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|2024-09-26T06:58:11+02:0025 September 2024|Lebanon, Middle-East, Publication|
Fabrice Balanche, in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution, Are Knudsen and Michael Kerr, 2012, London, Hurst, 323 p. The socio-economic dimensions of the Lebanese conflict have often been overlooked in favour of political and geopolitical readings [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-06-29T13:11:26+02:0029 June 2024|Events, Middle-East, Syria|
On June 26, 2024, I had the honor of receiving the geopolitical book prize for my latest work: Lessons from the Syrian crisis. Jean-Louis Bourlanges, the President of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the National [...]
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|2024-03-22T11:53:37+01:0022 March 2024|Media, Syria|
Original article from Le Figaro written by Charles Jaigu CHRONICLE – Geographer Fabrice Balanche offers a powerful analysis of the Syrian war. This excellent teacher of a confusing reality dismantles once and for all the faults [...]
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 [...]
