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Despite the assassination of the Russian ambassador in Turkey, Ankara is part of a new ad-hoc coalition with Moscow and Tehran in the MiddleEast.
The images we have seen of Aleppo could play an important role in future discourses about the responsibility to protect.
What happens to the Islamic State if it loses the battle for territory in Iraq and Syria? Here’s a list of ways it might go down.
Droughts can be a factor in some armed conflicts, but that’s nothing new.
Rates of child marriage increase among refugee communities, where rates of sexual violence are high and opportunities for families low.
Integrating large refugee populations goes far beyond simply offering citizenship to some.
The international community seems totally incapable of stopping the bloodshed in Syria. But we can express our outrage.
A volunteer force that provides humanitarian aid in the worst of conditions, the White Helmets are the target of some very caustic conspiracy theory.
Politicians are still debating whether climate change is real, but military planners call it a serious threat. A retired rear admiral explains how climate change affects U.S. national security.
The US has met its goal for resettling Syrian refugees in 2016, and will aim to take in 110,000 more in 2017. A migration expert examines whether fears of their arrival are well founded.
As a new cessation of hostilities comes into force, Russia’s influence over the Syrian conflict is deepening.
The Assad government is accused of using chlorine gas as a weapon against its own people.
At a time of intolerable destruction, a Syrian architect looks ahead to the serious task of reconstruction.
Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
A young boy is strapped with explosives and sent to detonate himself and those around him at a school. An expert on terrorism explains how and why children become embroiled in militant conflicts.
Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is strictly limited to Syria.
Aleppo has 85,000 children. Dozens are injured every week, just like five-year old Omran Daqneesh whose pictures have shocked the world. Many have far worse injuries and will not survive.
The horrors of war in tweets and hashtags.
By striking deep in Bashar-al Assad’s heartland, Islamic State issued a reminder that his regime will never control all of Syria.
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology, Director, Transnational Research Lab, The Ohio State University
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Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
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Tony Walker is a Friend of The Conversation.
Vice-Chancellor's Fellow, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Islamic Studies, Director of The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation and Executive Member of Public and Contextual Theology, Charles Sturt University
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Marmara University
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Chargé d'enseignement International Public Affairs, Sciences Po
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer in International Relations, University of Sussex
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Professor, Department of Government, University of Essex
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Chair, Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, and Associate Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy, UMass Amherst
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Lecturer, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School
