While most of the high-profile Gulf-based financiers sending money to Syrian rebel groups emerged in late 2011-mid 2012, there are late entrants still getting in the game. One of these sheikhs, referenced in a recent article by Ben Hubbard...
Many sources have expressed their worries about safety of Abdul Jabbar al-Oqaidi, the former head of the Aleppo military council, and the threat he might be surrounded . A well-informed sources reported that Oqaidi is under close guarding and monitoring as Syrians...
Burak Karan had a bright future as a professional soccer player in Germany and even played for the national team's youth side. But he ended his career at 20 and joined radical Islamists. He was killed in Syria in October. Burak Karan's first life ended on March...
A s Druze warlord Walid Jumblatt served a sumptuous dinner to a gathering of Lebanese notables here, the talk around the table was about who would fill the power vacuum in the region if America reaches a nuclear deal with Iran — and accelerates...
