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This website is for all those interested in revisiting the military history of the Syrian War. We’ll take a deep look at specific battles, units, and profiles of combatants, as well as the occasional analytical piece on current events. Many of the forthcoming projects will utilize an original dataset of more than 40,000 regime combat deaths in order to provide a never-before-seen granular approach to battlefield dynamics and sectarianism in the regime’s security services. Other work will be derived from Facebook posts by combatants and author interviews with men from both sides of the war.

Smaller posts derived solely from a few Facebook posts will be free for all to read, while more granular research or posts utilizing primary source interviews will require a paid subscription to access.

About the Author

Gregory Waters is an expert on the Syrian regime’s security services and the Islamic State’s insurgency in Syria. He works as a Lead Researcher at the Syrian Archive assisting in accountability efforts, including providing evidence in support of the November 2023 French arrest warrant for Bashar Assad. He also works as an analyst at the Counter Extremism Project where he writes a monthly report on ISIS’s activities in Syria.

Waters previously worked as a consultant at the International Crisis Group where he conducted field research in northwest and northeast Syria and co-authored three reports on non-state armed group activity across the country. He continues to conduct independent field work in Syria on a variety of topics.

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