Last year, I had an appointment with a cardiologist from the Alawite sect, which I got after waiting for three months, which is a great time for those who know that appointments for specialist doctors in France take at least six months and maybe more. What made the appointment even more...

The Syrian asks "Should I be sad about the destruction of my country's air, sea and land military bases by Israel?" A bitter question, especially since these bases were used only to kill the Syrian people. Airports from which Syrian and Russian warplanes took off, flew and bombed, chemical...

By Fouad Abdel Aziz Since the opposition factions began last week to advance on Aleppo province and later take control of it, the stance of many Alawite figures opposed to the Assad regime was striking, as they began to declare their fear of this attack, if not to say their...

With Israel poised to attack Iran, having already blindsided friends and foes alike with its blitz against Lebanon’s Hezbollah movement, all the talk is of an inexorable slide towards a new, pan-Middle Eastern war. Yet brakes remain to halt a regional fall into a wider conflagration...