A Study of Rural Composition and Map of Tribal and Clan Structures and Their Interactions in Aleppo and Idlib post-2011 The history of Syrian geography is inseparable from the history of its tribes, ...

Deir Ezzor, SANA-Syrian clans and tribes in Deir Ezzor renewed their commitment to homeland and its territorial integrity, affirming support to the Syrian Arab army in the fight against terrorism ...

amid increasing calls from Arab clans and tribes to stand together and unite to confront attempts for imposing division among the Syrian people and to expel Qasad along with the US and Turkish ...

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The president is hoping that limited air strikes, combined with U.S. support for local proxies—the peshmerga, the Iraqi security forces, the Sunni tribes, and the Free Syrian Army—will ...

Some of the tribes that clashed with Syrian forces, Baloukji said, were likely “subcontracted” by Hezbollah to keep the area chaotic, so that the group could keep profiting from smuggling ...

Lebanon’s Bekaa region, which borders Syria, is home to powerful Lebanese tribes that play a significant role in the area’s political and social fabric. The most influential are the Hamada, Jaafar, ...

Some of the tribes had supported IS during its bloody reign, according to the Observatory, which relies on a vast network of sources inside Syria. Syria's war has killed more than half a million ...