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Fabrice Balanche is a well know expert on Syria. Then left-wing extremists attacked his lecture.

By Fabrice Balanche|2025-06-02T14:34:42+02:001 June 2025|Media|

From Neue Zürcher Zeitung, May 27, 2025, by Lucien Scherrer An attack by students on a researcher galvanized France, revealing the cowardice and extremist tendencies at universities. Clad in masks, with hoods and hats concealing [...]

From Kirkuk to Deir ez-Zor: Threatened Kurdish Autonomies

By Fabrice Balanche|2023-09-11T19:20:25+02:0011 September 2023|Analysis, Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria|

Can the riots in Kirkuk be compared to the insurrection in Deir ez-Zor, Syria, where Arab tribes from the Euphrates Valley took up arms to oust the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces? An analysis by Fabrice [...]