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

Lebanon’s Cabinet Formation Soon as PM-Designate Seeks to Resolve LF Obstacle

by Caroline Akoum | Nov 17, 2016 | Middle East

Beirut-The obstacles facing the formation of Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri’s new government are being removed one step at a time after conditions placed by Progressive Socialist Party leader MP Walid Jumblat have been likely met. Jumblat and the head of the...

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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?

by Diana Moukalled | Jun 23, 2015 | Opinion

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)

Opinion: In Syria, the Alliance of Minorities is Counterproductive

by Eyad Abu Shakra | Nov 13, 2014 | Opinion

Sultan Al-Atrash, a leading figure in the Great Syrian Revolt against the French in 1925, remains a larger-than-life hero in Druze folk culture. These days, the Druze of Syria find themselves at a crossroads, and need to decide where their loyalties lie, as the...

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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

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...

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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)

Syria: Druze rebels deny “forced conversion” reports

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 28, 2013 | Middle East

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Syrian Druze rebel leaders have denied media reports that Islamist rebels are forcing Syrian Druze villages in Idlib to publicly embrace Islam. Earlier this week, The Times of Israel reported that “Al-Qaeda fighters in Syria forced residents of...