by MENA Task Force | Oct 23, 2020 | Peace & Conflict Management, Policy Brief
MENA Task Force Brief by Ibrahim Jouhari, Emre Bilgin, Onur Sultan, Furkan Akar, Hasan Suzen OCTOBER 23, 2020| 14 min read Background On May 8, 2018, the US President Donald Trump, announced the US unilaterally withdrew from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action...
by Dr. Mehmet Mukerrem Ari* | Oct 14, 2020 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management, Research
Abstract The main effort in this article is to find out the main causes of the Syrian Civil War via questioning the common discourse that presents sectarian fault lines as the main cause. In this context, this article argues that instead of a reductionist sectarian...
by Erman Atak* | Jun 12, 2020 | Commentary, Peace & Conflict Management
Following their success in the west of Libya and Al-Watiya airbase, GNA advance continued this week. Tripoli International airport and its neighbouring towns like Ain Zara, Wadi Al-Rabi in the south of the capital are now under the GNA control. Failing to withstand...
by Erman Atak* | May 29, 2020 | Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management, Research
By Erman Atak* and Stefano Marcuzzi** Despite the growing number of Covid-19 victims in Libya in mid-May,[1] the civil war in the country is reaching new highs. The capital Tripoli has been under siege from the leader of eastern Libya-based self-styled Libyan...
by Amb.Nureddin Mazen* | May 28, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management
Slightly more than a year passed over start of retired General Khalifa Haftar’s attack on the Libyan capital, Tripoli. It was on April 4, 2019 exactly, a time when Libyans were awaiting the holding of the Libyan Forum on April 14, 2019 in the city of Ghadames as a...
by Ibrahim Jouhari | Mar 6, 2020 | Commentary, Geopolitics & Great Power Politics, Peace & Conflict Management
Several weeks ago, the Syrian regime decided to take one of the last holdouts of the rebels, in Idlib. The area is right at the border with Turkey, and after the Sochi agreement, Turkey has a military presence there in the form of several observation posts, ensuring...
