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Hizbollah-Syrian Intelligence Affairs: A Marriage of Convenience
(2011)Since the 1980s, Hizbollah has emerged as the guardian of Lebanon's Shi'a and a stalking horse for Iran. Syria, though allied with Tehran, seeks to manage Hizbollah's freedom of action in Lebanon and is eyed cautiously in ... -
Urban and rural militia organizations in Syria's less governed spaces
(The Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, 2015-09-21)This paper contends decline of Bashar al-Assad’s governing authority and the concomitant accretion of increasingly complex militia organizations suggests a future of petty militia fiefdoms affecting an Islamic veneer ruling ...