Upon seeing SAM’s remarkable plans for a medical complex in northwest Syria, I immediately wondered when it might be targeted

No one should be able to kill with impunity. By my counting, civilian deaths due to Jordanian bombing have been

Although Captagon is part of the US-led Global Coalition to Address Synthetic Drug Threats, its proliferation is primarily a Middle

Facing US pressure over terror financing and money laundering by Iran, the Central Bank of Iraq introduced regulations to restrict

With 2023 drawing to a close, our captagon seizure database at the New Lines Institute shows some incredibly interesting trends.

In August 2023 alone, ten death sentences in absentia have been issued for narcotics-related crimes in Syria. Here I show

This is the exact opposite of what sanctioning countries claim to do: target the Assad regime and spare innocent civilians.

While the Syrian regime’s pro-Palestine propaganda blares ever louder, guess where Bashar al-Assad’s elite Fourth Armed Division is? Not defending

Like it or not, Western policymakers and Syrian politicians can’t afford to ignore HTS for much longer. With the military

Studying local actors in the Syrian conflict can make your head spin: most allegiances are driven above all by outright