Syria Is Back to the Arab League
The Arab League has returned to Syria after 11 years of suspension. It is a victory for Syria but also for Saudi Arabia, which is asserting itself as the master of clocks on the Arab [...]
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh Article published in Haut-Karabakh: le livre noir, edited by Eric Denécée and Tigrane Yégavian. Ellipses, French Center for Intelligence Research, Paris, 2022 During its offensive against Karabakh, Azerbaijan used Syrian mercenaries. [...]
The middle East redesigned by the American hawks
Since the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States has converted to the Israeli doctrine with regard to the Arab and Muslim world. Gunboat diplomacy prevailed: Afghanistan and Iraq for the US; Lebanon and [...]
The Golan Heights
Map published in Atlas of Near East, Brill, Amsterdam, 2017 On December 14, 1981, Israel officially annexed the Golan Heights occupied since 1967 by its army. This measure complicates its possible return to Syria because [...]
The Iraqi economic situation-interview with Fabrice Balanche
In an exclusive interview for the CFRI, Fabrice Balanche discusses the current state of the Iraqi economic, heavily dependent on its oil exports. He explains why he thinks western companies could potentially do business with [...]
Atlas of the Near East
Cover Atlas of the Near East: State Formation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1918-2010 The Atlas of the Near East offers an in-depth examination of the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of the Arab Near [...]
World Bank: “Building for peace in North Africa and the Middle East” 2018-2020
In 2018, the World Bank in cooperation with GIZ (German cooperation) launched an applied research program on reconstruction in countries affected by conflict in North Africa and the Middle East (Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Libya). [...]
Mine Advisory Group (MAG): The security situation in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir al-Zor under SDF control 2022
This report aims to focus on the internal situation in North-East Syria in particular the relations between the Arab tribes and the Local Administration, Kurds and Arabs, the potential for destabilization coming from the Syrian [...]
Arab countries can have more influence in internationals affairs
Interview for the Algerian newspaper Horizons Published on April 1, 2023 Fabrice Balanche, specialist in Syria, analyzes the changes observed in the position of certain Arab countries vis-à-vis Syria. According to him, the earthquake that [...]
Iraq and Syria: Kurdish Autonomous Regions Under Threat
Published on March 4, 2023 in Groupe d'Etudes Géopolitiques In November of 2022, Turkey bombed Kurdish forces in Syria and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) in Northern Iraq in retaliation for the attack in Istanbul [...]