The Kuwaiti role involved not only creating military operation rooms and directing the course of certain battles, but also giving direct orders to commit massacres and then boasting about them
Jarba says the battle against the regime is now one against Iran, Hezbollah and Iraqi militias
Activists warned people not to leave homes, fearing revenge attacks from Shabbiha forces
Israel continues to ban Syrian citizens in the Golan from visiting their families in Syria via the Quneitra crossing
The Sharia court was established in a meeting spearheaded by five elders and lawyers and attended by leaders of military groups and the city’s notables after regime forces withdrew
Syria denounces move as “blatant aggression”
Letters to the U.N. say Saudi counter-terror legislation lacks credibility
Nikolaos van Dam is the author of The Struggle for Political Power in Syria and former ambassador of the Netherlands to various Middle Eastern countries
Mohammad Kassem writes for The Syrian Observer on a successful local council experience in Northern syria
ISIS took advantage of the withdrawal of the Ahrar al Sham and Jabhat Al Nusra groups at the end of September 2012 and turned the province’s entire life
Skaif was killed in regime prisons after several months in detention
The detained soldiers begged to be treated like Christians and others exchanged
Both sides accuse the other of assisting terrorist groups
Some researchers connect Blackwater to the killing of demonstrators in different Arab countries
Labwani said the opposition may give up the Golan Heights to topple the regime
With unemployment skyrocketing, many men are taking up weapons with regime and opposition militias to earn a living
Syrian Coalition President Ahmad Jarba writes for Asharq al-Awsat on the third anniversary of the Syrian revolution
The bill aims at regulating the election of the president, members of the parliament and members of the local administrative councils
The Syrian revolution enters its fourth year with questions on the country’s future still pending
The campaign showed the potential for other creative alternatives to solve the crisis
