Archive for the 'Alawites' Category

Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi: Syrian IRGC Militia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Wednesday, March 8th, 2017

Saraya al-Areen: An Alawite Militia in Latakia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, December 10th, 2016

Kata’ib al-Jabalawi: A Pro-Assad Militia from Homs

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, July 19th, 2016

“The Asad Petition of 1936: Bashar’s Grandfather Was Pro-Unionist,” By Stefan Winter

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 14th, 2016

The Local Defence Forces: Regime Auxiliary Forces in Aleppo

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Monday, May 23rd, 2016

The Leopards of Homs: A Pro-Assad Militia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, May 15th, 2016

Harakat al-Hawiya al-Arabiya al-Druziya: Defending Druze Identity in Suwayda’

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, March 6th, 2016

Liwa Usud al-Hussein: A New Pro-Assad Militia in Latakia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Friday, February 19th, 2016

The Factions of North Latakia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Thursday, December 10th, 2015

Overview of some pro-Assad Militias

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

Quwat al-Ridha: Syrian Hezbollah

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Friday, July 31st, 2015

The Coastal Shield Brigade: A New Pro-Assad Militia

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Thursday, July 23rd, 2015

Who was Mohammad Nasif Kheirbek?” by Mohammad D.

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 30th, 2015

The Massacre of Druze Villagers in Qalb Lawza, Idlib Province

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Monday, June 15th, 2015

Round-Up: Palmyra, Contingency Planning for Regime Losses, UN Response to Enslavement Crisis

Posted by Matthew Barber on Saturday, May 23rd, 2015

The Alawi Community and the Syria Crisis – by Fabriche Balanche

Posted by Matthew Barber on Tuesday, May 19th, 2015

The Killing of Muhammad al-Assad, a.k.a. “Shaykh al-Jabal”

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 14th, 2015

A Visit to the Tomb of Hafez al-Asad

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Joshua Landis on ISIS, Syria & the “Great Sorting Out” in the Middle East – Interview with Danny Postel

Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 17th, 2014

The National Ideological Resistance in Syria: A ‘Syrian Hezbollah’ Brand

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, October 11th, 2014

Minority Dynamics in Syria

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, July 29th, 2014

“Who Was Hilal al-Assad?” By Mohammad D.

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 6th, 2014

Middle-East’s Sectarian Balance Shifts as Syrian Uprising Enters Fourth Year — by Jawad Anwar Qureshi

Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, March 20th, 2014

“Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of strength,” by Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

“Observations of a Homsi living in Tartous,” by Aboud Dandachi

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, January 21st, 2014

The Work of Fabrice Balanche on Alawites and Syrian Communitarianism reviewed by Nikolaos van Dam

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 30th, 2013

Aymenn al-Tamimi Speaks to Ali Kayali and Profiles “The Syrian Resistance,” a Pro-Assad Militia Force

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, September 22nd, 2013

Gangs of Latakia: The Militiafication of the Assad Regime

Posted by Aron Lund on Tuesday, July 23rd, 2013

Round Up: Lethal Aid, Human Interest Stories, Lebanon

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, June 23rd, 2013

Turkey Engulfed in Protests, Syria Conflict Worries Turkish Alevis, Syrian Turkomen Support Opposition

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, June 2nd, 2013

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Interviewed by Syria Comment

Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, May 30th, 2013

Do the Massacres in Bayda and Banyas Portend Ethnic Cleansing to Create an Alawite State?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, May 13th, 2013

Drones, A New Alawite Opposition, Obama in Israel

Posted by Matthew Barber on Saturday, March 23rd, 2013

“The Uprising and the New Syria: Islamists Rise in Raqqa while Damascene Christians Dodge Fire” By Matthew Barber

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, March 10th, 2013

“Is an Alawite State in Syria’s Future?,”Cecily Hilleary interviews Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 20th, 2012

“The Formation of Alawite Militias in the Kassab region,” by Mohammad D.

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 6th, 2012

“The Original Shabiha,” by Mohammad D.

Posted by Joshua on Friday, August 17th, 2012

Homs: The Capital of Syrian Uprising

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, October 18th, 2011

Minorities

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, August 16th, 2011

Syria: An Uprising, Not a Revolution, By Yazan Badran

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, July 5th, 2011

“The Alawi Dilemma – Revisited,” By Khudr

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011

“What do Sunnis intend for Alawis following regime change?” by Khudr

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, June 18th, 2011

Did Four Alawi Clans Dissociate themselves from the Assads, as the Opposition Claims? Not likely.

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 1st, 2011

News Round Up (12 Sept. 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, September 12th, 2008

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 15th, 2008

“The Jews of Syria,” By Robert Tuttle

Posted by Alex on Monday, April 7th, 2008

Saudi king prays with Rif’at al-Asad in Mecca

Posted by Alex on Friday, October 12th, 2007

Latakia in 1980-81: Samuel Pickering’s Fulbright Year

Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 5th, 2007

“Alawi Identity in Syria,” M.A. Thesis by Torstein Worren

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Syria and Iraq

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 29th, 2007

“Shi’ites and Shi’ism in Medieval Syria,” by Stephennie Mulder

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

Blanford’s Hariri Book. Syria Talks Urged by Britain

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, November 11th, 2006

Bayanouni Improves on Alawi Question

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, September 24th, 2006