After their brutal sieges, evacuation schemes and relentless attacks on Syrian cities and towns, the Syrian regime and Russia are keen to promote the reconciliation areas as safe and suitable for the return of the displaced Syrians. Ironically, the Syrian regime and Russian forces were, and remain, the main drivers of the displacement of Syrians. […]
About two months after the Daraa agreement, which stipulated the withdrawal of medium and light weapons from the city, major concerns have been raised over the security of those wanted by the regime as well as those who have joined the regime forces. Recently there seems to be a policy of assassinating young men who […]
Introduction It’s been six years since the Russian intervention in Syria, an intervention the Syrian regime and Russia like to term as “war on terror”, which in fact was never anything but a war on the Syrians themselves. After losing control of most of Syria’s territory, the Syrian regime was on the verge of collapsing. […]
Sohaib Boushi, Nader Abosaleh. In 2018, local notables from southern Syria concluded a reconciliation agreement between the opposition factions from that region and the Syrian regime, under a Russian tutelage. Syrian Association for Citizens Dignity has analysed the failure of this reconciliation agreement in a paper published last year. Since the publication of the […]
Introduction “Reconciliation agreements” have been used by the Syrian regime as a tool of establishing control over areas formerly held by opposition forces following brutal sieges and devastating campaigns of force often directed against the civilian population. The former head of the Syrian People’s Assembly, Hadiya Abbas, described the reconciliation agreements being offered by Assad’s […]