Tag: Bashar Assad

The Military Balance 2013 IISS assess the state of the Syrian Army, decimated through almost two years of civil war in Syria. The report claims the regime could only be certain of the loyalty of the mainly Alawite Special Forces, the Republican Guard, and the elite 3rd and 4th Divisions – perhaps 50,000 troops in total.

Some questions are plaguing Middle East analysts over the sudden shift in Israeli-Syrian relations. Ehud Olmert's attitude is quite obvious - he wishes to...

Last November Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran. The Iranian move was a clear display of president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's increasingly...