For analysts familiar with the politics of Syria, the country’s descent into chaos amounts to an all-too-predictable pattern. It also parallels what  Rami Makhlouf , a major regime figure and first cousin of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, bluntly announced in an interview with...

Zaman Alwasl: Prominent figure in the 14th-March movement, the fierce opponent to Hezbollah, said, How we can accept who kills Syrians in the new government. Atef Maghdalani, assured to 'Lebanon Debate' website that Hezbollah's immersion in the Syrian swamp will not be like Vietnam...

  Zaman Alwasl-Reuters: Shiite villages and neighborhoods in Lebanon are witnessing an incredible increasing in the funerals of Hezbollah fighters who been killed in syria, especially in Qusair. The photo shows supporters of Hezbollah and relatives of Hasan Faisal Sheker , an...

The golden cupola of the Sayyida Zainab mosque glints, magnificent, against the clear sky. In the courtyard, children play amid shoes shed by their parents before they entered to pray. Only the crack of gunfire, the hissing of bullets overhead and mortar fire close by disturbs the tranquil...