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| March 31 |
| U.S.-Syria: Neo-Cons Target Assad Regime |
| Analysis: Uprisings in Syria |
| Nicholas Blanford: Stunned by Assad's defiant speech,
Syrians call for more protests |
| Assad speech could unleash immense violence Friday |
| Israel, long critical of Assad, may prefer he stay after
all |
| Bassel Oudat: Can Bashar pull it off? |
| Egypt: Mubarak's wealth yet again |
| Abdul Rahman Al-Rashid: Syria versus Syria |
| Beneath veneer of true love for Qaddafi, rebellion
simmers in Tripoli |
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| March 30 |
| Analysis: Canadian Support for the Libya Intervention |
| Analysish: Japan's Debt and Reconstruction |
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| March 29 |
| Patrick Seale: The Syrian Time Bomb |
| Patrick Seale: The Regional Implications of Syria's
Crisis |
| Nicholas Blanford: What is at stake if Syria's regime
falls |
| Can Bashar al-Assad’s wife prevent further
bloodshed in Syria? |
| Analysis: Obama doesn't mention Libyan rebels |
| Salman Masalha: President Assad is the favorite |
| Roger Cohen: Arabs Will Be Free |
| Egypt: Revolution, constitution and the future |
| Around the Arab World in four uprisings |
| Robert Skidelsky: The new imperialism |
| Time running out for Assad’s reformer image |
| Syria: The sectarian genie is out of the bottle |
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| March 28 |
| Syria: Reform or force? |
| Dominic Waghorn: Where is Assad? |
| Iran: The Dead Don't Protest |
| Feature: Saudi Arabia treads cautiously in time of
upheaval |
| Containing Gaddafi looks simple compared with
challenges posed by Syria and Yemen |
| Akiva Eldar: Arab peace initiative is another missed
opportunity for Israel |
| Factfile: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad |
| Mishaal Al Gergawi: Syria's fork of a future |
| Leading article: The next domino could be Damascus |
| Syrian army cracks down on protesters as government
delays concessions |
| Global Insight: Syrians see through ruling family’s
rhetoric |
| Natural Flow of History: Hamas Should Rethink Charter |
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| March 27 |
| Analysis: Unrest in Syria and Jordan poses new test for
U.S. |
| Analysis: Assad must contain Sunni unrest before it
infects army |
| Robert Kaplan: The Middle East Crisis Has Just Begun |
| Thomas Friedman: Hoping for Arab Mandelas |
| Ahed Al Hendi: Syrians Cry 'Freedom!' Too |
| Patrick Cockburn: Every tyrant makes the same mistake
in the Arab uprisings |
| Simon Montefiore: Every revolution is revolutionary in
its own way |
| Veteran diplomat assesses Arab uprisings, U.S. response |
| Syria protests continue amid increased international
condemnation of regime |
| In Syria, Tension and Grief After Protests and Official
Retaliation |
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| March 26 |
| Qaddafi unites Arabs against him in bid to oust
‘mad dog’ |
| Elliott Abrams: Ridding Syria of a despot |
| Analysis: US wary of Syrian involvement |
| Caution: Middle East under construction |
| Reporting Syria: 1984 and Tass All Over Again |
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| March 25 |
| Ground shifts as new Middle East order takes shape |
| Syria's Assad facing rare challenge to regime |
| Andrew Tabler: Syria protests call for strong U.S.
stance |
| Syria: Next on the list? |
| Matthew Levitt: Yemeni military leader tied to terrorism
pledges to protect protesters |
| Syed Neaz Ahmad: The shape of things to come! |
| Beyond a No-Fly Zone: How to Protect Civilians in Libya |
| Don Duncan: Unrest in Jordan |
| Muqtedar Khan: In defense of Intervention in Libya |
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| March 24 |
| Michael Young: Can the Assad regime hold off another
Arab uprising? |
| Security Weekly: Libya's Terrorism Option |
| Syria: Regime change could mean the extinction of
Christ's language |
| Analysis: Implications of the attacks in Israel |
| In turbulent Syrian town, discontent rages |
| Israel: West should treat Syria, Iran like Libya - Interview |
| Above the Tearline: Libyan Diplomatic Missions as
Terror Hubs |
| Patrick Martin: Syria moves to crush growing protests |
| Qaddafi: Survival is not an Option |
| Middle East: Freedom hopes fade amid bloody crackdowns |
| Ari Shavit: Israel can say farewell to peace |
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| March 23 |
| Jeffrey White: Operation Odyssey Dawn and the course of
the Libyan war |
| Syria's revolt: How graffiti stirred an uprising |
| Maher Arar: Daraa protests are the spark Syria needed |
| Con Coughlin: Now let's have a no-fly zone for Syria
and Yemen |
| Obama Seeks to Unify Allies as Qaddafi Vows Resistance |
| Yemen's leader battens down the hatches |
| Policy Watch: Implementing Obama's Message supporting Iranian human
rights |
| David Ignatius: Gates underlines the dangers in the Middle East |
| Analysts see uncertainty in Syria's unrest |
| Syria: Quest for democratic reform |
| Ammar Abdulhamid: Syrians have broken the fear barrier |
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| March 22 |
| Geopolitical Weekly: Libya, the West and the Narrative
of Democracy |
| Josef Olmert: Bashar Assad -- It is Coming |
| The Shaky House of Assad |
| Robert Fisk: Right across the Arab world, freedom is
now a prospect |
| Syria: Caught between pursuing reform and using violence
to crush protests |
| Faisal al Yafai: Reason to be sceptical about a new dawn
in Syria |
| Analysis: The Yemeni Crisis and Saudi Interests |
| Mkhaimar Abusada: Middle East security from a
Palestinian perspective |
| Palestininas: Inching closer to unity |
| Amor Boubakri: Arab Peace Initiative and the regional
security deal |
| Shlomo Brom: The Arab Peace Initiative promise of
security is insufficient |
| Efraim Inbar: The Arab world cannot deliver |
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| March 21 |
| Yemen in Crisis: A Special Report |
| Nicholas Blanford: Syria protests escalate, but could revolt really
take root? |
| Syria moves to suppress spreading protests |
| Libya: Identifying the Opposition |
| Libya: Uprising revives entrenched racism towards black
Africans |
| Israel deploys a miniature missile defence system |
| Analysis: Target in Libya is clear; intent is not |
| Israel deploys a miniature missile defence system |
| Analysis: Target in Libya is clear; intent is not |
| Amir Oren: Why Iran isn't Libya |
| Zvi Bar'el: Libya is a comfortable target for the west |
| Are Hamas hardliners trying to derail Hamas-Fatah unity
talks? |
| How Egypt's historic referendum could now bolster
Islamists |
| At war in Libya: How long will it last? Will Qaddafi be
gone? |
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| March 20 |
| George Friedman: The Libyan War of 2011 |
| Arab Spring: Is a Revolution Starting Up in Syria? |
| Analysis: War could stifle Gaddafi swiftly, but not
risk-free |
| The Proxy Battle in Bahrain |
| Seumas Milne: The fate of the Arabs will be settled in
Egypt, not Libya |
| Faisal Al Qasim: Arab revolutions go beyond internet
activism |
| Libya: How a no-fly zone can become a red hot mess |
| Egypt's historic referendum: Rushed but moving |
| Max Boot: Qaddafi Must Go |
| Ekramur Rashid: Arab world on the threshold of change |
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| March 19 |
| Simon Henderson: Bahrain's Kleptocracy in the Crosshairs |
| Cultural values, not dictators like Libya's Qaddafi, are chief
obstacle to Arab progress |
| Peace now for Palestine - Marwan Muasher and Javier Solana |
| Benjamin Sovacool: The dirt on nuclear power |
| Taking the 'war' out of air war: What US air power
actually does |
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| March 18 |
| Dispatch: Gadhafi's Forces Gain Momentum |
| Arab uprisings cast harsh light on U.S. intelligence
ties |
| Analysis: Interests of Saudi Arabia and Iran collide,
with the U.S. in the Middle |
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| March 17 |
| Security Weekly: Taming Chaos with a Personal Plan |
| David Ignatius: High stakes over Bahrain |
| Nicholas Kristof: Bahrain Pulls a Qaddafi |
| Ali Abdullatif Ahmida: Why Qaddafi Has Already Lost |
| The Obama Doctrine: A Modesty of Ambitions |
| Louis René Beres: The Threat to Israel From the 'New'
Middle East |
| Q+A: How would a no-fly zone work over Libya? |
| No-Fly Zones: Hidden Complexities |
| Zalmay Khalilzad: A regional strategy for democracy in
the Middle East |
| Janet Daley: What does Obama want to do? He wants to be
re-elected |
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| March 16 |
| Geopolitical Weekly: Japan, the Persian Gulf and Energy |
| Bahrain's Crisis: Saudi Forces Intervene |
| Analysis: Japan's Multiple Crises |
| Policy Alert: Syria's Turn |
| Why Gaddafi Has Survived Libya's Rebellion |
| No More Protests? Egypt's Army Cracks Down |
| Sending Troops into Bahrain, Saudi Arabia Breaks New
Ground |
| Zvi Bar'el: Syria gains stability as upheaval threatens
its Middle East neighbors |
| Nicolas Pelham: Libya in the Balance |
| Why has Bahrain decided to call in the troops? |
| Jeremy Warner: Japanese tsunami threatens worldwide
energy crisis |
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| March 15 |
| Red Alert: Radiation Rising and Heading South in Japan |
| Patrick Seale: Europe Must Regain the Diplomatic
initiative |
| Alon Ben-Meir: The Arab Uprising |
| Rebel council seeks to transform Libya |
| Henry Porter: The west can't just dictate democracy to
the Arab world |
| Outlook for democracy dims across much of the Middle
East |
| Marwan Muasher: Arab myths and realities |
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| March 14 |
| Special Report: Iran and the Saudis' Countermove on
Bahrain |
| Why Syria is unlikely to be next . . . for now |
| Rami Khouri: Intervention in Libya |
| John Kerry: The moral imperative of a no-fly zone |
| Libya: Force triumphs over conscientious uprising |
| Walker's World: Not normal times |
| Japan begins to dig for dead amid nuclear crisis |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Abusing reform |
| From WikiLeaks to Irangate: The art of shredding
documents |
| The Muslim Brotherhood: Between myth and reality |
| Diana Mukkaled: What role is the US media playing? |
| Second explosion at stricken Japan nuclear plant |
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| March 13 |
| Japan quake-tsunami death toll likely over 10,000 |
| Japan races to avert multiple nuclear meltdowns |
| Experts fear 'Chernobyl-like' crisis for Japan |
| Japan earthquake shifted Earth on its axis |
| Millions without food, water, power in Japan |
| In Japan plant, partial meltdown 'highly possible' |
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| March 12 |
| Red Alert: Nuclear Meltdown at Quake-Damaged Japanese
Plant |
| US training quietly nurtured young Arab democrats |
| Soner Cagaptay: Turkey's Anti-European Rhetoric
Challenges U.S. Policy |
| Jeffrey White: Options for Military Intervention in
Libya |
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| March 11 |
| Pentagon places its bet on a general in Egypt |
| Five myths about Moammar Gaddafi |
| After the Egyptian revolution: The wars of religion |
| Hundreds killed in tsunami after 8.9 Japan quake |
| Wangari Maathai: Winds of change in sub-Saharan Africa |
| Norman. Cantor: The hazards of 'unripe' democracy |
| Obama accepts prospect of nuclear-armed Iran |
| John F. Kerry: A no-fly zone for Libya |
| Michael Gerson: Taliban is losing its advantage in
Afghanistan |
| Stephen Rademaker: Obama's missteps on Libya cement
Gaddafi's advantage |
| Red Alert: Saudi Police Fire On Protesters In Oil Hub |
| Analysis: French Support For Intervention in Libya |
| Tunesia: Righting the Wrongs of the Ben Ali Regime |
| Profile: Libya's provisional rebel government leader
Mustafa Abdel Jalil |
| After short hiatus, sectarian strife returns to Egypt |
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| March 10 |
| Zero Hour in the Middle East: Lessons For What Comes
Next |
| Did Mubarak's Secret Service Order Terror Attacks? |
| Egyptians Take On 'Mini-Mubaraks' |
| On Egypt: What Should America Do Now? |
| Scott Stewart: Will Libya Again Become the Arsenal of
Terrorism? |
| Caliphate, Jihad, Sharia: Now What? |
| Robert Dreyfuss: Is Maliki Iraq’s Mubarak? |
| James Zogby: Islamophobia Can Create Radicalization |
| Philippe Rivière: The Iran Stuxnet Affair |
| Ghassan Rubeiz: Can the Arab Awakening Bring Peace to
the Middle East? |
| Safa Hussein: Winds of Change in Iraq |
| James Carroll: The End of the Nightmare Arab |
| Ghassan Khatib: Sharing the search for freedom |
| Shlomo Avineri: In an ideal world |
| Yossi Alpher: Weak leaders responding poorly |
| Bouthaina Shaaban: Windmills which can only be moved
by the winds of change |
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| March 9 |
| George Friedman: How a Libyan No-fly Zone Could
Backfire |
| Analysis: A Cleric's Removal and Iran's Growing
Confidence |
| Simon Tisdall: Soft power is the best way for the west
to intervene in Libya |
| Arabs turn tables on hated secret police |
| Arnaud de Borchgrave: BI (or Before Internet) |
| Con Coughlin: A Libyan no-fly zone is no different to
invading Iraq |
| Bolton: Obama Sleeps While the Middle East Burns... |
| Leslie Geib: When people lose and oil wins |
| José Ramos-Hortam: Reflections on a Visit to Israel and
Palestine |
| The Great Arab Mutation: A Front Seat to History |
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| March 8 |
| George Friedman: Bahrain and the Battle Between Iran and Saudi Arabia |
| In Saudi Arabia, activists push more boldly for reform |
| Analysis: Saudi Arabia focusing on potential domestic
unrest |
| Anne Applebaum: The Arab world isn't clamoring for our
help |
| Lee Smith: The Stakes in Libya |
| David Makovsky: Reviewing Egypt's gains from its peace
treaty with Israel |
| Aner Shalev: The new Mideast no longer revolves around
Israel |
| Why Egypt has to be the U.S. priority in the Middle East |
| Roula Khalaf: Painful price of forging a democratic era |
| Hussein Shoboksh: Gaddafi on a trip |
| Libya: Obama Inches Closer to Military Intervention |
| Syria's Assad outlasts threats of regime change,
isolation |
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| March 7 |
| The Youth of Syria: The Rebels Are on Pause |
| A Libyan Leader at War With Rebels, and Reality |
| Rami Khouri: The Substance of the Arab Revolt |
| Rashid Khalidi: The Arab Spring |
| Walker's World: Gadhafi fights back |
| Feature: In Mideast revolts, women emerge as driving
force |
| Alain Gresh: Neither with the West, Nor Against It |
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| March 6 |
| Vengence from the skies: Libyan Air Force could be
Gadhafi's trump card |
| Gates on urgent mission to Cairo as military rulers
lose grip |
| Abdullah Al Shayji: New Middle East in the making |
| Amir Taheri: The Ayatollah and Machiavelli |
| Caroline Glick: The New Middle East |
| Daviv Rosenberg: Whose new Middle East? |
| Tariq Alhomayed : Between Hillary and the Supreme
Guide |
| Osman Mirghani: The Big Test for Egypt's Muslim
Brotherhood |
| Adel Al Toraifi: Do the revolutionary youth know the
meaning of a regional power balance? |
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| March 5 |
| Policy Alert: How to Deal with Islamist Movements in
Post-Revolutionary Regimes? |
| David Ignatius: US policy shift seen in Obama reaction
to Arab upheavals |
| An upside of Arab revolts: Islamists talk democracy |
| Michael Singh: The Consequences of Inaction in Libya |
| Michael Knights: The Strategic Geography of the Libyan
Civil War |
| Bernard Haykel: The decade ahead |
| Yossi Beilin: Obama does not know what to do in the
Middle East |
| Joshua Muravchik: Time for Obama to make himself heard |
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| March 4 |
| Chris Toensing: Seeking "stability" |
| Obama administration prepares for new post-revolt
Islamist regimes |
| Saudi Arabia’s leaders loosen grip, prompting
protest |
| Portfolio: Persian Gulf Oil |
| Charles Krauthammer: From Baghdad to Benghazi |
| The collapse of the old oil order: How the petroleum age
will end |
| Jean-Pierre Lehmann: The Mediterranean mayhem |
| Dalia Dassa Kaye: Iran might not be the big winner of
Mideast uprisings |
| Roger Cohen: Go to Jerusalem |
| Why the Pope's rejection of Jewish guilt really matters |
| In the West Bank: A Visit with a Soon-to-Be
Ex-Negotiator |
| Was the Frankfurt Airport Shooter a "Lone
Wolf" Jihadist? |
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| March 3 |
| A Tale of Two Cities: Inside Gaddafi's Tripoli |
| Arab upheaval: Would Syria be next? |
| Fighting in Libya: The Military Balance |
| Tehran's hands-off threat to Riyadh incites Saudi
Shiites to revolt |
| Libya refugee crisis called a ‘logistical
nightmare' |
| Simon Henderson: New Evidence of Iran's Nuclear Ambitions
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| Daniel Serwer: Behind Iraq's protests, a call for better
democracy |
| Nicholas Kristof: Here’s What We Can Do to Tackle
Libya |
| Analysis: Gadhafi's Influence in Africa |
| Peter Singer: Global Justice and Military Intervention |
| Michael Young: Is Pax Americana nearing an end? |
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| March 2 |
| Saudi Arabia: An Arrest That Could Lead to Unrest |
| Analysis: The Complexity of Persian Gulf Unrest |
| Understanding Today’s Middle East: Dictators v.
Despots |
| In 'Free Libya': Who, exactly, is in charge? |
| George Friedman: Never Fight a Land War in Asia |
| Feature: 'It's cool to be Arab again' |
| Saad Khan: Wake Up Syrians, it's Party Time! |
| Faisal Al Qasim: It's people power that counts |
| Anne Applebaum: Westerners, be careful the company you
keep |
| Egypt's Revolution and Israeli Interests: A Strategic
Assessment |
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| March 1 |
| Will Ahmadinejad be the next to fall? |
| Oman's Days of Rage |
| Arab revolutions teach lesson in realpolitik |
| Walker's World: Arab spring turns chill |
| The 'Israel First' Myth |
