Pierre Khalaf
Senior Researcher at the Arab and International Center of Strategic Studies, Beirut.

The Syrian army controls the field
By Ghaleb Kandil
Western reports and press articles emphasize the rout of terrorist gangs in Syria and divisions that undermine their ranks. At the same time, the political Syrian opposition created by the West is bankrupt.
The latest developments in the field showed that the Syrian Arab Army (ASA) is advancing, and taking control of many troubled regions. It has liquidated rebel strongholds. According to reports in the Western press, terrorist groups (...)

Is Settlement Truly Impossible?
By Ghaleb Kandil
Many analyses, reports and positions in regard to the Syrian situation have been talking about the impossibility of settlement at the level of the ongoing conflict between the Syrian national state and the Al-Qaeda affiliated terrorist gangs led by the Al-Nusra Front and including a mixture of Muslim Brotherhood elements and multinational Takfiri groups, along with local gangs featuring a mixture of thieves and bandits.
Firstly, the (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
The Saudi role in the war on Syria
Firstly, on the political level, the government in Riyadh and the remaining Gulf governments, with the exception of Qatar, committed at the beginning of the Syrian events and for the next six months to stressing the necessity of maintaining Syrian stability. These reservations were actually caused by Saudi fears over the consequences of the actions witnessed in the Arab states since the end of 2011, and their repercussions on the Saudi (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
The Muslim Brotherhood and the Apple of Tyranny
It is known that the branch of the International Organization of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is the most active on the intellectual and political levels, but also the most popular and open. Since the Camp David Accord, it opposed a backward regime affiliated with the colonial West and enjoying security, political and economic cooperation agreements with the Zionist enemy. Hence, it represented an environment and structure (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
They are supporting Al-Qaeda in Syria
The Syrian national state and its armed forces are continuing to fiercely resist the global war targeting them. And while they are deploying all efforts and capabilities to provide the requirements of economic steadfastness and overcome the consequences of the terrorism and armed rebellion carried out in some provinces, they are waging a strategic campaign to annihilate the strongholds of the terrorists, tens of thousands of whom were (...)

During the speech of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah at the anniversary of Achoura,Hezbollah members are standing beside a replica of Fajr-5 missile.
By Ghaleb Kandil
Morsi’s coup and the exposure of the Muslim Brotherhood.
The incidents which broke out in Egypt following the presidential constitutional declaration did not come as a surprise. It was rather the expected result of the political course of the conflict over Egypt’s future, the nature of its regime and its nationalistic choice, but (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
The resistance system achieves victory despite the wounds.
“Israel is weaker than a spider web.” This is the conclusion with which the leader of the Lebanese resistance, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, presented the 2000 victory achieved by the Lebanese resistance when it ousted the Zionist occupation from most of the Lebanese territories following an ongoing struggle led by the popular and armed resistance throughout one quarter of a century, i.e. since the first invasion in (...)

Sheikh Ahmad Maaz Al-Khatib was named the president of the national coalition, the new organization charged of supervising Syrian opposition parties that are supported by the NATO and the GCC.
By Ghaleb Kandil
The colonial predicament in Syria.
In the context of the global war on Syria, the signs of the predicament affecting the colonial alliance led by the United States emerged in a way pointing towards a new strategic turn under the decisive headline of the exit plan following the (...)

Hilary Clinton doesn’t want any more the Syrian National Council, which was a structure composed by its French and Qatari sponsors. No room for a third option in Syria
By Ghaleb Kandil
The consecutive American recognitions of the increasing size of the Takfiri movements and Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups within the so-called armed opposition in Syria, settled the controversy launched at the beginning of the events in favor of the Syrian national state, and exposed the Western hypocrisy (...)

Walid Joumblatt
By Ghaleb Kandil
Moral Collapse and Mental Disorder
During the last few days, the Lebanese watched live on television some of the chapters of the resounding collapse of the March 14 forces in the streets of Beirut, Tripoli and Sidon, one which reached its dramatic peak with the scandalous attempt to storm the Serail. This constituted a failed and outrageous act, both politically and morally.
Firstly, the moral and cultural collapse of the March 14 forces has been (...)

European Tyranny and the Satellite Channels
The decision adopted by the European Union to discontinue the broadcasting of the Iranian channels on Hotbird and Eutelsat came to complement the campaign of pursuit targeting the channels that refused to succumb to the American will or to the Saudi and Qatari money in the region, or are playing an influential role in shaping the Arab and international public opinion and covering the events and developments while exposing the near and distant (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
The reality of the East stronger than the colonialists
The Iraq invasion and occupation war was among the most costly wars for the American empire, as its economic and financial losses were estimated at trillions of dollars, and resulted in the death, wounding and displacement of millions of Iraqis and the fall of thousands of American and British soldiers among other multinational troops mobilized by George W Bush’s administration on the land of this Arab country. Senior (...)

By Ghaleb Kandil
Erdogan fails to implicate NATO
The developments on the Turkish-Syrian border were the main object of interest of the concerned international and regional circles. And while Erdogan’s government firstly threatened with war, it recanted these threats later on and alleviated its tone, while continuously confirming it did not want war with Syria.
Firstly, the Turkish escalation – that was extremely confused in determining the source of the shell which was said to have exploded (...)

Syria rising and resisting despite the wounds.
The Syrian national state was able to topple the most dangerous link in the global war led by the United States. The field and political facts thus reveal that the Syrian state has regained control on all levels, which is imposing new equations and forcing the American and Israeli decision-making centers that are managing the war on Syria to redo their calculations.
Firstly, the Syrian Arab forces, while enjoying clear support and backing (...)
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