By Fabrice Balanche|2024-12-07T17:36:48+01:007 December 2024|Analysis, Maps, Syria|
The city of Homs is resisting the assault of the jihadists who are blocked by the defense line established on the northern ring road. To break it, they could use suicide bombers like in Aleppo. [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-11-13T23:15:54+01:0013 November 2024|Analysis, Media, Middle-East|
DeFacto, November 13, 2024 On the global stage, Donald Trump’s key objective remains ensuring the United States retains its status as the preeminent world power in the 21st century. At the core of this vision [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-07-31T12:12:09+02:0031 July 2024|Analysis, Lebanon, Middle-East, Near-East|
After Fouad Cheker, head of Hezbollah's armed operations, killed on July 30, 2024, it is now Ismaël Hanyeh, the leader of Hamas abroad, who was eliminated today, July 31, 2024, by Israel. The first was [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-05-25T10:21:12+02:0025 May 2024|Analysis, Iraq, Kurdistan|
Drawing on his field-research and experience following the recent international symposium in Erbil: ‘Drought, and the Impact of Climate Change on the Political, Economic, and Demographic Situations of Iraq’, Fabrice Balanche presents his analysis of [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-04-13T09:45:28+02:0017 April 2024|Analysis, Iraq, Middle-East|
The specialist in Iraq and Syria, Fabrice Balanche, author of “The lessons from the Syrian crisis” (2024), examines the political and security news in Iraq in view of recent events in an interview for the [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-04-12T10:01:44+02:0012 April 2024|Analysis, Middle-East, Syria|
After the destruction of its consulate in Damascus, on April 1, Iran will retaliate against Israel. What will be the nature of Iranian retaliation? Iran does not want a direct confrontation against the Hebrew state [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-03-22T10:10:02+01:0022 March 2024|Analysis, Media, Middle-East|
This month marks the 13th anniversary of the start of the Syrian conflict. French academic Fabrice Balanche says that across the Middle East the West is steadily losing ground to Russia, China and Iran as [...]
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|2023-09-16T11:27:35+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 [...]
