Have Hezbollah and Iran clashed with the Syrian regime over their support for Gaza? ( Al Jazeera ) - There   has been some rather bizarre speculation of a rift between Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on the one hand, and Iran and Hezbollah on the other. The rumours have been...

I WILL never know when or why Hakim Anza, a Syrian rebel commander whom I had once trusted, decided to betray me. I would hazard a guess that three years of savage war, combined with reports — rampant in every bazaar of northern Syria — of huge sums paid for...

The rise of jihadists in Iraq has set the West on edge, but Damascus sees it is an opportunity to legitimise its battle against rebels and promote it as a war on "terror". President Bashar al-Assad's regime has repeatedly denied the existence of a revolt seeking political...

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