by Mounir al-Manawri | Jan 24, 2017 | World
Washington- CIA interest in the future of Syria began long time ago – the agency analysts expected stability to collapse once the late Syrian president Hafez al-Assad is gone, which turned out to be true. Several reports and analyses were made on Syria, according to...
by Amir Taheri | Feb 20, 2015 | Opinion
In the past few days I have been bombarded with messages drawing my attention to the emergence of a new chorus on Syria. The new song is sung by all sorts of people: British and American journalists, Israeli pundits and former officials, Russian and Iranian government...
by Adhwan Alahmari | Jun 3, 2014 | Interviews
Paris, Asharq Al-Awsat—Abdul Halim Khaddam originally met Hafez Al-Assad in the early 1950s when still a student activist, the beginning of a life-long association that would see Khaddam elevated to the posts of foreign minister and then vice-president of Syria. His...
by Amir Taheri | May 23, 2014 | Opinion
Has the faction led by President Bashar Al-Assad already won the three-year long civil war in Syria? The tendency in the Western commentariat is to answer the question with a qualified yes. A similar tune is whistled by some in Tehran and Moscow, Assad’s principal...
by Eyad Abu Shakra | Oct 11, 2013 | Opinion
Lebanon did not need a painful accident, such as the tragedy of the emigrants’ boat that capsized en route from Indonesia to Australia, to remind everybody that it is not just facing any old crisis—this is an existential one. The tragedies afflicting Lebanon are many,...
