 Boston Globe Turkey today has pressing reasons to repair relations with Israel. Most obvious is Erdogan's belated disenchantment with the gangster regime of Bashar Assad in Syria. Before the current Syrian revolt against that regime, Erdogan made a big show of ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Conflicting Iranian Positions vis-à-vis Syrian President Assad MEMRI (blog) At the same time, he urged Assad to pay serious heed to the just demands of his people. Former Iranian ambassador to the UN and to China, Ali Khorram, said that supporting Assad at the present time only harmed Iran, and that it should support the ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Success of armed Libya revolt adds new leaf to 'Arab Spring' Sacramento Bee Some detect such rumblings in Syria, where President Bashar Assad has battered protesters with tanks and gunboats, killing at least 2200 people, according to the United Nations. "There is a lot at stake, and the (Syrian) regime is giving no other ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Palestinian refugees in Syria remain in the crossfire Catholic Online By Catholic Online (NEWS CONSORTIUM) The brutal crackdown in Syria on the part of the government of President Bashar al-Assad - which has killed 2200 civilian protestors, according to figures gathered by the United Nations, is especially troublesome ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Jordanians Pay Price as Syria Roils The Media Line The 34-year-old former soldier is seeking asylum with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). “I can't return to Syria as long as the Al-Assad regime is ruling. They arrested my brother and destroyed my house after I ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| MBC axes show in solidarity with Syrian people Rapid tv news Al Arabiya, MBC's Arabic news station, reports that Kordahi said the escalating internal protests against Syria's President Bashar al-Assad were the result of “a foreign conspiracy” and that the “Arab Spring” had “sown chaos across the Arab world”. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Russia stands on wrong side of Arab Spring The National The same applies to Syria. The way Moscow has been handling the Syrian issue at the UN Security Council is deluding Mr Al Assad's regime into believing that it is ultimately immune to international pressure, the editor added. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| LEADERSHIP: What Tyrants Learned From Libya Strategy Page August 28, 2011: Now that Libyan dictator Moamar Kaddafi has lost control of his country, BasherAssad, the second generation Assad running Syria, is paying close attention to what Kaddafi did wrong. The most obvious error was to make too many enemies ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Arab Revolution through Egyptian Eyes Ahram Online In 2006, during Israel's attack on Lebanon, a delegation of pro-resistance Egyptian activists and intellectuals visited Syria for negotiations with Bashar El-Assad. But since revolution broke out in 2011, many have shifted their stand. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syrian gov't troops kill 2 armed near capital: witness People's Daily Online US President Barak Obama last week made his explicit call for al-Assad to step aside, underscoring the tough talk with new sanctions that hit the largest state-owned Commercial Bank of Syria and the SyriaTel cell phone operator. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Syria profile - Overview BBC News Baath government has seen authoritarian rule at home and a strong anti-Israeli policy abroad, particularly under former President Hafez al-Assad. In 1967 Syria lost the Golan Heights to the Israelis, while civil war in neighbouring Lebanon allowed it ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Hidden costs of Israel delegitimization SanFranciscoSentinel.com ... his own citizens and the Palestinian refugees living in Syria since 1948 committed by Syriandictator Bashar Assad; the hope of bolstering the Palestinians' UN statehood bid in September; the desire to stir up tensions between Israel and Egypt. ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| What's next for Libya? Deccan Chronicle Seeing how the resolution on Libya was stretched, Russia and some in the Arab world are reluctant to arm the West with UN' authority to intervene in Syria. Europe, in any case, is counting the cost of its air warfare over Libya in today's straightened ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Palestinian Statehood – Kalaam Faadi Swans This has had the effect of turning the victims into the "terrorists" and war criminals, such as the late Slobodan Milosevic, the judicially murdered Saddam Hussein, now Gadhafi, and Assad, Hamas, and other Palestinians, and no doubt many others to come ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
| Cameron must quit 'playing God' while he is ahead Irish Independent The threat to a regime from incisive satire was seen last week by an assault on Syria's leading political cartoonist, who was left for dead in a street. One of the last cartoons he drew before the attack showed the Syrian president, Bashar Assad, ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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| Caricom and Libya Stabroek News Even if they really didn't know enough about history to come up with comparable examples, they might have adverted their attention to Syria, where there has been no armed uprising, and where President Assad's military forces have been shooting down ... See all stories on this topic » | ||
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