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Since the immoral and illegal EU/Turkey Deal was enacted on 20 March 2016, it seems as if we have written almost once a week about the...

We had intended to publish this yesterday, 7 October 2019, but as news broke of the Trump administration’s decision to ‘stand aside’ and...

i. Turkey to be ‘allowed’ to enter/invade Northern Syria The US’ White House Press Spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham announced this morning...

2019 Statistics so far 1. New arrivals by sea 2. Transfers from the islands to mainland 3. Other removals from the islands 4. Detention...

The United Nations does not exist. More to the point (though ‘more to the point’ may seem counterintuitive here), the UN Security Council...

Having been working on the international humanitarian response to the Syrian Civil War – and its effects across the world – for several...

Arrivals to Eastern Aegean islands, 1 January – 4 April 2018, inclusive Lesvos, 3,079. Total arrivals since 30 March: 351. Chios, 397....

The – justified – outrage over the impounding of the ship ‘Open Arms’ has its roots in Italy’s refusal to make a case for aiding...

The exact date of the anniversary of the initiation of the EU/Turkey Deal is a matter of some debate, as the document was signed on 16...

Syrian journalist and activist Bahia al Mardini dismisses claims that Bashar al Assad has ‘won’ the war in Syria, and calls for democracy...

Saad Hariri, Lebanon’s Prime Minister, has withdrawn his resignation from the role. We have noted in some detail the situation...

In a joint statement after talks in Sochi, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish and Iranian counterparts Recep Tayyip Erdogan...

Russia has used its veto at the UN Security Council for the tenth time in the almost seven years of the Syrian civil war, once again to...

Crux, a Catholic news site, has become the latest commentator to call for the creation of ‘safe zones’ in Syria, which Syrian people...

The United Nations’ Joint Investigative Mechanism reports that Bashar al Assad launched sarin gas projectiles at Khan Sheikun, a...

IS appears to have suffered further set-backs in Syria, with the announcement by the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF – a US-backed...

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Joanathan has told the Rhodes Forum that far from preventing wars, the UN has ‘only succeeded in...

In an article for the Begin-Sadat Centre for Strategic Studies, Lieutenant Colonel Dr Mordechai Kedar warns that Shias in Iraq and in...