 Alexander Haddad and Yeghia Tashjian
On January 7, 2026, the White House announced the US withdrawal from 66 international organizations, conventions, and treaties. This comes after the already announced withdrawal in 2025 from UNESCO, the Paris Climate agreement (both anew after first withdrawals in 2017 and in 2019 respectively, then reversed by President Biden) and the World Health Organization (WHO).  Zedoun AlZoubi
One year after the fall of the Assad regime and Ahmed Al-Sharaa's dramatic rise to power, Syria continues to face existential questions: How will Syria confront the dangers of division, economic collapse, Israeli occupation, civil war, and terrorism? These risks are not, of course, independent of one another; rather, they are intertwined and feed into one another. These risks became apparent one day after the arrival of Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham forces and allied factions in Damascus. Do these risks still exist today? Have they decreased or increased? What is the new president’s policy for addressing these risks? And most importantly, will Syria survive, and how will it do so? |