Deepening instability, minority distrust and foreign meddling test Damascus’s grip on a fractured state.
Marwan Kabalan is the Director of Policy Analysis at the Arab Centre for Research and Policy Studies.
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In recent days, leaked recordings and documents have provided the rough outline of a conspiracy to launch an insurgency in the Alawite-dominated coastal region of Syria. Behind the plan are a number of high-level officials of the former regime of Bashar al-Assad living in exile. The leaks reveal the recruitment of fighters within the Alawite community, the movement and storage of weapons, and the transfer of payments to their families.
