Articles tagged with: US
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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, 15 May, 2013
The Pentagon recently announced Washington’s approval of a new USD 10 billion arms sale that for the first time involves three of its Middle East allies: Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
The arms deal came after “intensive defense shuttle diplomacy” over many months and “is one of the most significant and complex and comprehensive that we’ve seen,” senior Pentagon officials said at a media briefing, according to a transcript. Its price tag makes it second only t...
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Wednesday, 15 May, 2013
In 2008, the then fresh-faced US presidential hopeful Barack Obama promised to shut down the detention center that had become famous as a symbol of the presidency of George W. Bush...
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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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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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Thursday, 18 Apr, 2013
I was visiting the Boston area, where I grew up, when two explosions went off on Monday at the world-renowned Boston Marathon, killing at least three people, including an eight-yea...
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Friday, 12 Apr, 2013
It seems that time may not be on Iran’s side. Following the breakdown of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council and Germany...
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Wednesday, 10 Apr, 2013
LONDON, Asharq Al-Awsat—US Sectary of State John Kerry has completed the Middle Eastern part of his current ten-day tour, which saw him meet with political leaders in Turkey, I...
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Wednesday, 10 Apr, 2013
On a recent visit to Iraq, I found little appetite or excitement for the upcoming local elections scheduled for April 20. One taxi driver said, “They’ve only recently finis...
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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 ...
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