Russia ramps up strikes on Islamic State in Syrian desert
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Russia ramps up strikes on Islamic State in Syrian desert
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Syrian tribe forms Shura Council in Idlib with blessing from jihadist group
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Haian Dukhan is a Carnegie postdoctoral fellow at the Central European University’s Centre for Religious Studies. He is the author of State and Tribes in Syria: Informal Alliances and Conflict Patterns (Routledge, 2019). Dukhan is a contributor to Fikra Forum.
Ammar Alhamad is an MA student in international relations at Hasan Kalyoncu University in Gaziantep, Turkey. He is from Raqqa and has worked for different international organizations on issues related to the Syrian conflict since 2013. Alhamad is a contributor to Fikra Forum.
Brief Analysis
Iran is building military, social, and economic influence among eastern Syrian tribes, which are poised to invade SDF-controlled regions in the event of a U.S. withdrawal.