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…o Hezbollah. The attack—carried out on the outskirts of Damascus—was met by a sharp threat of retaliation from both the Syrian and Iranian governments: a significant indicator of the regional reverberations of the Syrian civil war and the general volatility permeating the region....

… more favorable for the kind of agreement he wanted. He shifted his attention to his original peacemaking priority: the Syrians. In an effort to remove a roadblock to even beginning serious talks, he offered the Americans what they would later call his “pocket deposit.” He author...

/ BARAK / 118 deal with a major conflict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that...

… If it is not rectified, Mr Gates predicted, Nato faces a “dismal” future. The conjunction of the Gates speech and the Syrian civil war is very telling. It explains why a 20-year experiment with the idea that western military force can put the world to rights is coming to a clos...

…work of toppling Colonel Muammar Qaddafi and driving back the jihadists in Mali has been left to Franco-British forces. Syrian policy is one of drift, where the administration finds all options unpalatable. In Egypt, Washington has set a red line for the Muslim Brotherhood leader...

…ysis. Last week, while comparing the uprising in Libya against the Moammar Gadhafi regime and the growing unrest in the Syrian street against the Baathist regime of Bashar al-Assad, the prime minister correctly said Libya and Syria were two totally different issues for Turkey. E...

… I said. “It’s dark. The situation is confused. We don’t know whose missiles these are. It doesn’t make sense they’d be Syrian, just sitting there, pointed north. At least give it a few minutes.” I think Yanoush would have grabbed the microphone and told the unit to fire had not...

the Arab League and the international community should focus on the dangers that the Syrian situation poses for regional peace.

Davutoglu has insisted it is ""no longer possible to trust the Syrian government"". Adding provocation to insult

the Syrian regime has pressing reasons to fear Ankara's animosity

protesters can disperse to unlit alleyways to escape arrest—a tactic Syrian

…ey remaining silent or supportive of the Assad regime crushing the pressure for a regime change and reform calls of the Syrian street

Syrian government forces attacked the rebel-held town of Khan

calls for military intervention are being made by Syrian

who was not only my counterpart as Syrian chief-