role and deep historical ties. See pages 45-47 of my paper on Russia-Syria relations:

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  7. Sep 23

    Studying Russian is starting to look like a smart career choice in Syria, reports 's Khaled al-Khateb: via

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  8. Sep 22

    New anti-government demonstrations in the Deir al-Zor region fit into a context of growing tension between pro-Assad forces and the SDF along the Euphrates, writes 's Ahmed Jamal. But it's pretty murky, all of it—trade closures, too.

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  9. Sep 22

    Damascus had pushed to include an SDF-linked Shammar leader, which Turkey finally okayed. Not necessarily good news for SDF, since Damascus is trying to peel off Arab tribal groups. Meanwhile, protests in Qamishli against exclusion of northeastern Syrians:

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  10. Sep 22

    Syria's constitutional committee finally slouches towards Geneva to be born, after key details were ironed out in the recent Russian-Iranian-Turkish talks, write : and :

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  11. Sep 22

    Continued protests in Egypt, small but significant for happening at all given a decidedly non-permissive political climate. Backgrounder on the online campaigning that seems to have started it all, by and :

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  12. Sep 22

    Greek police arrests a suspect in the June 1985 TWA 847 hijacking, linked to Hezbollah.

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  13. Sep 22

    Bruised, battered, and ruthlessly pragmatic, Tahrir al-Sham is preparing for both compromises and killings to keep Idleb under its own control and under Turkish protection, writes , who sees this Gaza-style future for Idleb as a least-bad outcome.

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  14. Sep 22

    More, broader, faster U.S. counter-terror sanctions on the way, write and . Trump already made prolific use of sanctions as a foreign policy tool, with a third of all designations since 2001 done on his watch. via

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  15. Sep 20

    Murhaf al-Akhras, who is a second cousin of Bashar al-Assad's wife, Asma, was mysteriously kidnapped in Lebanon and then mysteriously released. via

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  16. Sep 20

    Gen. Gaïd Salah starts choking off protests in Algiers by ordering the gendarmerie to block demonstrators arriving from outside the capital, warns that Algeria is being targeted by a "dangerous plot aiming to destroy our country."

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  17. Sep 20

    Musical chairs for the parties, but no real changes in political preferences—the election shows that Israel remians a solidly rightwing country, writes .

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    Sep 20

    How can locally focused interventions play a role in building peace at the local level in ? SIPRI Essay by demonstrates how local can provide a better basis for a high-level political settlement in ➡️

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  19. Sep 20

    Did the Abqaiq oil price bump already deflate? Or will it zigzag on upwards? I'm very much not an expert, but I guess in so far as market fears related to risks of war, Trump not taking the bait must have been soothing. Which isn't to say repeat disruptions won't be a huge issue.

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  20. Sep 19

    Tunisia holding its second free presidential election in a row appears to have killed Ben Ali.

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  21. Sep 19

    Russia and China veto a draft resolution demanding a ceasefire in Idleb, and a rival Russian-Chinese draft gets too few votes to pass. Useful background: New humanitarian briefing on Syria by :

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