By Fabrice Balanche|2025-12-06T15:08:40+01:005 December 2025|Publication, Syria|
The Druze and Alawite communities are demanding the division of the country in the face of widespread bloodshed and insecurity. While Sheikh Hikmat al-Hijri advocates for a Druze state with the support of Israel, the [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-11-23T20:33:55+01:0023 November 2025|Publication, Syria|
The 2025 massacres against Alawites, Druze, and Christians shattered the trust of minorities in the new Syrian regime. Despite his denials, Ahmad al-Sharaa finds it difficult to separate himself from the atrocities committed by HTS. [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2025-03-25T08:20:05+01:0025 March 2025|Analysis, Publication, Syria|
The early-March 2025 massacres against the Alawites caused the deaths of thousands of people. Analyzing these events helps to understand the motivations of their perpetrators and the sequence of operations. Published in French in Revue [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2024-09-26T06:58:11+02:0025 September 2024|Lebanon, Middle-East, Publication|
Fabrice Balanche, in Lebanon after the Cedar Revolution, Are Knudsen and Michael Kerr, 2012, London, Hurst, 323 p. The socio-economic dimensions of the Lebanese conflict have often been overlooked in favour of political and geopolitical readings [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-23T21:30:51+02:0023 April 2023|Middle-East, Publication|
Syrian mercenaries against Karabakh Article published in Haut-Karabakh: le livre noir, edited by Eric Denécée and Tigrane Yégavian. Ellipses, French Center for Intelligence Research, Paris, 2022 During its offensive against Karabakh, Azerbaijan used Syrian mercenaries. [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T12:11:51+02:002 April 2023|Near-East, Publication|
Cover Atlas of the Near East: State Formation and the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1918-2010 The Atlas of the Near East offers an in-depth examination of the economic, social, and demographic dynamics of the Arab Near [...]
By Fabrice Balanche|2023-04-02T14:22:44+02:0015 March 2023|Lebanon, Publication, Syria|
Syria and Lebanon are now two states under foreign influence, fragmented by ethnic, religious and tribal antagonisms that seem irreducible. Beyond international geopolitics and the Arab-Israeli conflict, the causes of their respective failures are also [...]
