The signs of American isolationism are continuously growing, becoming more frequent, and extending to more platforms on the international stage. The manifestations of this isolation are on the rise domestically or in terms of the US’s external relations, whether bilaterally…

Understanding the international positioning of every power and country involved in the Syrian issue is unavoidable to form a correct perception of the nature of the contradictory interests.

Some details and comparisons between the import costs of diesel oil and fertilizers, and between the costs of subsidizing them and the differences in selling them in the market, clarify which bloc of plundering public money is being talked about. 

The US has used sanctions for decades as a low-cost way of targeting its enemies. On their face and according to the declared policy, sanctions aim to change behaviors of “bad” governments and punish the “bad” guys. The US depends…

Several days ago, many regions in the northeastern part of the country, especially those around Ain Issa, witnessed a military escalation between the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) on the one hand, and the Turkish-backed armed groups on the other. This…

Over the last few years, we saw many examples of policies of the different international actors contributing to either effectuating partitioning of Syria or at least establishing it as a long-term fait accompli.

On Thursday, 10 December 2020, Joe Wilson, a US Congressman from South Carolina introduced a new bill under the name “Stop the Killing in Syria Act”, which looks like the so-called “Caesar Act” injected with a high dose of steroids.

Yesterday, Thursday, 10 December 2020, nearly 150 conservative US lawmakers submitted a bill to Congress titled “Stop the Killing in Syria”. The 32-pages Bill includes two titles and 16 sections, and numerous sub-sections.

It has been nearly six months since the so-called “Caesar Act” went into effect, and the living conditions of ordinary Syrians have deteriorated to catastrophic levels and more quickly over the last few months.

Some Syrian sides use the term “decentralization” as a “complete” characteristic of the new form of the Syrian state they seek. On the other hand, other sides use the term “centralization”, and their words are accompanied by “the possibility of…