The US has met its goal for resettling Syrian refugees in 2016, and will aim to take in 110,000 more in 2017. A migration expert examines whether fears of their arrival are well founded.
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As a new cessation of hostilities comes into force, Russia’s influence over the Syrian conflict is deepening.
The Assad government is accused of using chlorine gas as a weapon against its own people.
At a time of intolerable destruction, a Syrian architect looks ahead to the serious task of reconstruction.
Ankara’s real target in Syria is the Kurds, but is Turkey getting bogged down on too many fronts?
A young boy is strapped with explosives and sent to detonate himself and those around him at a school. An expert on terrorism explains how and why children become embroiled in militant conflicts.
Cooperation between Tehran and Moscow is strictly limited to Syria.
Aleppo has 85,000 children. Dozens are injured every week, just like five-year old Omran Daqneesh whose pictures have shocked the world. Many have far worse injuries and will not survive.
The horrors of war in tweets and hashtags.
By striking deep in Bashar-al Assad’s heartland, Islamic State issued a reminder that his regime will never control all of Syria.
A Syrian town of Muslims and Christians stands united amid the country’s chaos.
Our collaboration with Point Taken, a new program from WGBH TV continues this week on the topic of Syrian refugees.
As part of a collaboration between The Conversation and PBS’s Point Taken, a professor from The Ohio State University examines some common misconceptions about Syrian refugees.
Unpaid volunteers are negotiating with Islamic State and facing military attacks as they try to save Syria’s ancient cities.
A majority of U.S. citizen oppose Syrian refugee resettlement. We run the numbers to put the perceived risk in perspective.
Stopping the conflict in Syria means solving a horrible array of intertwined, intractable problems.
On February 11 a Syrian ceasefire was signed in Munich. Few are optimistic it will hold. Why? Because, argues one Middle Eastern scholar, world leaders are ignoring key realities.
Well Santa has come and gone, at least for the largest proportion of the world’s population. And, as we reach the end of the year, it is inevitably time to review recent trends and the prospects for 2016…
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Professor of International Politics, Clinton Institute, University College Dublin
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British Academy Research Fellow, University of Oxford
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Professor of Anthropology, The Ohio State University
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Associate, German Institute for International and Security Affairs
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Professor of Islamic Studies, Head of School, The Centre for Islamic Studies and Civilisation, Charles Sturt University
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Tony Walker AM is a Friend of The Conversation.
Director, La Trobe University
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non-resident senior fellow Center for European Policy Analysis
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Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Sussex
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Professor in The Division of Global Affairs and The Department of Political Science, Rutgers University - Newark
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Lecturer, Department of Digitalization, Copenhagen Business School
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Professor of History and Political Science, University of Michigan
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Associate Professor of International Relations, Marmara University
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Professor of Middle Eastern Studies and Public Policy and Director of the Interdisciplinary Studies Institute, UMass Amherst
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Professor in the Department of Government, University of Essex