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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

which has been battling with separatist terrorism for the past 25 years. Turkey remaining silent or supportive of the Assad regime crushing the pressure for a regime change and reform calls of the Syrian street

and for authors found in the 1938 blacklist (blue). The Nazi regime (1933-1945) is highlighted

Mr Assad’s regime is much less likely to fall than that

to access to the Muslim Qibla is the major goal of the Iranian regime. We will

of their fellow citizens to demand the ouster of the regime

to show solidarity and monitor the regime’s actions.

that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in

working with former regime officials and homegrown

FATF in its most recent assessment of the United States’ anti-money regime

FATF in its most recent assessment of the United States' anti-money regime

Freedom House 2. Marginalizing the opposition: As noted above, authoritarian leaders use their media power to paint critics as knaves or buffoons. Especially through television coverage, opposition figures are presented as clownish, effeminate, shady, elitist, or enslaved by for...

12 ordinary Syrians. A dialogue of the deaf ensued. The Assads’ intense preoccupation with external crises led them to neglect the internal scene. Who would need political freedoms, they no doubt thought, if given the benefits of security and stability? As the regime’s official...

4 about how to deal with the growing protests has led to increasingly violent confrontations inside the regime between would-be reformers and hard-liners. The outcome of this internal contest remains uncertain. What is certain, however, is that what happens in Syria is of great...

3 slow and often costly business. This is one of the particular grievances that have powered the protest movement, though certainly the ripples of the successful Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings played a hand. The government, to put it bluntly, responded poorly. Troops in Daraa f...