In 1963, the Arab world witnessed a significant Political shift when the Baath Party, through its military faction, staged a ...

Ward’s book Iran’s Ministry of Intelligence ... Shi’ite militias in Iraq, and Assad’s Alawite dictatorship in Syria – was not only designed to hedge in Israel but also to be the first ...

Its resident female artists would sinfully come and go at all hours of the night, so he had posted two armed jihadists to make them remove their books ... in attacks on the Alawite sect that ...

The Alawites are a minority sect which follows ... He is also the author of a number of non-fiction books. The Explainer The newly liberated Syria is in an incredibly precarious position, but ...

While the fall of the Assad dynasty represents an epochal turning point for Syrians, the future remains in all senses ...

Stephanie Davies’ book Laughology complements this perspective ... Hafez feared the narrative that an Alawite minority had brokered peace with an adversary. As for his engagements in Lebanon ...

This book’s narrative thread is evidently part-biographical ... The insurgents had massacred cadets from Hafez’s Alawite sect, and after an attempt on Hafez the regime had responded with a massacre of ...

The reality is that many of the elections last year were fake and that the world runneth over with dictators, authoritarians and their wannabes.

The savagery of the conflict has been grotesque and remained so up to the last moment, with 101 people in Gaza, including 27 children and 31 women, killed and 264 injured by Israeli strikes since the ...