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New Rebel commander missed in north Syria

  Reports about missing a rebel commander affiliated to 'Jund Allah', God's Soldiers rally in Idlib countryside. Anas al-Zir, leader of 'Yousef al-Zmeh' brigade, was missed in Sarmin city after his attendenace for military meeting with Jund Allah commanders, source...

Time: drugs fund Syria's brutal war

  A spike in the trafficking of the illegal drug Captagon, popular in the Middle East, is connected to Syria's brutal civil war   Fifteen days into his job as  Lebanon ’s top drug-enforcement official, Colonel Ghassan Chams Eddine got a tip-off that something...

The Shiite Turn in Syria by Khalid Sindawi

Syria has never had a large Shiite population, but in recent years there has been an increase in conversions to Shiism within Syria’s Sunni, Ismaili, and Alawite populations. The geographical proximity of Iran to Syria has always led to a certain degree of Iranian influence there,...