World Service - According to a professor at the University of Oklahoma in America, the dissatisfaction of Arab tribes in Deir Ezzor and Hasakah is not simply ethnic in origin, but rather due to the economic crisis, competition over oil resources, and the feeling of being excluded from the new Syrian power structure.
Syrian Service - The head of the Supreme Council of Syrian Alawites issued a video message, taking a stand against the Syrian interim government and declaring that the struggle to restore violated rights and preserve the dignity of the Alawites will continue.
