Added on 12/02/2012
David Roberts
Aleppo , Arab League , Army , Assad , Bashar al-Assad , China , Energy , Free Syrian Army , Golan Heights , Hafez Al Assad , Hama , Hizballah , Iran , Jordan , Lebanon , Libya , Mediterranean Sea , Oil , President , Qatar , Quds Force , Russia , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Syrian army , Tehran , Turkey , United Nations , United Nations Security Council
DAVID ROBERTS: Working out exactly what must be done is fiendishly difficult; anyone who says they have a solution is grossly underestimating the complexities.
Added on 09/02/2012
M.-Lynx-Qualey
blindness , China , Damascus , Facebook , Food and Drink , Homs , Iran , Khaled Khalifa , Russia , Syria
M. LYNX-QUALEY: An impassioned open letter from one of Syria’s leading authors calls on Russia, China and Iran to stop supporting ‘genocide’.
Added on 03/02/2012
Michael J. Totten
Arab Spring , Egypt , Egypt Protests , Libya , Syria , Tunisia
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Syria have undergone enormous turmoil in the past year. But can we see a path for each country’s immediate future?
Added on 23/01/2012
Common Ground News Service
Artist , Baghdad , Christians , Deir Mar Musa , Iraq , Islam , Islamic party , Paolo Dall’Oglio , southern Syria , Syria , Syrian Desert , Umayyed Mosque
STEPHANIE SALDANA, CGNEWS: There is a very real possibility that the Christians in Syria will leave as conflict escalates. What will be the consequences?
Added on 12/01/2012
Syria News Wire
AFP , Arab League , Asma al-Assad , Assad , Damascus , Foreign Policy , France , Homs , international official , Journalist , London , Middle East , Nicolas Sarkozy , President , Syria , Syrian government , United Kingdom , William Hague
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: The Arab League mission is close to collapse;physically attacked on the streets, verbally attacked by Assad. And the killing continues.
Added on 05/01/2012
Syria News Wire
America , Ammar Abdulhamid , Amnesty , Bush , Christopher Hitchens , Iraq , Journalism , Journalist , London , Nick Cohen , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Syria , Syrian National Council , United Kingdom , United States , Washington
NEWS FROM SYRIA: Christopher Hitchens famously did it with Iraq and now his friend Nick Cohen is doing the same on Syria – advocating for war.
Added on 02/01/2012
Michael J. Totten
Assad , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Democracy , Dwight Eisenhower , Hafez Al Assad , Hama , Idlib , Israel , Syria
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Cool calculation lies behind Syria’s targetting of protesters. Too many dead and calls for foreign intervention grow.
Added on 29/12/2011
Syria News Wire
Al Jazeera , Ammar Abdulhamid , Assad , Bahrain , Damascus , Democracy , Human Rights Watch , Saudi Arabia , Social Media , Syria , Syrian National Council , Syrian Observatory , The Guardian , The New York Times
NEWS FROM SYRIA: The former Chairman of the Syria Computer Society, a certain Bashar Assad, had a lot of support from the blogosphere in his first decade. Not any more.
Added on 22/12/2011
Syria News Wire
Army , Bahrain , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Democracy , Egypt , Electronic Frontier Foundation , European Union , Facebook , Internet cafés , Internet users , Jillian York , Journalist , Mainstream media , Mobile Phones , President , satellite dishes , Singer , Skype , Social Media , Spy , Syria , Syrian Computer Society , Syrian government , Twitter , United States , Yahoo! , YouTube
NEWS FROM SYRIA: At first the authorities in Syria were caught unawares at how ‘new technology’ was used against them. But they caught on quickly.
Added on 14/12/2011
Common Ground News Service
Amr Abdallah Dalsh , Common Ground News Service , Dubai , Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , Libya , Syria , Tunisia , Yemen
NASSER AL SARAMI, CG NEWS: There is a relationship between the region’s new electoral experiments and the need to establish the rule of law.
Added on 12/12/2011
Mich Cafe
Catholic Church , Christianity , Christmas , Damascus , Deir Mar Musa , Lebanon , Life , Mediterranean , Middle East , Paolo Dall’Oglio , Protests , Red Crescent , Red Cross , Rome , Syria , Syrian Desert , Syrian government
MICH CAFE: A fortnight ago, Fr. Paolo posted a Christmas message on the monastery’s web site. The message did not go down well in Damascus.
Added on 06/12/2011
Syria News Wire
Damascus , Democracy , Gaza , Lebanon , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Syria
SYRIA NEWS WIRE: The Syrian authorities’ patience with one of their most consistent and trenchant critics has snapped with Razan Ghazzawi’s arrest.
Added on 28/11/2011
Ismail Salami
Aleppo , Arab League , Bahrain , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Hamad bin Jassem al-Thani , Iran , Israel , Latakia , Libya , President , Prime Minister , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Tartous , United States , Washington
ISMSAIL SALAMI: It’s time we made a choice. Either remain ignorant, or we need to open our eyes to the reality of things as they actually are.
Added on 27/11/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Ahmet Davutoglu , Aleppo , Ankara , Bashar al-Assad , Damascus , Foreign Policy , France , Free Syrian Army , Iran , Israel , Istanbul , Lebanon , Libya , Mediterranean , Muslim Brotherhood , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Prime Minister , Recep Tayyip Erdogan , Syria , Syrian government , Syrian National Council , The Financial Times , the Palestine Chronicle , Turkey
RAMZY AL BAROUD: However, the Syrian uprising in March leading the country down the road to civil war – has forced Turkey to abandon its ‘zero-problems’ foreign policy.
Added on 17/11/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Al Qaeda , Aleppo , Arab League , Army , Bashar al-Assad , Ba’ath Party , China , Damascus , Egypt , Energy , Europe , Hama , Hilary Clinton , Homs , Idlib , Libya , Libyan army , Media outlets , New York Times , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , President , Russia , Secretary of State , Security Council , Sergei Lavrov , Syria , Syrian government , Syrian military , Syrian National Council , The Times , The Washington Post , Tunisia , United Nations , United Nations Security Council , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: The lines are thus drawn, between US-led Western camp and Russia and its own camp, which vehemently rejects a repeat of a Libyan scenario.
Added on 16/11/2011
James Mullan
Abdullah , Arab League , Assad , Damascus , Jordan , Morocco , President , Qatar , Rabat , Saudi Arabia , Syria , Turki al-Faisal , United States
It’s crunch time for Syria at the Arab League and they’ve decided not to turn up to the Moroccan get-together. Hardly a major surprise.
Added on 13/11/2011
James M. Dorsey
Arab League , Bashar al-Assad , Elias Khoury , Hafez Al Assad , London , Mosab Balhous , national soccer goalkeeper , Soccer , Syria , UN Security Council , United Nations , YouTube
JAMES M. DORSEY: A promising young footballer has emerged as the voice of protest in the Syrian city of Homs. He has become a key target for the regime’s security forces.
Added on 10/11/2011
James M. Dorsey
2014 World Cup , Arab League , Asian Football Confederation , Assad , Bashar al-Assad , Brazil , FIFA , Football , Homs , Lebanon , Mosab Balhous , national soccer goalkeeper , President , Soccer , Syria , Syrian military , Tajikistan , United Arab Emirates , YouTube
JAMES M. DORSEY: ‘Bread and circuses’ are what the Roman emperors offered the people. ‘Bullets and soccer’ are what the Syrian regime appear to be offering today.
Added on 25/10/2011
James Mullan
Damascus , Robert Ford , Starbucks , Syria , United States , US State Department , Washington DC
NEWS ANALYSIS: The US Ambassador to Syria has made quite a name for himself during his stint in Damascus. But he’s also ruffled many governmental feathers.
Added on 25/10/2011
Rania Al Malky
Al Adha , Al Rai , Al-Wafd party , Arabian Peninsula , Army , Bashar al-Assad , BBC , CNN , Damascus , Egypt , Eid Al-Adha , Iraq , Journalist , Libya , Media freedom , Mubarak , National Transitional Council , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , political exclusion law , Saddam Hussein , Syria , Tunisia , United States , Yemen
RANIA AL MALKY: Is it logical that the ousted Mubarak, responsible for the disintegration of Egypt’s institutions is now living in a five-star hospital suite…
