Search: Syria,Security forces (3 materials)

Assad’s Army and Intelligence Services: Feudalization or Structurization?

... exclusively on external intelligence activities, while the second could be engaged in counterintelligence and anti-terror activities. In other words, Syrian intelligence services would be brought up to global standards. It is also imperative to create border security forces to control Syria’s eastern frontiers first and foremost, but also the entire border, as a kind of unified system with its own social and infrastructural characteristics. While Hafez al-Assad paid special attention to the country’s tribes, granting their leaders ...

13.03.2018

Major Challenges for the Military and Security Services in Syria

Syria’s military and security forces play a key institutional role, which has kept the country from total collapse during the last six years of war The role of the military and security services has been crucial to the stability of regimes in the Middle East for the last ...

15.02.2018

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