Results for “Syria State”

…, the regime relents, but when Washington offers a more passive response, Iranian aggression increases. With respect to Syria, for example, it cannot be assumed that Bashar al-Assad will fall at all, let alone quickly, without active U.S. engagement. If the Assad HOUSE_OVERSIGHT...

…, the regime relents, but when Washington offers a more passive response, Iranian aggression increases. With respect to Syria, for example, it cannot be assumed that Bashar al-Assad will fall at all, let alone quickly, without active U.S. engagement. If the Assad HOUSE_OVERSIGHT...

…on for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States, and to defend embattled allies like Syria's Bashar al-Assad. There is also growing replica- tion of what might be called authoritarian best practices, vividly on display in the new Chinese law on...

… and, 239 Powell and, 81-82, 140, 145-46, 186-88 Russia and, 239, 256-58, 261-62, 273, 307-8 Saudi Arabia and, 229, 231 Syria and, 190, 192 White House role of, 68-71, 78-81, 118-19, 181, 187, 200, 252, 285 White House staff and, 124, 146-48, 202-3, 268, 272-73, 282-83, 286, 289...

14 Syrian refugees are already sheltering inside Turkey, as are numerous Syrian army defectors. Possibly anticipating Syrian retaliation, the newspaper Hiirriyet reported that President Abdullah Giil recently warned Assad would pay a heavy price for stirring up trouble in Turkey...

…rational flexibility, survivability and a fanatic adherence to the goal. ¢ We're talking about ALQ, Jabhat al-Nusra in Syria, Lashkar-e- Taiba in India, the Houthis in Yemen, the Shabab in Sumali, Boko Haram in Nigeria and many more — all across the Muslim strip, from Marrakesh...

…ators. And in Libya, there is the thrill of liberty, delivered, in part, by Western powers. In the slaughter-grounds of Syria, the rage is not directed against foreign demons, but against the cruel rulers who have robbed that population of a chance at a decent life. America held...

… making peace. But I did feel it was necessary to reassure Clinton that / was serious. I told him that, if and when the Syrians showed real signs of readiness to address our needs in a peace agreement, I would reaffirm the “pocket deposit.” I’d come to Washington hoping that Pr...

…the autocratic King Mohammed VI. For two hours, the placard-raising marchers chanted in unison— The people of Libya and Syria keep getting killed—they’re not afraid!.... Shakira got a million! (a reference to the singer’s fee at a royal event)...Look, see, the people are scary!—a...

…ace process, something Bibi still clearly wanted to avoid as much as humanly possible. It was an attempt to engage with Syria. He asked me about the talks under Rabin and Peres, and my views on the possibility of a deal with President Assad. He also wanted my assessment about wh...

…Egyptian revolutionaries until after Mubarak was clearly a goner, and his inconsistency helping Libya’s rebels, but not Syria’s, were both widely criticized.) By taking control of their own fates, in reality and perception—highly important in this prideful culture—the conversatio...

…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...

…peech to joint session of Congress, 147-50 staff doubts about, 186, 232-33, 242-43, 304-5 staff infighting and, 122-23 Syria and, 183-84, 188-93 tax reform and, 224 tax returns and, 18, 278 television and, 113, 150, 188, 197 transition and, 24-36, 103, 110, 112, 144 White House...

…covery by the CIA in January 2014 of two documents, one 26 pages and the other 19 pages, on a captured ISIS computer in Syria. These documents discussed the advantages of using bubonic plague germs and other biological weapons against Western civilian populations. They even provi...

…I’m going back,” I told him. Motta’s reply took my mind back 15 months, to our on-again-off-again mission to abduct the Syrian officers, with Motta and Dado in the command post, intent on reining in the “young bulls” of the sayeret. “Ehud,” he said, “from what I’m hearing, I don’...