Articles tagged with: Syria
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
It has been over two years since a wave of protests and revolutions rocked the Arab world, and we have yet to see whether these initial openings will be consolidated into durable, competitive democratic regimes. As the most powerful external actor in the region, America has an important role to play in this process, but what exactly that role should be remains a subject for intense debate.
Not so long ago, most Arab and European political elites were consistently repulsed by America’s adv...
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Wednesday, 22 May, 2013
As the UN’s figures for casualties in Syria tops 80,000 who have died from violence—with several thousands more who have died as a second-order effect of the violence, and many more still whose lives have been irrevocably shattered—it seems strange that so much attention should be given to a few dozen specific casualties.
Yet more column inches have been devoted to these few, if lingering, deaths than all the others—not because of the people who died, but because their deaths may have...
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Tuesday, 21 May, 2013
In the past two years, Western media coverage has focused on the growing popularity of Salafist jihadi groups like the Al-Nusra Front (Jabhat Al-Nusra) in Syria. These groups have ...
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Thursday, 16 May, 2013
On May 11, two powerful car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanlı on the Syrian border, killing at least 51 people. This was not only the worst cross-border spillo...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
DOHA/ISTANBUL, Asharq Al-Awsat—Gulf sources have downplayed the recent Russian statements concerning a weapons deal with Syria.
A military expert has described reports th...
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Tuesday, 14 May, 2013
The contending Lebanese factions have taken their fight from the streets of Beirut and Tripoli to those of Damascus and Homs. Yet, battling it out elsewhere does not mean that Leba...
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Tuesday, 7 May, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat— American secretary of state John Kerry is scheduled to arrive in Russia today for talks with President Vladimir Putin on the ongoing crisis in Syria,...
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Syria’s catastrophe is increasingly leaping over the border of its northern neighbor, Turkey, igniting a whole new set of challenges for the Ankara government and blurring what w...
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LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—The first shipment of US aid reached the Free Syrian Army (FSA) earlier this week, Asharq Al-Awsat has learnt.
Head of the FSA Supreme Military Com...
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Wednesday, 1 May, 2013
On April 25, the White House delivered a letter to Congress stating that the US “intelligence community does assess with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has ...
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