Articles tagged with: crisis
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Monday, 21 Jan, 2013
A raid by the Algerian army on Saturday ended the four-day hostage crisis wherein a total of at least eighty people are said to have died. On Sunday, an Algerian security source reported that 48 foreigners were among those killed. The death toll is expected to rise as many foreign workers remain unaccounted for. The Mulathameen Brigade, an Al-Qaeda affiliated militia group operating in Algeria, captured foreign workers at the In Amenas gas plant in southeastern Algeria last Wednesday.
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Tuesday, 6 Nov, 2012
As the opposition Syrian National Council (SNC) meets in Qatar this week in a bid to broaden its membership, renewed chaos and intensified clashes between the rebels and government forces in Syria have continued to rattle the country.
Two hundred and fifty Syrians were killed on Monday alone. Today, British Prime Minister David Cameron announced on Al-Arabiya television that he would back safe passage for President Bashar Al-Assad if it would mean a safe transition in Syria.
On Monday, th...
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Friday, 31 Aug, 2012
The deadlock in Syria has continued for another week with no signs of an end in sight amidst reports of new massacres, faltering attempts to deal with an acute refugee crisis, and ...
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Diplomatic pressure on Syria has intensified even further this week, with the UN making its strongest condemnation of President Bashar Al-Assad’s government yet, following news o...
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Monday, 16 Jan, 2012
UN Secretary General Ban Ki Moon has repeated his plea to the Syrian President, Bashar Al-Assad, to “stop killing and listen to his people." Speaking in Abu Dhabi on Monday, ...
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The escalating crisis over Iran’s nuclear program will not have a happy ending. Every conventional course of action that could be taken by western policymakers and negotiator...
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Tuesday, 3 Jan, 2012
The President of the Syrian National Council (SNC), Burhan Ghalioun, considers the end of the Assad regime in Syria to be close at hand. Despite serious misgivings about the im...
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Andam Omar, like many young men in their twenties, enjoys the ever-developing face of Erbil, the de facto capital of Kurdish Iraq. At the new—and expansive—Tablo Mall he bo...
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Friday, 24 Jun, 2011
Tottering on the brink of default this past week, Greece once again hit the headlines as its government was reshuffled and angry crowds rioted in central Athens.
Greece fidd...
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Tuesday, 21 Jun, 2011
The escalating violence and repression unleashed by Bashar al-Assad against protestors in Syria has been "as horrific as it was predictable". In spite of officials call on Syri...
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