The New Status Quo in Northeast Syria

How will the shifting balance of power in Northeast Syria affect counterterrorism efforts, humanitarian conditions, governance, and the political/military status of various local and international actors, including the United States? Featured in this video are Gonul Tol, founding director of the Middle East Institute’s Turkish Studies Program; Wladimir van Wilgenburg, coauthor of the 2019 book The Kurds of Northern Syria: Governance, Diversity and Conflicts (with Harriet Allsopp); and Dana Stroul, the Institute’s Kassen Fellow, and co-chair of Congress’s 2019 bipartisan Syria Study Group.