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…d Dayan as defense minister, Shimon Peres. The analysis of military intelligence included separate teams for Egypt and Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Iraq and other neighboring states, as well as other countries and superpower relations. It relied on all our raw intelligence materia...

Shaaban described the recent statements of President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Syria as “not too bad

they also tried to tell me that there had been no riots in Aleppo or Damascus. I was told that gun battles had only occurred in a few towns near the border

Syria established a partnership in 1979 with the newborn Islamic Republic of Iran. And once Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 in a bid to expel Syrian influence

…give McMaster a fourth star and “promote” him to top military commander in Afghanistan. As with the chemical attack in Syria, it was Dina Powell—even as she made increasingly determined efforts to get herself out of the White House, either on a Sheryl Sandberg trajectory or, sto...

…strategic vacuum simply shifted the regional balance of power in favor of non-Arab and/or non-traditional powers. Iran, Syria, and Qatar — and later Turkey — have been the biggest beneficiaries of Egypt’s neutrality on the Palestinian issue. Aware of the popular sentiment in fav...

…ave faced a reopening of all the old wounds from the Uri Ilan mission. But not only had we managed to get in and out of Syria in one piece. We had taken at least a first step toward erasing the blind spot in our intelligence capabilities shown up so dramatically by Rotem. A few d...

so it would have only a limited ability to directly assist Iran in a conflict with the United States. Syria’s missile systems could target military sites

consumed by hypocrisy as it cheers on some brave Arabs (but not those in Syria) while brutalizing its own seekers of the freedom promised in 1979. Arabs aren’t buying Iranian hypocrisy. Only Iran’s command of Revolutionary Guard force and the opposition’s lack of a shared goal sa...

… Kanli The National Interest Stars Are Aligned for a Solution in Cyprus Ozdil Nami The diplomat China’s Instructive Syria Policy Adrien Morin HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031569

…zing far quicker than governments can handle it. If you look at what's happening in ISIS, which is the Islamic State of Syria and the Levant, that is now currently forming the caliphate that is having a military drive on Baghdad, if you look at the sophistication of which they've...

…ce a pivot to Asia when: Iran — moving to nukes Egypt — Mubarak is in a cage and new govt could be seriously anti-US Syria — disintegrating Iraq — could fragment KSA — ripe for revolution ME peace process 1s dead Israel — at more serious risk than in living memory 13 HOUS...

…it with iran. the solutions become more compelx with time not less. i think many people would like your views on egypt. syria, etc. russias role.? i think you might point out the gassing of "women and children" is an expressions from the 20th centry. women are no longer equiv to...

but it needs to redefine the conflict. The Iranians and Hezbollah are among those most concerned with the fall of the Syrian regime. Syria has been Iran's one significant ally

but we must be careful about accepting the narrative that the whole of Syria is demanding change. The largest cities of Aleppo and Damascus remain relatively calm