Archive for the 'Sunnis' Category

Iran in Syria: “Cognitive Empathy” and Interests

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, May 13th, 2018

Eastern Ghouta x 20, by Aron Lund

Posted by Aron Lund on Friday, April 6th, 2018

“When the SDF was shocked”- Azaz Opposition Activist’s Analysis of Russian-Turkish Relations, Afrin, & Why US Will Dump Kurds for Turkey

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, January 30th, 2018

Beit Jann: Myths and Reality

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

Reconciliations: The Case of al-Sanamayn in North Deraa

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Thursday, April 27th, 2017

Revenge Being Meted Out on ISIS linked Sunni Tribes of Iraq – FrontLine “Iraq Uncovered”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 22nd, 2017

Why the U.S. Should Team Up with the Kurds & Not Turkey to Take Raqqa and Destroy the Islamic State

Posted by Joshua on Friday, March 17th, 2017

Liwa al-Mukhtar al-Thiqfi: Syrian IRGC Militia

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

Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Civil Society in Jabal al-Summaq

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, March 4th, 2017

A Response to Roy Gutman’s “Have the Syrian Kurds Committed War Crimes?”

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, February 11th, 2017

Quwat Dir’ Al-Qalamoun: Shifting Militia Links

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, January 17th, 2017

Kata’ib Humat al-Diyar: A Prominent Loyalist Militia in Suwayda’

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, November 26th, 2016

Liwa al-Imam Zain al-Abidain: Building a ‘Resistance’ in Eastern Syria

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Sunday, September 18th, 2016

Liwa Sayf al-Haq Assad Allah al-Ghalib: A Republican Guard Militia in Sayyida Zainab

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Friday, September 16th, 2016

The Virtues of Sham: The Place of Syria in the Muslim Sacral Imagination

Posted by Tam Hussein on Thursday, September 8th, 2016

The Druze in the Syrian Conflict – By Talal El Atrache

Posted by Joshua on Monday, September 5th, 2016

The Local Defence Forces: Regime Auxiliary Forces in Aleppo

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

The Factions of North Latakia

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

The Doha Congress: Negotiating a Return of the Iraqi Baath Party?

Posted by Aron Lund on Saturday, September 5th, 2015

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Responds to al-Julani’s al-Jazeera Interview

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, May 31st, 2015

The Administration of the Local Council in Azaz

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, March 21st, 2015

Book Review: ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Tuesday, February 3rd, 2015

Jabhat al-Nusra and the Druze of Idlib Province

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Saturday, January 24th, 2015

The Islamic State (IS) and Pledges of Allegiance: The Case of Jamaat Ansar al-Islam

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Friday, November 28th, 2014

The White Shroud: A Syrian Resistance Movement to the Islamic State

Posted by Aymenn Al-Tamimi on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014

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

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

Religious Groups and Scholars of Islam in the Syrian Revolution – by Issam Eido

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, June 1st, 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

“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

Islamist Groups Declare Opposition to National Coalition and US Strategy [updated]

Posted by Aron Lund on Tuesday, September 24th, 2013

Round Up: Lethal Aid, Human Interest Stories, Lebanon

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

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Interviewed by Syria Comment

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

Is Jabhat al-Nosra breaking apart?

Posted by Aron Lund on Wednesday, May 22nd, 2013

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

Posted by Joshua on Monday, May 13th, 2013

“Syrian Regime Loses Last Credible Ally among the Sunni Ulama,” by Thomas Pierret

Posted by Joshua on Friday, March 22nd, 2013

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

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 20th, 2012

Assad Responds to Clerics’ Demands

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 6th, 2011

The Niqab and Syria’s Private Girls Schools

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, July 20th, 2010

Muhammad Atta in Aleppo; Muslim Brothers; Oil

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, September 16th, 2009

Car Bomb in Damascus and Rise of Salafi Groups in Region

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, September 27th, 2008

News Round Up (28 June 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 29th, 2008

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 15th, 2008

March Toward Disaster

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, May 8th, 2008

“Al-Qaeda in Lebanon,” by Nir Rosen

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 16th, 2008

“U.S. Wary of Warming Syrian-Turkish Ties,” by Deborah Amos on NPR

Posted by Joshua on Friday, January 11th, 2008

Qaqaa Killed

Posted by Joshua on Friday, September 28th, 2007

Syria is Not Against the UN

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 28th, 2007

“UNIFIL and Eido Car Bombs the Same: Murr Blames al-Qaida” by T_desco

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, June 27th, 2007

Al-Qaida Arrests in Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 19th, 2007

Palestine and Lebanon: The US in Quicksand

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, June 17th, 2007

“Ash’ari Islam Predominates in Syria,” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, May 20th, 2007

“The Difference Between Wahhabis and Muslim Brothers,” by David Commins

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, May 8th, 2007

“The Middle East is abuzz with talk of ‘Shiitization,'” by Andrew Tabler

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, April 29th, 2007

Readers Responses to my Last Post

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 12th, 2007

Counting Lebanon’s Shiites as Slaves: Why the Lebanon Deal is Obstructed

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 10th, 2007

News Round Up (27 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

“Lebanese Sunnis Deeply Divided over Relations with Hizbullah” by Anonymous

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Three’s a Crowd

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

“Six Brutal Truths about Iraq,” By Gen. Odom

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, December 13th, 2006