Ibrahim Hamidi

In the early 1990s, Bashar al-Assad was living in London. His days were spent in laboratories, his spare hours in cafés and nightclubs. The ‘doctor’…

Over the years, America’s support for the Kurds has ebbed and flowed. The relationship has included periods of White House backing, followed by…

When a decision maker approaches the autumn of life, he is no longer speaking only to allies, adversaries, and mediators. In the solitude of their…

In 2015, Iran signed the nuclear agreement under Barack Obama’s administration, which separated the nuclear file from missiles and regional influence…

During armed clashes between the Syrian army and the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and subsequent negotiations between President Ahmed al-Sharaa and…

In recent days, Kurdish fighters who spent years building vast tunnel networks in the border area between Syria, Iraq, and Türkiye have begun to…

In 2011, amid heightened anti-government protests in Libya, a Western intelligence official delivered a message to Moussa Koussa—a key security…

Following an intensive round of negotiations in Damascus led by Mazloum Abdi, commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, and conducted under close US…

Across the Red Sea and the Horn of Africa, crises do not exist in vacuums. They intertwine and reinforce one another. What at first glance appear to…

One of the last big things Rifaat al-Assad ever did was flee Syria, having lived long enough to see his family’s half-century of rule come crashing…