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2011 -- The news from Syria grows grimmer by the day—more peaceful protesters killed

but that’s all the more reason not to give it to him. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s 2008 talks with Syria (via Turkey) allowed Syria to escape the partial isolation the United States had imposed on it in that decade

or will Sunni units rebel? Will the Sunni business elites turn against him? How long can the regime survive? We do not yet know the answers. But surely we must avoid any step that could help Assad

Syria was very much like a domestic incident for Turkey.

Syria can be interested in Israel only selectively. When it is interested

Syria must fight through a plain in front of a line of low hills. This is the decisive battleground where massed Israeli forces

the Ottoman province of Syria was divided into two parts on a line roughly running east-west between the sea and Mount Hermon. The northern part was given to France and divided into Lebanon and a rump Syria entity. The southern part was given to Britain and was called Palestine

it could not divert its forces to the north. That helped secure Turkey at a relatively low cost in aid and risk. By aligning itself with the interests of a great power

a litany of Obama Afghanistan-Iraq-Syria-Libya

while Syria could plausibly become another

Syria and other locations. Then another leader comes to

Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak and Syria’s Bashar al-

Alamoudi was detained at Heathrow Airport on his way to Syria. Customs officers seized approximately $340

I was sent to Washington for talks with Syria’s

subverted with U.S. support (in the case of Syria)