> > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2024 at 12:00 PM MERIP <[email protected]> wrote: > >> View this email in your browser >> <https://mailchi.mp/81fdfdc2f112/the-syrian-civil-wars-new-phase?e=086111b704> >> >> *Middle East Research and Information Project* >> *Critical coverage of the Middle East since 1971* >> *The Syrian Civil War's New Phase* >> >> Selections from our archives >> >> *Dear Friends and Comrades,* >> >> *During the last week, we witnessed a surprising turn of events in >> Syria’s ongoing 13-year civil war. In the hours after a ceasefire agreement >> was reached between Hizballah and Israel, rebel forces in northwest Syria, >> led by the jihadist group Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and in coordination with the >> Syrian National Army and the Syrian Democratic Forces, launched a stunning >> and successful offensive to retake Aleppo. This war, which had entered a >> period of relative quiet in 2020, seems poised to enter a stage of >> heightened conflict amidst the already overwhelming violence of Israel’s >> war on Palestine and Lebanon. * >> >> *MERIP is currently hard at work finalizing our winter issue, due out in >> late January, which will explore the state of resistance since October >> 2023. The new developments in Syria highlight particular military and >> political vulnerabilities among the parties engaged in direct conflict with >> Israel: Hizballah signed a ceasefire (that has since collapsed) without a >> reciprocal ceasefire in Gaza, Iran scaled back its presence in Syria >> following Israeli missile attacks and Russia is preoccupied in Ukraine. >> These developments have left Bashar al-Asad’s forces without their usual >> buttresses. While exploring resistance as a military response, our winter >> issue also intends to widen the scope. Readers will encounter resistance >> as a state of mind and way of life for everyday citizens who are navigating >> Israel’s campaigns in Gaza and Lebanon, Syria’s civil war and dysfunctional >> or authoritarian regimes all at once. * >> >> *For now, we have compiled some important articles from the last decade >> that help explain the situation in Syria and illuminate how this conflict >> has developed over the last 13 years. * >> >> *In Solidarity,* >> >> >> *James Ryan Executive Director* >> The Tragedies and Dilemmas of US Intervention in Northeast Syria >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=a0af492791&e=086111b704> >> >> For our Spring 2020 issue, Sean Lee encapsulated the many-sided conflict, >> its ramifications for leftists, and the ultimate tragedy of a US-led >> intervention in the conflict that drove it to a bloody stalemate. >> Syria Dispatch >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=bb4cbf2739&e=086111b704> >> >> For our Summer 2017 issue, Samer Abboud laid out the politics of US >> intervention under the Obama and early Trump administrations. As Trump >> appears set to inherit a similar situation to eight years ago, Abboud’s >> analysis remains relevant. >> The Political Economy of Erdoğan’s Syria Gamble >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=f1444f6884&e=086111b704> >> >> Turkey’s role in the Syrian conflict has in many ways been a tool for >> re-sculpting its domestic political economy to benefit the clientelistic >> regime of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. As Şahan Savaş Karataşlı details in his >> 2019 essay, “Operation Peace Spring… will only further aggravate the >> interlinked economic and political problems facing the AKP-led >> government—regardless of whether Erdoğan wins his war on the Kurds of >> Rojava.” >> The Struggle for Syria's Regions >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=24a329b420&e=086111b704> >> >> This landmark article from 2013, informed by numerous interviews with >> participants in the initial 2011 uprisings, charts how the uprisings began >> to supersede Syria’s regional identities, and how violent clashes with the >> Asad regime dragged them back to relevance. The remarkable survival of the >> Asad regime has, in the estimation of Kheder Khaddour and Kevin Mazur, >> relied on the subtle manipulation of subnational regionality in addition to >> the sectarian nature of the conflict. >> Turkish Intervention in Syria Heightens Authoritarianism in Turkey and >> Fragmentation in Syria >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=9a6cc7b382&e=086111b704> >> >> The Turkish intervention in the Syrian conflict, as well as its support >> for Arab rebel forces, cannot be understood outside of the political >> economy of the AKP regime in Turkey. Sinem Adar wrote this piece in 2020 >> that clearly lays out Turkey’s aims to sideline Kurdish forces in favor of >> Sunni Arab rebel groups, and to demographically engineer both Syria and >> southeastern Turkey to bolster the AKP’s clients in Turkey. >> Explore Our Archive >> <https://merip.us15.list-manage.com/track/click?u=e18284b99bf49578897672d9a&id=617f14215d&e=086111b704> >> *Support MERIP! 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