Sami Moubayed

Sami Moubayed is a Syrian historian and author of Under the Black Flag (IB Tauris, 2015). 

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A US soldier watches as Syrian Democratic Forces remove military fortifications during the implementation of the security mechanism along the Turkey-Syria border in north-eastern Syria, August 22. (AP)
Russia-Turkey-Iran plan for Syria shuns Kurds, US
September 28, 2019
A win for Damascus? Syria’s President Bashar Assad (L) chairs the central committee of the ruling Baath party in Damascus, last October 7. (AFP)
US still absent as Syrian Constitutional Committee sees light
September 21, 2019
No solution in sight. A Turkish military vehicle is driven near the town of Maer Hatat in northern Syria’s Idlib province, August 20. (AFP)
Syrian opposition hopes dashed as Idlib turns into giant chessboard
September 14, 2019
People inspect a stall at the Damascus International Trade Fair, August 30. (AFP)
Washington’s threats fall on deaf ears in Syria
September 07, 2019
Bad blood. Lebanese soldiers patrol next to a Hezbollah flag in the southern village of Aitaroun, on the border with Israel, August 27. (AP)
Israeli drone attacks threaten to disrupt border talks with Lebanon
August 31, 2019
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) speaks next to Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting in Moscow, April 8. (AFP)
Turkish intervention in Idlib may never come
August 24, 2019
Rival Druze leaders of Lebanon Walid Jumblatt (R) and Talal Arslan in Beirut. (NNA Lebanon)
Meeting at Baabda Palace ends Druze tensions
August 17, 2019
A 2014 file picture shows ISIS fighters waving flags during a military parade along the streets of Syria’s northern Raqqa province. (Reuters)
ISIS names heir to Baghdadi from Saddam’s officer corps
August 17, 2019
Simmering tensions. Lebanese Druze sheikhs attend the funeral of one of two aides of Refugee Affairs Minister Saleh Gharib, who were killed in an incident that Gharib called an assassination attempt, in Ramlieh, Lebanon, July 5. (Reuters)
Druze tensions threaten Lebanese government’s stability
July 27, 2019
Vulnerable lives. A Syrian girl at al-Hol camp for the internally displaced people in Hasakah governorate in north-eastern Syria, on July 23. (AFP)
Dire conditions in al-Hol and Rukban camps fuel fears of ISIS resurgence
July 27, 2019
A Syrian Army soldier stands next to a Syrian flag in Umm al-Mayazen in the countryside of Daraa. (Reuters)
Violence creeps back into major Syrian cities
July 20, 2019
Tightening noose. Lebanese MP for Hezbollah Amin Sherri gestures during a meeting for the party’s bloc in Beirut’s southern suburb of Haret Hreik, July 11. (AFP)
US sanctions on Hezbollah to carry long-term impact in Lebanon, Middle East
July 13, 2019
Lebanese State Minister for Refugee Affairs Saleh Gharib attends a news conference in Khaldeh near Beirut, July 1. (Reuters)
Mount Lebanon shoot-out triggers fears of intra-Druze strife
July 06, 2019
A boy holds the Free Syrian Army flag during a protest calling for an end to the strikes and for Ankara to open the frontier at the Atmeh crossing on the Syrian-Turkish border, in Idlib governorate, Syria, May 31. (Reuters)
Idlib operation risks morphing into ‘war of attrition’
June 29, 2019
‘Brotherhood blood’. A 2007 file picture shows Syrian President Bashar Assad (R) meeting with Hamas political leader Khaled Meshaal in Damascus.(AP)
Syria says no to restoring ties with Hamas
June 22, 2019
Syrian President Bashar Assad (C) greets Muslim clerics as he arrived to attend Eid al-Fitr prayers in Damascus, June 5. (AFP)
Syria regime using influential Muslim clerics to fight extremism
June 15, 2019
Intricate context. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem speaks during a news conference in Damascus. (AP)
Syria’s position on Iran-US standoff signals change of course
May 25, 2019
James Jeffrey, the US special representative for Syria, attends a session during the third day of the 55th Munich Security Conference, last February. (dpa)
US policy on Assad raises red flags for Syrian opposition
May 18, 2019
Lebanon's Christian Maronite Patriarch Cardinal Mar Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir reviews an honour guard upon arriving at the presidential palace in Baabda, east of Beirut, June 24, 2008. (Reuters)
Patriarch Nasrallah Sfeir, formidable figure in Lebanese modern history, dies
May 13, 2019
New escalation. Syrians, fleeing possible air strikes, drive along the main Damascus-Aleppo highway near the town of Saraqib in Syria’s jihadist-held Idlib province, May 9. (AFP)
Russian-Syrian forces pound Idlib, Turkey shifts attention to Kurdish positions
May 11, 2019