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President Obama announced a new round of humanitarian assistance, an additional $155 million to provide for the urgent and pressing needs of civilians in Syria and refugees forced to flee the violence of the Assad regime. This brings America’s contribution to date to $365 million, making the United States the largest single donor of humanitarian [...]
Medvedev: Assad made “grave error” over reforms, “It seems to me that his chances of staying are shrinking day by day” NOW Obama Seems to Believe Syria Intervention would Backfire Wash Post Blog on Obama’s statement on Syria on 60 minutes But in Syria, his administration wants to make sure U.S. action would not backfire, [...]
The Levant States seem to be coming unglued as the fighting in Fallujah pushes Iraq toward civil war. The Arab Spring may not be so much about democracy as reworking the states, borders, and national identities laid down by WWI colonial powers. The ungluing of state structures may eventually lead to democracy, but only after [...]
Economy: Syria’s farming sector now in “tatters,” the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) warned Wednesday. Analysts said the growing privations could hurt the rebels as much as, or more than, the government of President Bashar al-Assad. … Jihad Yazigi, editor of the Syria Report business newsletter, said the FAO report echoed other disturbing provisional [...]
I begin with letters from three Syria Comment readers: Reader 1 Dr. Landis, I have resisted writing to you for a long time. Proud to say that I was born in Aleppo. First thing I do every morning when I wake up is check on the situation of my family in Aleppo. And for the [...]
Syria: Is It Too Late? Frederic C. Hof | January 14, 2013 Syria is dying. Bashar al-Assad has made it clear that the price of his removal is the death of the nation. A growing extremist minority in the armed opposition has made it clear that a Syria of citizenship and civil society is, in [...]
Report says Assad residing on warship [This story has been dismissed as having “no basis” by the CIA] 2013-01-14 RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, Jan. 14 (UPI) — Syrian President Bashar Assad and his family have been living on a warship, with security provided by Russia, intelligence sources told a Saudi newspaper. … The circumstances reinforce Russian [...]
This is the saddest Friday demonstration video- town of Binnish. via Ben Hubbard Syrian foreign ministry in a letter to UN claims that more than 1000 factories have been dismantled in Aleppo and sold to Turkey by rebels and gunmen. I have asked an Aleppine factory owner if this is true. His answer: “I don’t [...]
Forming a Syrian Opposition Government: The Time is Now Frederic C. Hof| January 08, 2013 – At The Syrian Opposition Council (SOC) formed in November 2012 faces no shortage of dire challenges as it tries to organize itself and give desperately needed political leadership to a heterogeneous hodgepodge of armed and unarmed opponents of the [...]
Foreign Policy Syria mixed chemicals at two storage sites at the end of November 2012 and filled dozens of bombs, likely with sarin nerve gas, and loaded them onto vehicles near air bases according to anonymous U.S. military, intelligence, and diplomatic officials. A public warning by President Obama, and private messages from Russia, Iraq, Turkey, [...]
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