Hania Mortada is a journalist. https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/contributor/hania-mortada/rss en Fri, 25 Jul 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Hania Mortada https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/07/25/foreign-policy-a-foothold-on-the-euphrates-a-boot-heel-on-the-tigris https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/07/25/foreign-policy-a-foothold-on-the-euphrates-a-boot-heel-on-the-tigris Before ISIS stomped Mosul and turned Iraq upside down, it slowly crushed its enemies to death in Raqqa. Government & Pro-Government Forces Opposition Groups & Rebel Forces Thu, 02 Jan 2014 00:00:00 +0000 Hania Mortada https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/01/02/the-islamist-enemy-of-our-islamist-enemy https://www.newsdeeply.com/syria/articles/2014/01/02/the-islamist-enemy-of-our-islamist-enemy BEIRUT — When he was a fighter with the Free Syrian Army (FSA), waging war against President Bashar al-Assad’s forces in the northern economic hub of Aleppo, Abu Muhannad’s confidence verged on presumptuousness.