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Clerics in Egypt Call for Global Jihad Against Regime’s Shiite Allies by Matthew Barber The last post contained a question from a reader wondering why Egypt has been largely off-the-radar as an important regional presence in the Syrian conflict. With interesting timing, the last few days may have inaugurated the beginning of a change to [...]
by Aron Lund for Syria Comment David Ignatius has written an article in the Washington Post called “Sorting out the Syrian opposition”, where he provides names and manpower figures for the Syrian insurgency. He’s basing his argument on reports from a Syrian opposition group. I happen to know which one, but I haven’t seen the [...]
Posted by Matthew Barber Drones & Intervention We included a report in a previous post that the CIA is eyeing Syria for the use of drones. Now a report by Chuck Hagel and David Boren suggests that the drone program is aberrant and problematic for the CIA: U.S. intelligence too focused on killing suspected [...]
Women, the forgotten victims By Aida Dalati – December 28, 2012 Why haven’t you addressed the lack of Syrian women representatives in the future new Syria coalition ( not from the cliché Islamic point of view just intellectual because we women want to go forward after all we are full participants in this revolution) and [...]
Glenn Robinson, “Syria’s Long Civil War“, Current History, Dec. 2012 Here is an excerpt – (Read the whole thing – it is well written and argued) …..A BIGGER LEBANON Syria’s troubles go well beyond warring ethnic and confessional groups, to the fact that Syria as a political entity—as a nation—hardly exists. To be sure, the [...]
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