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# Syria: no military victory, no political solution?
- URL: https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/syria-no-military-victory-no-political-solution/
- Published: 2013-07-02T10:07:36.000Z
- Updated: 2019-02-14T21:56:37.000Z
- Description: Video: The Friends of Syria have played what may be their 'last card' - what difference will it make on the ground? Yezid Sayigh talks to Jo Tyabji about spinning out military escalation, and the slim chance of creating commitments for de-escalation.
- Author: Yezid Sayigh
- Tags: Conflict & security, #Migrated, Middle East & North Africa, Syria's peace: what, how, when?, Reconciliation and Peacebuilding, Security in Middle East and North Africa, Syria's spiral of war, Syria, conflict, #en, #Import 2026-04-09 16:28

This interview was recorded on Friday 28th June 2013.

Yezid Sayigh is a senior associate at the [Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut](http://carnegie-mec.org/?lang=en&ref=opendemocracy.net#/slide%5F2608%5Flebanese-army-s-defeat-of-salafists-buys-only-short-respite), where his work focuses on the Syrian crisis, the political role of Arab armies, security sector transformation in Arab transitions, the reinvention of authoritarianism, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and peace process.