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Damascus Reverts to Form

Damascus Reverts to Form

Well, that didn’t last long. Last week, Syrian President Bashar Assad announced he would resume peace negotiations with Israel without preconditions, but now he suddenly says it’s impossible. “What we lack is an Israeli partner,” (...)

17 nov. 2009 | | Michael J. Totten

A new beginning, but not for Lebanon

They say old habits die hard. This blog died, albeit softly. Walid Jumblatt, some will also say, lived to kill, again, those who died for an idea he helped foment. But to attack Jumblatt for his gradual about face risks lending his soon to be former (...)

5 aoû. 2009 | | Abu Kais

Desperate moves

You know the Assad regime is desperate when their own creation had to issue a statement denying televised allegations that they were behind a recent Damascus bombing. Fatah al-Islam today denied claims in “confessions” aired by Syrian TV that (...)

12 nov. 2008 | | Abu Kais

More on Syria Raid

More on the US raid on a house in Syria : The LAT wonders if the attack will derail US-Syrian steps toward rapprochement. Syrian officials are complaining that the raid, which left 8 Syrians dead, was ’irrational’ and contravened (...)

27 oct. 2008 | | Juan Cole

Syrian blogger Biassi jailed for 3 years

Syrian blogger Tariq Biassi has been jailed for three years for allegedly criticising the Syrian secret services in an article posted on an online forum. Biassi, 23, originally arrested in July, 2007, was found guilty of “publishing false (...)

16 mai. 2008 | | Jon Newton

Radical Syrian cleric ’shot dead’

A very bizare incident happened in Aleppo Syria. A radical Syrian cleric, who was suspected of recruiting militants to fight in Iraq, was shot dead. I have no doubts the cleric was used by the Syrian regime in its proxy war against the US in Iraq, but (...)

2 oct. 2007 | 1 comment | The Big Pharaoh

Olmert hearts Assad ?

A year after Ehud Olmert described Syria as "the single most aggressive member of the axis of evil", dismissing peace negotiations until "Syria stops supporting terrorism, when it stops giving missiles to terror organizations", the (...)

21 sep. 2007 | | Abu Kais

Hizbullah constructing facilities in Bekaa, Syria occupies 4% of Lebanon

Hizbullah constructing facilities in Bekaa, Syria occupies 4% of Lebanon

The UN Security Council confirmed in a statement yesterday that Hizbullah is constructing facilities in the Bekaa valley. It also took note of arms smuggling across the border with Syria (quick, call Reuters). The Security Council, in this context, (...)

27 jui. 2007 | 1 comment | Abu Kais

Diplomacy of the Absurd

Italian foreign minister Massimo D’Alema paid the Assad regime a visit today to "tell Damascus that it was not the target of a UN Security Council resolution approving an international tribunal to try suspects, including several top Syrian (...)

6 jui. 2007 | | Abu Kais

I’m American, Blame Me

I'm American, Blame Me

Hey guys, this is David Kenner — your host for the next few days. Though I am only your virtual host, I have lived here long enough to still feel vaguely guilty that I cannot provide you with a table full of mezze and arak, then become incredulous (...)

25 mai. 2007 | | Abu Kais

Tribal justice

The chances of finding Ziad Qabalan (25) and Ziad Ghandour (12) alive seem to be slim. Rumours claim their bodies were already found, and that the authorities are delaying the announcement. Officials spent Wednesday denying rumours, condemning and calling (...)

26 avr. 2007 | 1 comment | Abu Kais

Pelosi in Syria

Pelosi in Syria

Nancy Pelosi, as you may have heard, has gone to Syria to, among other things, meet with the leaders of that country, one with which the United States officially has diplomatic relations but which the Bush administration has been seeking to coerce into (...)

4 avr. 2007 | | Matthew Yglesias

Alienating the Beating Heart of Middle East

Alienating the Beating Heart of Middle East

The United States is seeking a “new Middle East” by alienating the Syrian beating heart of the strategic region. Washington wants Syria to cooperate as near as in Iraq, Palestine and Lebanon and as far as in Iran but is sending her messages (...)

28 Jul. 2006 | | nicola

Jumblatt : Syria trying to change balance of power

In a interview with Orbit Sunday night, and in reference to the spate of killings and attacks in the country since October 2004, Walid Jumblatt said the ’murderers’ objective is to kill enough MPs to bring about a change in the balance of (...)

19 déc. 2005 | | Abu Kais

The second Mehlis report : summary and remarks

Detlev Mehlis Sunday submitted his second progress report to the UN security council, after six months of unprecedented investigative work aimed at assisting the Lebanese government in finding and eventually prosecuting the killers responsible for the (...)

15 déc. 2005 | | Abu Kais

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