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US Syria Sanctions To Be Eased 'Case-By-Case'

New York Times | Posted 08.28.2009 | World

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The Obama administration said Tuesday that it would take new steps to ease American sanctions against Syria on a case-by-case basis, the latest sign o...

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The Arabs Need a Nelson Mandela, Who Knows When to Go

Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi | Posted 08.20.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Mahmoud Abbas, Lebanon, Yemen, Gamal-Abdel-Nasser, Algeria, Morocco, Democracy, Fatah, Hamas, Bashar Al-Assad, Nelson Mandela, Arabs, Egypt, Israel, Kuwait, Syria, World News
Sultan Sooud Al-Qassemi

We desperately need a visionary leader in the Arab world, monarch or republican, who steps aside and oversees in his lifetime a peaceful democratic transfer of power.

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Michel Kilo: Syrian Dissident Writer Freed From Prison

BBC | Posted 06.27.2009 | World

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Syrian writer and pro-democracy campaigner Michel Kilo has been released from prison after serving a three-year sentence....

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Jordan's King Abdullah: Israel Needs Peace Now Or There Will Be War Next Year

Times Online | Posted 06.11.2009 | World

Read More: Palestine, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lebanon, Netanyahu, Foreign Affairs, Hezbollah, Hamas, Barack Obama, Bashar Al-Assad, Binyamin Netanyahu, Obama Israel Policy, Avigdor Lieberman, Benjamin Netanyahu, Hassan Nasrallah, Israel, Syria, Advocacy, World News

America is putting the final touches to a hugely ambitious peace plan for the Middle East, aimed at ending more than 60 years of conflict between Isra...

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Netanyahu: Israel Will Never Withdraw From Golan

Haaretz | Posted 06.08.2009 | World

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told a group of Russian-language reporters Thursday that Israel will never withdraw from the Golan Heights. ...

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Hariri Assassination Suspects' Release Ordered By UN Tribunal

AP | SAM F. GHATTAS | Posted 05.30.2009 | World

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BEIRUT — Lebanon released four generals held for nearly four years in the 2005 truck-bomb assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri af...

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Sy Hersh: Syria Still Wants Peace With Israel, Despite Gaza Operation

The New Yorker | Seymour M. Hersh | Posted 05.01.2009 | World

Read More: Syria Israel Talks, Foreign Affairs, Golan Heights, Syria Israel, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Barack Obama, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, Advocacy, Binyamin Netanyahu, Gaza-Palistine, World News

When the Israelis' controversial twenty-two-day military campaign in Gaza ended, on January 18th, it also seemed to end the promising peace talks betw...

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Syria's Assad Praises Obama, Asks For Meeting

AP | Posted 04.18.2009 | World

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ROME — Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed worry over what he sees as Israeli society's turn to the right, according to a newspaper inte...

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Lebanon Opens First Ever Embassy In Syria

AP | ALBERT AJI | Posted 04.16.2009 | World

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DAMASCUS, Syria — Lebanon on Monday opened an embassy in Syria, sealing the establishment of full diplomatic relations between the long-feuding ...

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Syria Launches Damascus Securities Exchange As Part Of Economic Liberalization Effort

AFP | Posted 04.10.2009 | World

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Syria launched its first stock exchange Tuesday after years of delays, in the latest step to liberalize its largely state-controlled economy. Finance ...

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Understanding Syrian Rapprochement: Optimists Versus Cynics

Stuart Whatley | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

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Stuart Whatley

Underlying the prospect for renewed diplomacy with Damascus is the universally accepted possibility that Assad will merely feign peace efforts without ever following through -- for which he, and his father before him, are notorious.

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Foreign Policy, Not the Economy, May Define the Obama Presidency

David Paul | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Pakistan, Economic Crisis, President Obama, Hamas, Taliban, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Russia Georgia War, Realism, Dmitry Medvedev, Bashar Al-Assad, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Vladimir Putin, Neoconservatives, Global Financial Crisis, Israel, Syria, Soviet Union, 100 Days, Politics News
David Paul

Even as the Obama administration may be consumed by efforts to stem the recession, we appear to be at a tipping point in foreign affairs.

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Where is the Muslim Outrage Over Darfur?

Ali A. Rizvi | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: War Crimes, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, Darfur, Omar Al-Bashir, Rape, Gaza, Janjaweed Militia, Sudan, United Nations, Genocide, Arab League, Muslims, Israel, Bashar Al-Assad, International Criminal Court, World News
Ali A. Rizvi

Where are the large-scale protests and outrage from the Muslim community over the senseless deaths and rape of hundreds of thousands of poverty-ridden African Muslims?

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What Happens in Syria Stays in Syria

Jamal Dajani | Posted 12.01.2008 | Politics

Read More: Lebanon, John McCain, Middle East, Terrorism, George W. Bush, Conspiracy, Hezbollah, Attack on Syria, US Elections, Israel, Iraq, Bashar Al-Assad, Syria, Al Qaeda, Politics News
Jamal Dajani

Another bizarre incident was added to the string of assassinations and attacks that have plagued Syria for the past year. On October 26th an American ...

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Despite a Tenuous Peace, Mistrust Remains High in Beirut

Jared Levy | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Hizballah, Lebanon, Beirut, SSNP, American University of Beirut, Saad Hariri, West Beirut, Bashar Al-Assad, Politics News
Jared Levy

Nearly two months after the cessation of violence in Hamra, sectarian and political tensions continue to run high.

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The Taming of the Lion

Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Jamal Dajani

Syria claims that Israel has made an offer to withdraw from the Golan Heights in exchange for a peace deal with Damascus. This is particularly intriguing.

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics

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Steve Clemons

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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