Rula Amin

As­sad’s gov­ern­ment wor­ries Alep­po will turn into an­oth­er Beng­hazi where rebels could co-or­di­nate with out­side sup­port­ers.

Bomb­ing that killed se­nior Syr­i­an se­cu­ri­ty of­fi­cials will breed more de­fec­tions and mis­trust at the high­est lev­els.

The move­ment of the late Pales­tin­ian leader Yass­er Arafat has lost ground to ri­vals.

The move­ment end­ed the war claim­ing vic­to­ry and push­ing for more pow­er in Lebanon.

Non-ID sta­tus refugees in Lebanon have lit­tle hope of leav­ing the camps.

Gov­ern­ment faces grow­ing crit­i­cism over slow re­con­struc­tion af­ter war.