ISF-CY Director Takes Part in a Two-Day Closed Door Consultation in Brussels, September 2025

Dr Yiorghos Leventis, Founder & Director of the International Security Forum, Cyprus participated upon invitation in the 14th Consultative Meeting of the EU Non-Proliferation & Disarmament Consortium held in Brussels on Tuesday, the 16th and on Friday, the 19th of September 2025. The two-day closed door discussion, attended by around sixty experts from…

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Now What About Idlib?

If no solution is found, the troubled Syrian province could turn into an Al-Qaeda Caliphate Idlib is bleeding. Radical Islamists, who lost the war in Syria, are trying to retain power in the country’s north-western province at the cost of civilian lives. This is the final obstacle to attaining peace…

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Terrorists in Idlib Should not Hope on the Help of Foreign Sponsors

There are about 10,000 terrorists linked with al-Qaeda on the territory of the Syrian province of Idlib. This statement was unexpectedly widely quoted in the Western media, contrary to the established tradition of representing members of illegal armed groups as “rebels” and “fighters for freedom”. Perhaps the reason for the…

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Διάλεξη στην Αθήνα: Αλεξανδρέττα 1939, Κύπρος 1974, Συρία 2018: Πάγιες Επιδιώξεις της Τουρκίας

Κατόπιν πρόσκλησης του Ανοικτού Πανεπιστημίου Κύπρου και του Ελληνικού Πολιτιστικού Ομίλου Κυπρίων Ελλάδος, ο Διευθυντής του Ιδρύματος μας, Δρ Γιώργος Λεβέντης θα δώσει διάλεξη στην Αθήνα, την Τετάρτη 18 Απριλίου 2018, στις 6:30 μμ, με θέμα: Αλεξανδρέττα 1939, Κύπρος 1974, Συρία 2018: Πάγιες Πρακτικές και Επιδιώξεις της Τουρκικής Εξωτερικής Πολιτικής…

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Turkey Grand Strategy 1974: Invasion of Cyprus, 1939: Annexation of Alexandretta, 2018: Invasion of Syria

The day before yesterday, the PYG Kurdish freedom fighters in the Afrin region succeeded in destroying an invading Turkish tank. The PYG stiff resistance to the invading Turkish forces and their lackeys – the Free Syrian Army – is becoming more and more remarkable. This Kurdish People’s Protection Units’ success…

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Collapse of Geneva Diplomacy: Syrian Conflict Proves Intractable for the West

Last week, the eighth round of negotiations on the settlement of the Syrian conflict took place in Geneva. As expected by many international observers, the participants of the consultations could not reach a compromise. Staffan De Mistura, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General did not even manage to organize…

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Any News of the Investigation on the Latest Chemical Attack in Syria?

Syrian Government’s more than 90 letters(!) to the Security Council, the Joint Investigative Mechanism and other bodies, containing documented evidence that ISIS possessed toxic chemicals obtained from Turkey remain unanswered to this day.   The latest chemical attack in Khan Shayk Hun, in Syria’s Idlib Governorate reportedly caused the deaths of…

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