The fate of the military factions and the fate of the defected officers in the new Ministry of Defense?



A study published by the Omran Center for Strategic Studies revealed that the Assad regime’s salary policies for state employees push society toward militarization by increasing the salaries of military personnel, which exceed those of civilian government jobs. It highlights…


The Omran Center for Strategic Studies presented an analytical paper revealing how the Assad regime carried out the “Alawitization” of the army—facilitating control over it through Alawite sectarianism. The center pointed out that Assad’s regime distributed the forty most important…