The devastating earthquake that struck Syria on February 6, 2023, provided a humanitarian window for some Arab countries to mobilize in order to launch a second initiative to normalize relations with the regime, following the stumbling and failure of the first initiative, which was announced by King Abdullah II in 2021.
It is likely that the Brussels International donors’ conference postponed due to both technical and political reasons. However, the presence of the regime, directly or indirectly, in the Brussels conference is considered a violation of the position of the European Union, which is defined in its three no's.
On the morning of Wednesday, March 8, 2023, one of the headquarters of the Iranian militias in the Al-Hamidiyah neighborhood in the city of Deir Ezzor was bombed by the US-led International Coalition drones. The target site is a major narcotics manufacturing and production facility; as it contains raw materials and tablet presses for captagon pills production.
The UN Special Envoy for Syria gave a new briefing to the Security Council. This is the first time which he did not address the Constitutional Committee. Instead, he returned back to talking about the step-by-step policy and the confidence-building process and the conditions conducive to it; so, what are the implications of this for the political process?
Analysis published Jusoor Center for Studies on the late UN response to address the earthquake that struck northwest Syria.
In January 25, 2023, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) launched a wide-scale security operation. It covered the governorate of Raqqa as a whole in addition to the Serrin and its surrounding area eastern Aleppo. The operation is supported and covered by the US-led International coalition forces.
A map published by the Jusoor Center for Studies, in cooperation with the Infomagine Foundation, depicts the land crossings between Turkey and the affected areas after the
Mechanisms to address the Humanitarian Crisis in Northwest Syria Humanitarian catastrophe left by earthquake is expected to deplete all efforts for months as there is great humanitarian responsibility towards 100s of thousands of civilians in NW regions of Syria
A series of earthquakes struck Turkey and Syria, as its after-shocks and tremors reached Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine, in one of the largest and most dangerous earthquakes in the world in a decade. This devastated cities and states in southern Turkey and northern and northwestern Syria.
Reviewing the local and international developments that occurred in Syria in 2022 makes it seems like that 2023 does not bring major changes in the scene, with the exception of some repercussions resulting from the tense relations between international actors.
More than two months have passed since Türkiye launched the "claw-sword" military air operation against the PKK and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). Obviously, the level of escalation decreased 3 weeks after its announcement, which was on November 19, 2022.
During 2022, the Syrian opposition maintained its areas of control in northern and southern Syria without any new changes at the expense of the Syrian regime forces and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). However, on the other hand, some changes occurred in the map of internal influence within the areas controlled by the factions, specifically in northwestern Syria.
