The Virtues of Sham: The Place of Syria in the Muslim Sacral Imagination

The Iran-Syria Alliance: Sectarianism or Realpolitik? — by Mohammad Ataie

The Future of ISIS and the Sectarian Response: ISIS has Picked a Fight it Cannot Win

Middle-East’s Sectarian Balance Shifts as Syrian Uprising Enters Fourth Year — by Jawad Anwar Qureshi

Problems for Syrians in Egypt; News from Kurdish North; Looting & Oil; Round-up

Gangs of Latakia: The Militiafication of the Assad Regime

Obama Owes Syrians and Americans a Vision of Syria’s Future

Clerics in Egypt Call for Global Jihad Against Regime’s Shiite Allies, Egypt Cuts Syria Ties

Round Up: Qusayr, Hezbollah, Regional Sectarianism, Ehsani on Economics, Foreign Jihadis Behead & Kill for Blasphemy, US Intervention Proposal

Sheikh Muhammad al-Yaqoubi Interviewed by Syria Comment

Has the War Reached Lebanon? Meanwhile, Obama Updates War on Terror

Oil Wars—Nusra’s Expanding Reach—Syrian Taliban

Islamic State Declared in Syria

“Syria in Fragments: Divided Minds, Divided Lives,” by an American in Syria