by Stephen Starr | Jun 25, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
Since the government forces were forced from much of north and eastern Syria, Islamic courts have emerged to take up the administrative baton of governing and regulating those towns and communities. But a look at how the Ba’athist state governed the country for...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 21, 2013 | Middle East
Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat—Damascus was rocked on Thursday by a car bomb that exploded in the heart of the city, close to the headquarters of Syria’s ruling Baathist Party. State media say that the blast killed over 50 people and wounded more then 200 more, and press...
by Amir Taheri | Feb 18, 2013 | Opinion
Has the time come for military intervention in Syria? Despite efforts in many capitals to dodge the question, it is moving to the center of the debate over the Syrian tragedy. British Foreign Secretary William Hague says “no option” has been ruled out, code for...
by Huda Al Husseini | Feb 17, 2013 | Opinion
With Syria’s accelerating and inevitable collapse, Iran’s growing role becomes more and more prominent as it tries to win on all the fronts and draw attention away from its internal problems. Conflicts within Iran are growing as the date of the...
by Mshari Al-Zaydi | Feb 16, 2013 | Opinion
The news that we hear-both sincere and false-regarding the presence of jihadists among the Syrian revolutionaries rising up against the Bashar al-Assad regime is deliberate and characterized by an intent to distort reality. Such news most often features the...
