BY AFSIN YURDAKUL | APRIL 28, 2013 FOREIGN POLICY SOMEWHERE IN NORTHERN SYRIA — On a chilly morning in late March, I met the Free Syrian Army (FSA) Chief of […]
Syria has presented the UN Security Council a list of 143 foreign citizens killed in Syria fighting government troops. Damascus hopes the move will force the UN to declare the […]
BEIRUT: A group of extremist Islamist factions in Syria has rejected the country’s new opposition coalition, saying in a video statement they have formed an “Islamic state” in the embattled city of Aleppo to underline that they want nothing to do with the Western-backed bloc. The video appears to be […]
By Raffaello Pantucci, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Raffaello Pantucci is an associate fellow at the International Center for the Study of Radicalisation at King’s College and the author of the forthcoming “We Love Death As You Love Life: Britain’s Suburban Mujahedeen” (Hurst). A growing number of young Europeans drawn […]
By Ben Hubbard and Zeina Karam, Saturday, October 13, 5:40 PM Washington Post BEIRUT — Fighters from a shadowy militant group with suspected links to al-Qaeda joined Syrian rebels in […]
October 10, 2012 12:43 AM By David Ignatius The Daily Star Leading the fight in Sakhour on the eastern side of the embattled city of Aleppo is the Tawafuk Battalion […]
ALEPPO – A fighter returns to a Free Syrian Army safe house after a shift on the Aleppo frontline, cranks up the volume of the television, lights a cigarette and looks at himself in a broken mirror. “Anyone got hair gel? I look a mess.” Meet Abu Zeid Al Tunsi, […]
The civil conflict in Syria has brought Islamists from all over the world to the Arab country to help their brothers topple the “apostate regime”. But will the foreign allies […]
Express Tribune: Pak Army and Pak nationalism: by Khlaid Ahmad Pakistani nationalism, like all nationalisms, is based on what Ibn Khaldun called asabiya or the ‘group feeling’ that people living inside a state must […]