Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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A Lebanese Sunni gunman holds a rifle in Al-Koubbeh, in Tripoli May 23, 2013. (REUTERS/Omar Ibrahim)

Opinion: Syria’s spreading sectarian war

by Osman Mirghani | May 29, 2013 | Opinion

For a long time, we refused to acknowledge that what is happening in Syria has become a civil war. This is something that persisted even after the war expanded to include all parties in the country and draw various other elements into the conflict, which made it...

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Syrians step on a picture of Bashar al-Assad and his father Hafez al-Assad during a protest marking two years since the start of the uprising, in front of the Syrian embassy in Amman. (R)

High-Ranking Syrian Military Officer Defects

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Mar 17, 2013 | Middle East

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—A high-ranking Syrian military officer and approximately 20 soldiers defected from the embattled Syrian army in two separate incidents on Saturday. Appearing in a YouTube Video yesterday, Brigadier General Mohammed Khalouf was shown dressed in a...

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Arab Syria an Iranian Province

by Tariq Al-Hashemi | Feb 27, 2013 | Opinion

The statement issued by Iranian scholar Mehdi Taeb, a prominent political figure in charge of overseeing the soft war that has been launched by Iran, did not contain anything new, nor did its issuance come out of the blue. However this statement could be viewed as the...

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A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution By Samar Yazbek

Book Review: A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution

by Grace Perriman | Jan 12, 2013 | Book Reviews

A Woman in the Crossfire: Diaries of the Syrian Revolution By Samar Yazbek Published by Haus Publishing, July 2012. London, The Majalla – In a steamy University of Damascus classroom, Arabic language students attempt to translate Samar Yazbek’s novel Cinnamon....