by Said Abdul Razzak | Oct 19, 2016 | Middle East
Ankara- Turkish authorities stepped up security measures to aid in thwarting any plot targeting crowded areas and gatherings, after the threat of terror attacks increased. Gaziantep local authorities revealed that great ISIS terror activity has been detected. The...
by FatehArrahman Youssef and Caroline Akoum | May 22, 2016 | Middle East
Riyadh- Asaad al-Zoubi, head of the Syrian opposition delegation of High Negotiations Committee (HNC) in Geneva, revealed to Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper the existence of a plot aimed at establishing an independent Alawite state which chunked out from Syrian grounds and...
by Caroline Akoum | Mar 15, 2015 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Muhammad Tawfiq Al-Assad, cousin of President Bashar Al-Assad and believed to be one of the founders of the Syrian regime’s infamous Shabiha militias, has been assassinated in the village of Qerdaha, the country’s main Alawite stronghold and...
by Michel Kilo | Apr 2, 2014 | Opinion
The battle for the coast is different to the other battles raging on our soil in Syria. In some areas, the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and other rebel factions are fighting a regular army dominated by a specific sectarian and religious group. This does not mean the FSA is...
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Mar 30, 2014 | Features
Yayladağı, Turkish–Syrian border, Asharq Al-Awsat—It wasn’t so much what Nabil said that was disturbing, but his appearance. Twenty-one years old, smiling and baby faced, he hardly looked like a man who could kill so easily and without remorse. But just a few days...
