By Fabrice Balanche|2024-01-29T14:53:29+01:0029 January 2024|Analysis, Iraq, Middle-East, Syria|
Iran is increasingly extending its influence across the Middle East and beyond, particularly through militias its control in Lebanon, Iraq, Syria, and Yemen. Fabrice Balanche is a assistant Profesor at the University of Lyon 2, [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-10-08T01:09:43+02:008 October 2023|Maps, Middle-East|
Israel threatened despite regional cooperation Fabrice Balanche
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-09-16T11:27:35+02:0016 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 [...]
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-05-11T09:38:59+02:0011 May 2023|Media, Syria|
Interview for France 24 (in French), May 11, 2023. By Bahar MAKOOI Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, guest of the next Arab League summit scheduled for May 19 in Saudi Arabia. Something unthinkable a few months [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-05-09T08:58:44+02:007 May 2023|Analysis, Syria|
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-23T21:30:51+02:0023 April 2023|Middle-East, Publication|
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. [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T13:46:21+02:002 April 2023|Maps, Middle-East, Near-East|
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T11:58:29+02:002 April 2023|Maps, Near-East|
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 [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T10:21:28+02:002 April 2023|Analysis, Iraq|
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 [...]
