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News Headlines May 18, 2013
Posted on 18 May 2013.
North Korea Launches Three Short-Range Missiles Somaliland Marks 22 Years of Independence Meteor Smashes Into Earth’s Moon Greece’s Golden Dawn Makes Genocidal Anti-Muslim Statements Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad Will Not Step Down, Grants Rare Television Interview Russia Deploys 12 Warships to Syria Pakistan Female Politician Zahra Shahid Hussain Assassinated in Karachi Lebanese Man Murders Sister [...]
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Israel Threatens to Strike Syria If Rebels Gain Access to Chemical Weapons
Posted on 28 January 2013.
Silvan Shalom, Israel’s vice premier, said that if it appeared that the Syrian government was losing control of its chemical weapons stockpile in its struggle against rebels fighting against the government of Bashar al-Assad that Israel would launch military strikes on those bases. Silvan Shalom was commenting on a report that leaked to the [...]
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Airstrikes in Northern Syria Leave Destruction in Their Wake
Posted on 07 November 2012.
Airstrikes on Harem town leave 70 dead and there are reports of killings by rebel militias in Idlib. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has allegedly resorted to heavy aerial bombardments of the suburbs after failing to regain territory on the ground. [Al Jazeera]
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The Civil War in Syria
Posted on 26 September 2012.
The growing violence in Syria to topple the Bashar al-Assad regime has international spectators increasingly concerned over the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the state. Who exactly is fighting against the Bashar al-Assad regime, and for what are they fighting? Why does the international regime stand-back while so many Syrians are killed in some of the [...]
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Syrian Leader Assad Talks of the Opposition’s Imminent Defeat
Posted on 21 September 2012.
In comments made to Egyptian magazine Al-Ahram al-Araby, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad predicted defeat for Syria’s opposition’s groups but also said that the door to dialogue remained open. An air strike on a fuel station in al-Riqqa in northern Syria killed 54 people or more on Thursday as the fighting in the civilly torn nation [...]
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Has the Arab Spring Cemented A Russian-Chinese Global Alliance?
Posted on 24 November 2011.
Foreign Policy’s article “The Axis of No,” by Dmitri Trenin, argues that the events of the Arab Spring and the toppling of authoritarian regimes in the Middle East has contributed to a tightening of relations between the Chinese and Russians who have positioned themselves in opposition to United Nations’ backed maneuvers to aid the collapse [...]
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Russian Warships Moved to Mediterranean to Deny Area to Foreign Intervention Against al-Assad Regime.
Posted on 19 November 2011.
Syria’s unrest continues and now Russia has involved itself in the preservation of the al-Assad regime by announcing it is moving warships into Syrian territorial waters to prevent any intervention in Syria’s domestic situation by foreign powers like NATO or Turkey. During the overthrow of Qaddafi, NATO warships and planes provided great assistance to the [...]
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The Rise of Qatar: How a Tiny Emirate in the Middle East is Turning the Arab Spring to Its Advantage.
Posted on 16 November 2011.
Qatar is probably best known in the west as the home of media outlet Al Jazeera and perhaps secondly as a less grand, Dubai-esque sheikdom in the Middle East. Recent events in the Middle East such as the uprising against Bashar al-Assad in Syria, the fall of Qaddafi in Libya and the toppling of Mubarak [...]
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Violence Against Bashar al-Assad’s Regime Intensifies in Syria.
Posted on 15 November 2011.
According to Al Jazeera at least 70 people have been killed in the “bloodiest day” in the uprising against Bashar al-Assad’s government, many of the victims in the province of Deraa. Syrian Security Forces are responsible for the majority of the killings according to human rights groups in Syria. Regional condemnation of Assad’s regime continues, [...]
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