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Iraq: Elections But No Stability

Fri, 19 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Huffington Post - Mar. 19 (Opinion) - With close to 90% of the votes tallied in Iraq's parliamentary elections, the coalition headed by Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki has taken a slim lead over the bloc led by his main challenger, Iyad Allawi. A day ago, it was the later. Since March

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Israel, Syria Announce Nuclear Energy Ambitions

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Mar. 09 (News Report) - Mideast rivals Israel and Syria on Tuesday each announced ambitions to develop nuclear energy, with Israel facing the prospect that its plan could bring new attention to its secretive nuclear activities.

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With friends like Israel …

Fri, 26 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Sydney Morning Herald - By Paul Daley - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - Mossad has made it much harder for Australians to travel in the Middle East, writes Paul Daley. If you travel to Arab countries on a passport as seemingly innocuous as one bearing the Australian coat of arms, some security authorities will still

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Syria and Iran defend strong ties

Thu, 25 Feb 2010 00:00:00 -0800

Aljazeera - Feb. 25 (News Report) - Damascus and Tehran have decided to cancel visa restrictions between the two countries [EPA] Syria and Iran have defended their strong ties and dismissed US efforts to break up the 30-year-alliance

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The Jihadist Next Door

Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:00:00 -0800

New York Times - By Andrea Elliott - Jan. 29 (Special Report) - In his small-town Alabama high school, Omar Hammami was among the coolest, most gifted students in his class. How did he grow up to become a leader in an African terror group linked to Al Qaeda?

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PM heads to Washington, under threat of Palestinian statehood declaration

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Haaretz - By Barak Ravid, Natasha Mozgovaya - Nov. 08 (News) - Concerns are growing in Israel's government over the possibility of a unilateral Palestinian declaration of independence within the 1967 borders, a move which could potentially be recognized by the United Nations Security Council.

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The Story of 'Operation Orchard': How Israel Destroyed Syria's Al Kibar Nuclear Reactor - SPIEGEL ONLINE - News - International

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 11:27:40 -0800

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Yearning for the Golan Heights: Why Syria Wants It Back

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

TruthOut - By Julien Barnes-Dacey - Sep. 28 (News) - Syria's cooperation is crucial to the chief goal of President Obama's Middle East policy: Arab-Israeli peace. With ties to three Israeli enemies - Iran, and the militant groups Hezbollah and Hamas - Syria says it can moderate the threats against the Jewish state and thus pave the way for reciprocal Israeli concessions to the Palestinians and their Arab allies.

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No Peace Without Syria

Sun, 06 Sep 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Commentary Magazine - By Michael J. Totten - Sep. 06 (Opinion) - No Arab government in the world is as stridently anti-Israel, in both action and rhetoric, as Assad’s. There is no better way for a detested Alawite regime to curry favor with Sunnis in Syria and the Arab world as a whole than by adopting the anti-Zionist cause as its own.

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As Iraq runs dry, a plague of snakes is unleashed

Sun, 21 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - Jun. 21 (News Report) - Swarms of snakes are attacking people and cattle in southern Iraq as the Euphrates and Tigris rivers dry up and the reptiles lose their natural habitat among the reed beds.

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Muslims in Syria Like Obama's Tone But Want New Policy

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New America Media - By Shane Bauer - Jun. 05 (News Report) - -Muslim shopkeepers, activists, and analysts in Damascus who watched Obama’s speech Thursday appreciated what they saw as a clear change in the U.S. attitude toward the Muslim world. But most are skeptical, saying they want a fundamental shift in American policy, not just a shift in rhetoric.

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The Swastika and the Cedar

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Vanity Fair - By Christopher Hitchens - Mar. 30 (Special Report) - In newly liberated Lebanon, the signposts on “the Arab street” point in opposite directions. The author’s experiences—he was buoyed by a huge rally for democracy in downtown Beirut, then beaten up by Fascist bullies—show how much this diverse society offers hope but is still threatened by the Syrian dictatorship next door.

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Syria Calling

Sun, 29 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

New Yorker - By Seymour M. Hersh - Mar. 29 (Special Report) - When the Israelis’ controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks between Israel and Syria. The two countries had been engaged for almost a year in negotiations through intermediaries in Istanbul. Many complicated technical matters had been resolved, and there were agreements in principle on the normalization of diplomatic relations. The consensus, as an ambassador now serving in Tel Aviv put it, was that the two sides had been “a lot closer than you might think.”

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Arab Leaders Can't Come Together, Not Even into a Room

Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Global Voices - By Anas Qtiesh - Jan. 15 (News Analysis) - As the aggression on Gaza enters its third week, Arab Leaders fail to agree on the need of holding an emergency summit for the member countries of the Arab League which Qatar and Syria have called for. Syrian bloggers are outraged at the political ping-pong going on that highlights what could be described as the greatest political divide in recent Arab history.

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A New Partner In Syria?

Tue, 23 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Washington Post - By David Ignatius - Dec. 23 (Special Report) - Bashar al-Assad seems to be looking for a new start with a new American president.

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In new ads, Palestinians try to sway Israeli public on peace plan

Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Christian Science Monitor - By Ilene R. Prusher - Dec. 16 (Special Report) - A decade ago, it was the Israeli government that was trying to sell its own skeptical electorate on peace, while the late Yasser Arafat had trouble getting Hamas and other rejectionist groups to sign on to the Oslo deal that he had reached with Israel five years earlier.

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The media's disingenuous failure to state the obvious.

Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Slate - By Christopher Hitchens - Dec. 09 (Opinion) - The obvious is sometimes the most difficult thing to discern, and few things are more amusing than the efforts of our journals of record to keep "open" minds about the self-evident, and thus to create mysteries when the real task of reportage is to dispel them.

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1,200-Year-Old Church Uncovered In Syria

Thu, 13 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Associated Press - Nov. 13 (Special Report) - DAMASCUS, Syria -- Archeologists in central Syria have unearthed a 1,200-year-old church believed to be the largest ever discovered in this Mideast country, an antiquities official said Thursday.

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After U.S. Raid Syrians Wonder if War on Terror Has Arrived - NAM

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

New America Media - By Shane Bauer - Nov. 11 (News Report) - DAMASCUS, Syria - Two weeks after U.S. Special Forces killed eight people in a farm in Eastern Syria, deep suspicions remain about the American claim that it targeted and killed a high level Al-Qaeda operative. Many are left wondering whether the attack is the result of a new strategy in the U.S.-led "war on terror".

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Petraeus Wants to Go to Syria; Bush Administration Says No

Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

ABC News - By Jonathan Karl - Oct. 31 (News Report) - The Bush administration's objections to Petraeus' proposed trip don't come as a surprise. The United States barely has any diplomatic relations with Syria. There is a U.S. Embassy in Damascus, but there has been no ambassador there since 2005. The last senior U.S. official to visit Syria was Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in April 2007, a trip the White House strongly opposed. At the time, President Bush said, "Sending delegations hasn't worked. It's just simply been counterproductive."

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Bush's attack on Syria is typical of his disastrous presidency

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Daily Star (Lebanon) - Oct. 30 (Editorial) - Sunday's cross-border raid into Syria by US forces serves as a reminder that although George W. Bush is now a "lame duck" president, he still retains the ability to make dangerous waves in the Middle East. His power might be easier to accommodate if it had been wielded over the years with good judgement for the purpose of achieving clearly defined objectives.

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Gates Gives Rationale for Expanded Deterrence

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

New York Times - By Thom Shanker - Oct. 29 (News Report) - Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates said Tuesday that the United States would hold “fully accountable” any country or group that helped terrorists to acquire or use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons.

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Syria: Is it Jan. 20 yet?

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Seattle Post Intelligencer - Oct. 29 (Editorial) - The ever-offensive Bush administration couldn't leave without attacking somebody else: Syria. If a special operations raid was the White House idea of an October surprise, Sen. John McCain's campaign can be excused for forgetting to send a thank-you note.

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In Syria, a short-sighted attack

Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Boston Globe - Oct. 29 (Editorial) - THE WEEKEND attack inside Syria by US Special Operations Forces hunting for an alleged smuggler of Al Qaeda recruits into Iraq may have a fleeting tactical benefit, at best. In all other ways, it runs counter to the interests of the United States and its allies.

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US admits raiding Syria to kill terrorist leader

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The Independent - By Patrick Cockburn - Oct. 28 (News Report) - The US is likely to pay a heavy political price for the cross-border raids in terms of Syrian and Pakistani anger, but government retaliation is not likely in either case. A raid into Iran would be different; the Iranians have retaliated swiftly for attacks on their personnel in Iraq. The raid may also intensify Iranian hostility to the Iraqi-US Status of Forces Agreement. "It will be used against the agreement and will give the Iranians reason to increase their interference against [it]," said the Iraqi political veteran Mahmoud Othman. "The neighbouring countries now have good reason to be concerned about the US presence in Iraq."

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