French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in Tunisia Wednesday on a visit intended to "support the democratic transition" of a country still battered by economic stagnation and social unrest seven years after its revolution. His visit comes after several hundred people were...
By Ethar Abdulhaq (Zaman Al Wasl)- Hafez al-Assad has spread a propaganda which has dominated the Syrian arena for decades of the oppression of the Alawites and their excessive marginalization, before Hafez came to power and leadership, and built for them a "glory and a great...
(Zaman Al Wasl)- Both Makhlouf and the Shalish families complemented the Assad's family-sectarian power triangle established by Hafez al-Assad in the 1970s. He appointed himself as their leader and then inherited it to Bashar, hiring members of these families in sensitive positions which...