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Syrian-Iranian-Hezbollah meeting new front against USA, Israel BBC MidEast: 2010-02-27 tanslation of “‘Council of War’ in Damascus” by Chief Editor Abd-al-Bari Atwan, Al-Quds al- Arabi 27 February Article The tripartite meeting held in Damascus the day before yesterday between Syrian President Bashar al-Asad and his Iranian guest President Mahmud Ahmadinezhad in addition to “Hezbollah” leader [...]
President Bashar al-Assad and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who was in Damascus today, threw down the gauntlet. Only the day before Hilary Clinton warned Syria “to begin to move away from the relationship with Iran,” and stop supporting Hizbullah, Hamas, and ex-Baathists in Iraq. For several years, Syria has been told to “flip” and break from Iran [...]
Big things are going on in Turkey, where government has detained 49 top military officers and formally arrested 12. It accuses them of plotting a 2003 coup called “Sledgehammer,” which was to be proceeded by explosions at several mosques to create chaos and a pretext for overthrowing the Erdogan government and the AK Party. The [...]
Elie Elhadj posted the following article to the comment section of SC. I have created a post for it as it raises an important and certainly controversial question that has been getting increasing attention since President Bush decided that the US should bring democracy to Iraq. At the heart of Bush’s argument was the contention [...]
Austrian Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger: Hopeful that Peace Talks will Resume and Syria and the EU Will Sign the Association Agreement by July By Ibrahim HAMIDI of Al-Hayat in Damascus Exclusive for Syria Comment The Austrian Minister for Foreign Affairs Michael Spindelegger hopes that the indirect talks between Syria and Israel “will be resumed soon” [...]
Ibrahim Hamidi writes from Damascus about recent business activities that according to him, “are amazing.” A top businessman and banker in Syria also reports that the mood is “upbeat in Damascus.” Evidently people are standing by for important economic indicators during the March investor conference. Hamidi in al-Hayat covers the serge of businessmen visiting Damascus, [...]
Here are three new books about Syria that I can recommend wholeheartedly. I have corresponded with the authors for some time. The Road to Damascus: by Elaine Rippey Imady E.E. Whiting Talks to Elaine Rippey Imady about her life in Syria “…but we’ll only stay for a short while.” With these famous last words, Elaine [...]
There goes Andrew Tabler again. This time he claims that the present US engagement with Syria is part of a new grand US strategy to hurt Iran. It is going to roll it back. What? Can someone explain this to me? I must be missing something. Here is what Tabler argues: Andrew Tabler: The hand [...]
“US Economic Sanctions on Syria Have Failed,” by Joshua Landis Contrary to what Andrew Tabler of WINEP, a right-wing think tank argues, US sanctions on Syria have failed. Tabler, in a Newsweek article copied below, recommends keeping sanctions on Syria. He claims they are working. He is joined in his desire to keep sanctions on [...]
Obama has nominated diplomat Robert S. Ford to be the first U.S. ambassador to Syria since 2005. There were reports in the last few days that the nomination might not go through, but it has. Laura Rozen belives it was timed in part to add pressure on Iran to fall in line. Several friends have [...]
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