Articles written by: Andrew Bowen
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Wednesday, 3 Apr, 2013
If confirmed, recent reports about the use of chemical weapons in Syria, in Kahn Al-Asal last month and in Homs in December 2012, possibly signal that President Bashar Al-Assad is testing the international community’s red line. In addition, a growing body of evidence suggests that the Assad regime has moved to either increase the security measures on its stockpile of chemical weapons or to transport them to safer locales. However, no definitive evidence that these agents are being loaded into ...
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Friday, 15 Feb, 2013
President Obama kicked off his second term in office with an agenda firmly focused on domestic issues. The conflict in Syria, with more than 70,000 dead and its ills already starting to reach its neighbors, received barely a mention in either Obama’s Inaugural Address or his State of the Union speech to Congress.
Syria did receive unexpected attention in an interview with the then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in the New York Times at the end of January. In her interview, the former Se...
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Monday, 21 Jan, 2013
While Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki is in no position to refuse Tehran, his own power calculations have driven a continued relationship with Damascus, even twenty-one mo...
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Friday, 11 Jan, 2013
With the unveiling of the second-term national security team, Senator John Kerry, former Senator Chuck Hagel, and John Brennan—a group of men who are noted for their oppositi...
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Monday, 17 Sep, 2012
In this timely interview, The Majalla speaks with Syria’s long-serving former vice president, Abdul Halm Khaddam, who served under both Hafez Al-Assad and Bashar Al-Assad a...
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Friday, 14 Sep, 2012
The Icarus Syndrome by Peter Beinart
Few books capture the transformation of America’s foreign policy and the nation’s psyche in the hours and months after t...
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Thursday, 30 Aug, 2012
As Syria faces its eighteen month of ongoing conflict, neither the opposition nor the ruling regime appears to be gaining significant ground. The loosely connected opposition, a my...
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Wednesday, 18 Jul, 2012
As the international community’s efforts to resolve the crisis in Syria have reached a deadlock with stark disagreements over the UN Security Council draft resolution current...
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Thursday, 12 Jul, 2012
On Monday during the Syrian National Council’s visit to Moscow, Vladimir Putin’s remarks to the diplomatic corps made his most decisive statement yet on the crisis in Syria...
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Despite attempts by Hilary Clinton to woo her Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov into accepting Kofi Annan’s last ditch peace plan, calling for a transitional government that ...
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