Omer Behram Ozdemir is a Levant Studies Expert at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. He received his Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from Canakkale 18 March University, and was awarded a master’s degree in International Relations by Sakarya University where he is pursuing a PhD. From 2011 to 2020, he worked as a Research Assistant at Sakarya University at the Middle East Institute and the Faculty of Political Sciences. He has authored articles, book chapters and analyses on the Syrian civil war, non-state armed actors and foreign fighters.
The multi-fronted and lengthy civil war in Syria initially disintegrated the army of the Assad regime over the years and then rendered it functionally incompetent. For this reason, during this process, firstly Hezbollah, then other Iranian-backed militia elements and the field support of Iranian military elements, came to the aid of Damascus. Despite Tehran’s support in 2015, the loss of Idlib to the Syrian opposition as a result of military
The multi-fronted and lengthy civil war in Syria initially disintegrated the army of the Assad regime over the years and then rendered it functionally incompetent. For this reason, during this process, firstly
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