Navvar Şaban is a conflict analyst and expert at Omran Center for Strategic Studies and a non-resident researcher at ORSAM. He is a MBA holder from the Australian University of Wollongong in Dubai. He holds a Bachelor in Computer Science from the American University in Dubai, and a diploma in Military Studies from İstanbul Sabahattin Zaim Üniversitesi in Istanbul. His field of interest is Syria, specializing in Iranian influence in Syria, focusing on their militia activity in the military, economy, and at the administration level.
Syria has experienced many foreign interventions in recent years. The extent of intervention varies from country to country, depending on the international and political interests involved in the intervention. At the beginning of the Syrian conflict, some countries’ interventions were limited to the military and security spheres, while other countries’ interventions went beyond the military and security spheres and extended to the cultural, economic, and political spheres, and even intervened
Daraa Governorate in southern Syria has a special status compared to the rest of the Assad regime’s control areas. Regional and external factors usually directly affect the security situation in the governorate, which the regime regained control over through the reconciliation agreement in the summer of 2018, which was preceded by a de-escalation agreement between the United States, Russia, and Jordan in July 2017. The reasons for the recent developments,
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In the elections, al-Assad tried to send a clear message
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Syria has experienced many foreign interventions in recent years. The extent of intervention varies from country to country, depending on the international and political interests involved in the intervention. At the beginning
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Daraa Governorate in southern Syria has a special status compared to the rest of the Assad regime’s control areas. Regional and external factors usually directly affect the security situation in the governorate,
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In the elections, al-Assad tried to send a clear message to both the Syrian opposition and his foreign opponents that their dreams of overthrowing him were over, and many of al-Assad’s supporters
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