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Roadmap to where?

The EU reconfigures its relationship to Syrian civil society The European Union’s new Roadmap for Civil Society Engagement marks a break in how Brussels approaches Syrian civil society: away from viewing it as a social movement and political force shaping state formation; and towards framing it as a local stabilisation …

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La guerre contre l’Iran 3.0

Lorsque la marine américaine, en coordination avec le Qatar et Oman, a tenté de faire passer un convoi de quatre navires dans le détroit d’Ormuz, via les eaux omanaises, mardi soir — plutôt que de passer par la route officiellement approuvée par l’Iran — Trump a peut-être imaginé (ou on …

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Integration blues

As opaque negotiations on SDF integration grind on, the city of Qamishli lives with parallel authorities, shrinking subsidies and growing uncertainty over who will govern nextHow is the SDF integration process going? On the streets of Qamishli many people say they just don’t know. Government forces, at least, are nowhere …

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