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The international political scene as it relates to Syria can only be described as Dickensian, Kafkaesque and Orwellian, can only be accurately captured and narrated by Dostoyevski, and can only be handled by leaders with a deep sense of moral commitment and gumption.
Syria’s instability now extends to its neighbors.
Nearly a year and a half after the revolution that ousted former president Hosni Mubarak, Egyptians are getting to choose their president for the first time.
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Huddled under Beirut's concrete bridges and around street corners are thousands of Syrian men who have left home and crossed the border in recent months in the hope of finding work as...
ANKARA, Turkey — Syria is allowing Kurdish rebels who are fighting Turkish forces to establish bases in Syrian territory, as ties between the two neighboring countries deteriorate, a Turkish minister said Wednesday.
Abdal Hakim Bashar the head of the Kurdish Syrian National Council (KNC), an umbrella group of 15 of the 17 total Kurdish parties in Syria, is confident of the fall of the Assad regime.
AMMAN, Jordan — A prominent Palestinian writer who was jailed in Syria for nearly three weeks described the facilities as “human slaughterhouses,” saying security agents beat detainees with batons, crammed them into stinking cells and tied them to...
Aren’t countries with diverse economies supposed to be good at deposing dictators?
Audiences in the UAE, mostly Syrian expats, have been receiving "Spring Sonata," a one-man show mocking Syria's promised programme of reforms in the f...
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An oil tanker belonging to Iran’s state-owned shipping line has been switching flags and using multiple companies to transport crude from Syria to Iran, illustrating how Tehran is helping to sidestep international efforts to choke the finances of... 
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - U.N.Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he believed al Qaeda was responsible for two suicide car bombs that killed at least 55 people in Syria a week ago and that... |
CAIRO (AP) — Egyptians say they want their next leader to be honorable, smart, a knight, a man with a heart, a military man, a religious man, one who goes down and meets with the people. What they are really looking for is a superman.
The failure of the United Nations to take decisive action on Syria shows it is no longer "fit for purpose" and is becoming "redundant as a guardian of global peace", Amnesty International has reported.
Letters: In Bosnia, Palestine and Syria, nations haven't been willing to take adequate measures to protect civilians, and international law, binding nations to support humanity, is being tossed aside...
A year after Egypt's revolt, many are disappointed with the situation in the country.
DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — Syria's oil minister acknowledged the heavy toll international sanctions have taken on the country's oil sector, saying Wednesday that they had sucked about $4 billion from the economy.
AMMAN (Reuters) - A dissident from President Bashar al-Assad 's minority Alawite sect is urging his co-religionists not to fear for their fate if the Syrian leader falls, arguing the "end of totalitarianism" is the best guarantee for the survival...
The weekend before last I was in Hatay province, in southern Turkey, interviewing Syrian rebels and activists, who all complained of the lack of foreign assistance in toppling the Assad regime.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - When U.S.President Barack Obama and the leaders of Germany, France, Britain, Canada and the European Union first issued public calls for Syria's President Bashar al-Assad to step...
In the April 5 edition of The New Republic I published an essay called “The Thought Police” on Islamist campaigns to suppress independent thinking, as described in a Hudson Institute human...
As I find myself traveling again, I cannot help but make a few observations on recent developments in Syria.
As Putin’s Ego goes nuclear by proxy, the Assads continue to perpetrate their massacres across Syria. * Turkish banks being used on deals - source* Middle men broking deals for SyriaBy Jonathan Saul and Sarah McFarlaneLONDON, May 17 (Reuters) - Syria is casting a wide net in afrantic bid to secure... |
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