Anthony Avice Du Buisson

The writer is an Australian-based free-lance writer who writes on politics, foreign policy and the Middle East. He has written for online syndications such as The Region and Areo Magazine.

 Qatar’s Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani meets with Syria’s de facto leader Ahmed al-Sharaa, also known as Abu Mohammed al-Julani, in Damascus, last week. For Syria’s new caretaker government, the risks are significant, says the writer.

From Ba’athist rule to uncertainty: Syria’s fragile future – opinion

 US SECRETARY of State Antony Blinken meets with Yazidi activists at the State Department in Washington July 2024.

In the shadow of genocide: Remembering 10 years of Yazidi struggle

 WOMEN, THEIR faces painted with the colors of Iran’s flag, take part in a protest to show solidarity with the Iranian people, in Brussels, earlier this year.

Overthrowing the Ayatollah regime: The case for revolution in Iran - opinion


Should Israel get more involved in Ukraine? - opinion

Israel may insist on neutrality for geopolitical reasons but whether it likes to admit it or not, sooner or later the state will need to take a firm stance.

 ALIYAH AND Integration Minister Pnina Tamano-Shata arrives at Ben-Gurion Airport to welcome nine Holocaust survivors rescued from the war in Ukraine. Their arrival in Israel came on the eve of Holocaust Remembrance Day, in April.

The case for a Syrian democratic republic - comment

President Bashar Assad remains ruler of a shattered nation. Assad’s party – the Arab Socialist Ba’ath Party (ASBP) – continues to assert dominance over 60% of the country.

SYRIAN PRESIDENT Bashar Assad addresses members of his country’s parliament in Damascus in August.

The ‘fire’ in Lebanon started before the Beirut Port explosion – opinion

The political ruling elite in Lebanon is absent in providing leadership. This absence is evident in the ceding of the government’s leadership to that of foreign leaders.

DEMONSTRATORS TAKE part in protests that followed widespread frustration in Lebanon, capped by a deadly blast in Beirut Port last Tuesday.

The message is clear: Turkey is invading Kurdistan and killing Kurds

There will be no peace for victims until Turkey is held accountable for its criminal actions now and in the past

THE BORDER between the Kurdistan Region of Iraq and Iran.

The state of US engagement in a post-ISIS Iraq

The Iranian government utilizes political parties such as the Fatah Alliance and exploits Shia sentiment in the south to exert influence over the Iraqi government.

US Army soldiers keep watch on the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq January 1, 2020

The future of Idlib

The question that remains to be answered now is: Will Idlib hold?

Syrian army soldiers gesture in southern Idlib province, Syria in this handout released by SANA on March 5, 2020.

A symphony of violence in northeast Syria

“The USA has betrayed us. The USA has abandoned us!”

U.S. President Donald Trump delivers a statement on the conflict in Syria with Vice President Mike Pence at his side in the Diplomatic Room of the White House in Washington, U.S., October 23, 2019

An endless nightmare

There are thousands of Yazidis today who remain haunted by memories of themselves or loved ones being kidnapped, raped and abused.

A YAZIDI man pulls rubble from his house in Sinjar that ISIS terrorists destroyed in February.

Martyrs never die

“Do not stand at my grave and cry; While Rojava lives, I did not die.”

Fighters of Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) put an SDF flag in al-Omar oil field in Deir Al Zor, Syria March 23, 2019

Take them back

The collapse of the ISIS territorial proto-state in Syria is near

Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) celebrate the first anniversary of Raqqa province liberation from ISIS, in Raqqa, Syria Ocotber 27, 2018