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Opinion: Assad will Use a Truce to Rearm

Assad would exit power and a hybrid administration consisting of the remains of the current government and the moderate opposition would be formed, and each party would continue to control the areas it currently oversees

Opinion: Israel Prefers Assad to ISIS

The new foreign-language service comes as part of Assad’s delusional contention that he and his regime are part of the international War on Terror

Opinion: Re-drawing the Map of the Levant

The regime is now trying to lift the blockade imposed by Syrian rebels and Islamist fighters on the neighborhoods and nearby villages still loyal to Assad in Aleppo, as well as seizing the military initiative in the rest of northwestern Syria

Regime Fears Coalition Mission Creep in Syria

Moscow, Tehran and Damascus hope that fighting ISIS will help restore the regime’s legitimacy and Iran also wants a place in the new regional system that is emerging

Obama Swallows a Strategy… and “Cracks” Appears at Core of Syrian Regime

The American president just wanted to relieve the pressure on regional and international allies, and pull the rug out from under his close rivals in the Democratic Party and his Republican rivals on the eve of the midterm elections and nearly two years before the presidential election

Why Our Youths Join IS

Secularists and civil state advocates don’t attract the youths any more

'Gas For Detainees' Rebel Deal in Homs

The regime yielded to the fighters’ demands to release all detainees in exchange for allowing the regime to repair the Arab Gas Pipeline