Category: 2. Editor’s Choice

The fall of the Syrian regime has been a major blow to Russian interests in Syria: after all, the rebels now in power are the same ones Russia has been bombing for almost a decade. However, that does not mean the Kremlin’s foreign policy in the…

In the last week of November, the Russian currency saw its biggest fall since the spring of 2022. In just two days, the ruble dropped 10 percent against both the U.S. dollar and the Chinese yuan. That put the ruble down 20 percent since the start…

The speed of recent advances made by armed groups in northern Syria came as a surprise for Damascus. But the inability of Bashar al-Assad’s regime to hold back the rebels is easily explainable by the weakness of its allies: Iran and Hezbollah…