Ashley Jordan, Samy Akil, Karam Shaar *This policy summary is published in collaboration with the Middle East Institute The past year has seen a trend toward normalization with the Assad regime, accompanied with a push by some nations to force or coerce displaced...
Samy Akil, Karam Shaar *This policy brief has also been published by the Atlantic Council. On November 24, 2021, the US Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) announced its decision to expand authorizations for non-governmental organizations...
Nicholas Lyall, Karam Shaar The pace of military action in Syria has plateaued. With the assumption of a frozen conflict comes the attendant assumption that humanitarian conditions are also likely to be stable. This could not be further from the truth. While the level...
William Christou Al-Rukban refugee camp is all but forgotten to the world, sequestered in the dusty no-man’s land on the edge of the Syrian side of the Syrian-Jordanian border. The camp was initially formed in 2014 as Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) fled violence...
