Elizabeth Tsurkov

The World

Elizabeth Tsurkov is a Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute focusing on the Levant.   


Internally displaced people stand outside tents at a makeshift camp in Azaz, Syria, Feb. 19, 2020.

Analysis: The walls are closing in on Idlib. We cannot ignore the humanitarian crisis.

As the walls close in on Idlib, the last rebel-held pocket of Syria must not become a holding pen for Syrians too scared to live under Assad and too poor to afford to smuggle themselves into Turkey.