Arabic Spring and its consequences, particularly in Syria and later its civil war, has led to fundamental changes in political layouts and alignments in the region and beyond it. One of the main effects of these developments is the deepening of the ethnic and religious divisions in the Middle East and consequently new alignments of national and subnational actors. Subnational ethnic-religious g...

The new-Salafi trend in the Middle East, with its own discourse and disparate combination, actively involved the Syria crisis from its beginning, and gradually became one of the important and yet dangerous actors in the Syria equations. Accordingly, the current research prepares the answers to two interconnected questions, based on discourse analysis approach and analytic-descriptive method: Fi...