Continuing with the fourth work in our five-article series on the current war on Iran, we are adopting the strategic lens of Arabia, defined as the whole of Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Palestine, Saudi-Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates (hereinafter: UAE), Oman and Yemen. In this article, we put ourselves in the position...
With the President of Syria, Bashar al-Assad, fleeing the lands he and his family governed for almost 50 years, Syria is now a failed state in the definitional sense. Although being dysfunctional for most of the past century, the collapse of the Syrian government is another case in a series of failed states in Sub-Anatolian...