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President Michel Aoun meets with PM-designate Saad Hariri at Baabda Palace. NNA


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Druze clerics from the Golan Heights watch the fighting near the Druze village of Hadar on the Syrian side of the border with Israel, 20 June 2015, during a fight with Syrian Nusra Front (JAN) fighters following the killing of some twenty Druze by Islamic opposition groups in Syria’s north. EPA/ATEF SAFADI


Opinion: Fear for the Druze—or for Assad?

Opinion: Fear for the Druze—or for Assad?

Lebanese politician Wiam Wahab’s recent warning regarding the possibility of the Druze seeking refuge in Israel to escape the takfirist threat did not provoke the ire of the anti-Israel resistance ranks, whether on the media or the political level. Wahab, who has...
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Members of the Druze community hold a poster depicting Syria’s President Bashar A-Assad during a rally in the Druze village of Majdal Shams on the Golan Heights, Syria, in this February 14, 2012 file photo. (Reuters//Baz Ratner)


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The coastal area near the Armenian Christian town of Kasab is seen March 28, 2014. After months of setbacks in central Syria, Islamist rebels launched an offensive last Friday into the Latakia region, taking the border crossing and the Armenian Christian village of Kasab. The border crossing at Kasab they seized had been the last […]


Opinion: The Battle for the Coast

Opinion: The Battle for the Coast

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...
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A Free Syrian Army fighter aims his weapon as he takes position in Aleppo’s Karm al-Jabal district on December 4, 2013. (Reuters/Saad AboBrahim)