Aron Lund

Former  Nonresident Fellow
Middle East Program
Aron Lund was a nonresident fellow in the Middle East Program and the author of several reports and books on the Syrian opposition movement.
Education

MA, Uppsala University

Languages
  • Arabic
  • English
  • Swedish
Resources

Latest Analysis

    • Diwan

    Politics of the Islamic Front, Part 6: Stagnation?

    • April 14, 2014

    While the ideology, politics, and public messaging of the rebel factions making up the Islamic Front have been streamlined effectively, initial hopes for closer organizational and battlefield unity have not yet borne fruit. Five months after its creation, the Islamic Front seemingly remains a rather wobbly umbrella movement.

    • Diwan

    Iran’s Unrealistic Endgame in Syria

    • April 11, 2014

    Until Iran and all the other governments currently fanning the flames of war in Syria have accepted that no peace plan can work without a critical mass of armed actors on both sides, Syria’s slow collapse into Somalia-style anarchy will continue.

    • Diwan

    One Year of Jihadi Civil War

    • April 09, 2014

    Since the creation of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant a year ago today, the rivalry between Iraqi and Syrian militant leaders has grown into a full-blown jihadi civil war.

    • Diwan

    The Mujahideen Army of Aleppo

    • April 08, 2014

    Made up of thousands of fighters, the Mujahideen Army dominates a chunk of the strategically important countryside west of Aleppo and exerts influence over at least some of the main supply routes from Turkey to Aleppo.

    • Diwan

    A New Free Syrian Army Leadership

    • April 04, 2014

    It is far too early to tell whether it will have any impact on the ground, but a new Syrian rebel leadership is finally taking form after the splits of this spring.

    • Diwan

    The Death of an Assad

    • April 01, 2014

    As one of many cousins of Bashar al-Assad, Hilal al-Assad was perhaps on the outskirts of absolute power, but his death will still have come as a chilling reminder to the elite in Damascus of how precarious their position really is.

    • Diwan

    The Failure to Stop Starvation Tactics in Syria

    • March 31, 2014

    There have been attempts to directly address the Syrian humanitarian situation without getting caught up in the divisive politics over Assad’s future. But these attempts have so far made little progress because the conduct of the war is nearly indistinguishable from its politics.

    • Diwan

    The Free Syrian Armies: Failed Reconciliation

    • March 26, 2014

    The institutional split within the Syrian opposition's Free Syrian Army may reflect foreign countries' disputes, but it also reflects the opposition's organizational chaos and personal rivalries.

    • Diwan

    The Free Syrian Armies: Institutional Split

    • March 25, 2014

    To understand the split in the Free Syrian Army that arose last month, one needs to understand the divisive history of the FSA's institutions.

    • Diwan

    Does the “Southern Front” Exist?

    • March 21, 2014

    The remarkably nonsectarian and democratic statement signed by rebel factions in southern Syria in February was likely only a ploy by rebel commanders to get more foreign support by declaring their opposition to extremism.

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