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November 30
Rob Sobhani: Israel's Worsening Security Dilemma
Iran spooked by U.S., Israeli covert operations
Syria: Military Intervention A La Carte
Wael Ghonim: In Bleak Cairo, a Call for Optimism
Tariq Alhomayed: Rise of the Muslim Brotherhood
Syria: The sanctions will neither deter nor overthrow the regime
Tantawi: caught between the youth and the ‘Brotherhood’
Ali Ibrahim: Elections in Egypt: What a turnout!
Dispatch: Elections in Post-Mubarak Egypt
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November 29
NATO-Gulf military officers in Turkey prepare for intervention in Syria - report
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November 28
Arabs gang up against Assad, pave way for foreign intervention
Factbox - Sanctions imposed on Syria
Egypt's tense waiting game: What's at stake in the elections
Egypt elections: Battle of 'eye' versus 'scales of justice'
Egypt's complex electoral system
Egypt’s turmoil: Who will benefit from the chaos?
Egypt vote is on, despite deadly protests. How will the Muslim Brotherhood do?
Tony Badran: Russia draws red line around Syria
Syria hit with new sanctions: Will this weaken Assad?
CIA arrests in Iran? Allegations point to smoldering covert war with US
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November 27
Anthony Shadid: The Hatred, and Hope for Arab Christians
Syria Dispatch : Inside the Battle for Homs
Analysis: Arab World Struggles to Shape New Order
Feature: Life getting hard in Syria
Egypt: Military should step aside
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November 26
Arms smugglers thrive on Syrian uprising
Spy game revs up with Arab Spring
Robert Fisk: Exile dreams of a bloodless return after a life spent opposing Assad regime
Israel, Jordan on alert over threatened Syrian revenge for 6 pilots' deaths
Feature: Hope builds for refugees as world turns on Assad
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November 24
Muslim Brotherhood struggles to find its balance in Egypt’s whirlwind
Analysis: Arab League breaks habit, turns on Syria
On Cairo's violent streets, an untenable status quo meets an unwritten future
Egypt's Revolution Continues - David Schenker and Eric Trager
Syria after Assad: Averting the deluge
David Makovsky: Israel's Closing Window to Strike Iran
Rami Khouri: Guns cannot forever be used to rule Arab societies
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November 23
Unholy alliance: Egypt's military & the Muslim Brotherhood
George Friedman: Syria, Iran and the Balance of Power in the Middle East
Anthony Shadid: The Old Order Stifles the Birth of a New Egypt
J. Dana Stuste: Syria and Other Wars Without End
Harlan Ullman: Arab Spring is a contradiction in terms
Sarah Schulman: Israel and ‘Pinkwashing’
Egypt: the delayed conflict
Hamad Al-Majid : Sons of Arab tyrants
Amal Al-Hazzani: The Syrian blood guardians
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November 22
Analysis: Syria's standing in the Shiite crescent
Analysis: How Assad's fall could overturn the Middle East chessboard
Dispatch: Egyptian Elections in Doubt as Violence Returns to Tahrir
Egypt: Army fails to grasp the post-Mubarak realities
Syria: Warfare Ushers in Transition
Thomas Nides: A new chapter in Iraq
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November 21
New phase for Syria in attacks on capital
Michael Young: Speechless in Bashar Assad’s Syria
Egypt: Dangerous run-up to elections is a necessary risk
Will Egypt's Arab Spring Turn Into an Arab Nightmare?
Syria: technocrats at the crossroads
Syria: unprecedented isolation
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November 20
The tide turns against Bashar Assad
Sectarian strife in city bodes ill for all of Syria
Turkey's Syrian Ambit: New War in the Making
Profile: Seif al-Islam Gadhafi was former heir apparent
Rami Khouri: Warfare in Syria ushers in a transition
The Arab League: Prelude to a US-NATO-led military campaign against Syria
Syria: Mounting defections need foreign help to be effective
Iran -- Not necessarily a nuclear apocalypse
Maidhc O Cathail: Israel’s long road to Damascus
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November 19
Can Syria's president survive?
Why Syria's revolution needs a Benghazi
In Egypt’s New Democracy, Copts Feel Sidelined
Robert Fisk: The Arab Spring has given Turkey a voice. Don't mess with it
Europeans 'must lead in struggle with Syria'
Israel’s Secret Iran Attack Plan: Electronic Warfare
Syrian rebels warn they can strike 'anywhere and anytime'
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November 18
Syria a sinking ship
Sanctioning Syria: The Long Road to Damascus
Sinan Ulgen: Turkey’s zero-sum problems
Tariq Alhomayed: The year of drafting constitutions
Adel Al Toraifi: The Political Wisdom of Bashar al-Assad
Feature: Free Syrian Army grows in influence
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November 17
Dispatch: Turkey and the Free Syrian Army
Europe's Crisis: Beyond Finance
Tariq Alhomayed : Iran and the post-Assad phase
West Bank: Christian community divided by yet-to-be built fence
Ali Ibrahim: Will Egypt defeat the pessimism?
Syria: Averting a Libyan scenario
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November 16
Dispatch: Inside Syria's Economic Implosion
Syria uprising fast turning into civil war
Robert Fisk: Assad will only go if his own tanks turn against him
Will Syria listen to anyone as crisis grows?
Dotting the i's after Iran missile blast
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November 15
Syria’s economic woes threaten support for regime
Qatar wields an outsize influence in Arab politics
Dispatch: Countering Iran in the Covert World
For refugees from Syria, a visit with no expiration date
Was Mossad behind the blast that killed Iran's top missile expert?
Death toll mounts in Syria, along with outside pressure
Pat Buchanan: Return of the War Party?
Arnaud De Borchgrave: Black swans attack
Martin Walker: The euro Titanic
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November 14
Politics stokes fears over Iran nuclear plans
Mystery surrounds deadly blast at Iran ammunition depot
Alastair Crooke: Is Syria the new Libya?
Robert Fisk: Arab League's 'roar' at Syria shows how tiny Qatar is starting to flex its muscle
Syria and the Arab League: Ever fewer friends
Analysis: Arab moves isolate Assad, West intervention unlikely
Syria: the countdown has begun
Huda al Husseini: Al-Qaeda returns to Egypt under Iranian cover
I hate Israel, but I also hate Nabil Elaraby
Tony Blair: Protection of religious freedom should be a priority for all democracies
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November 13
Report says Syrian crackdown amounts to crimes against humanity
The Arab League Gets Tough on Syria
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November 12
U.S. Plans Bomb Sales in Gulf to Counter Iran
Unrest in Syria divides a region as a border never did
Analysis: Arab League in dilemma over Syria
Iran: Learning to whistle and walk away
Syria and Iran: Which Will Save the Other?
Jihad Al Khazen: The Fall of the Empire
Hussein Shobokshi : When Bashar al-Assad "blinked" first
Jeffrey Kuhner: Radical Islam in the heart of Europe
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November 11
Hamas support on the wane amid crackdowns on political dissent
Letter to Netanyahu: time is no longer on Israel’s side
If Iran Gets the Bomb
Arab Christians, minorities, reshaping US enclaves
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November 10
Dispatch: Sunni-Shiite Competition in Post-American Iraq
Iran’s leaders, defiant abroad, struggle at home
Q+A: What is the outside world doing about Syria?
Joseph Kechichian: The Damascus conundrum
Ali Ibrahim: When will the “Ship-Jumping” phase begin in Syria?
Tariq Alhomayed: Where does Iran’s power lie?
Saad Khan: Assad Has to Go!
Majid Rafizadeh: Iran, The US, and Saudi Arabia
The Arab Spring: A New Era in a Transforming Globe
Syrian Soldiers Joining Armed Resistance
Mamoun Fandy; The Future of Tyranny!
Syria and the Arab League
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November 9
Interview with Syrian Grand Mufti: 'Assad Could Step Down After Free Elections'
Analysis: Syrian attack on rebel city mocks Arab peace plan
Syriac Catholic Patriarch Warns West of Sectarian Violence in Middle East
Kurt Werthmuller: No Arab Spring for Egypt's Coptic Christians
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November 8
Syria: Defiant Homs confronts the regime
Walid Phares: Iran's MAD strategy has a strategic rationale
Why Iran's top Leaders believe end of days has come
Arnaud de Borchgrave: Grapes of wrath
Assad's Move Against Facebook
Analysis: To Strike Iran or Not, With the US or Not
Q+A: U.N. report on Iran's nuclear program
Iran's Bomb: 90% Ready?
Analysis: Who Lost Iraq" Debate Fails to Get Traction
Roger Cohen: The Last Jew in Zagare
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November 7
Akiva Eldar: Obama must stop Netanyahu, Barak from attacking Iran
Yehezkel Dror: Here's how to decide whether to support an attack on Iran
Tariq Alhomayed: Why is it an initiative to save al-Assad?
Osman Mirghani: What is the solution to our fear of the Islamists?
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November 6
Analysis: A Rising Influence Among Arab Nations
Profile of new Saudi Defense Minister Prince Salman
Israel is unwise to raise the nuclear stakes
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November 5
Factbox: How Israel and Iran shape up militarily
Rami Khouri: Arab world’s hard work has just begun
Sadegh Zibakalam: Syria spoils the Iranian victory
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November 4
Special Report: UK and U.S. 'draw up joint plan to attack Iran'
Israel faces questions about news reports of eyeing Iran strike
Gareth Porter: Debunking the Iran "Terror Plot"
James Zogby: Syria is not Libya, yet
Rasha Saad: Tunisia's Islamist surprise
Will Egypt follow Tunisia?
Ramzi Baroud: Islamists on probation
Analysis: Obama Mideast policy adrift amid crises
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November 3
Missile test fuels talk of Israeli plan to strike Iran's nuclear sites
Turkey's rising clout leaves Iran fuming on sidelines of Arab Spring
Are Christians facing extinction on the Arab street?
Main points of the Arab League peace plan Syria agreed to
Analysis: Jordan's Warming Ties with Hamas
Will Israel Strike Iran? Speculation Fed by Looming Report on Iran’s Nuclear Activities
Robert Fisk: Al Jazeera - 15 years in the headlines
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November 2
Libya and Iraq: The Price of Success
Critical Analysis: Syria, the Arab Yugoslavia of Middle East
Syria: inside Hama, the city of fear and ghosts
Frank Crimi: The Syrian Impasse
Levitt: Iran's Growing Presence in Region a Menace
UN probes links between Syria and father of Pakistan's atomic bomb
NATO in Libya: Is Syria Next?
Jeffrey White: Implications of Military Intervention in Syria
Lee Smith: What Syria Policy?
Russia: Rebuilding an Empire While It Can
Tony Blankley: Chinese dragon flexes economic muscles
Arnaud De Borhgrave: New world order?
Feature: Iraqi Christians commemorate church massacre
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November 1
Interview: Syrian president's cousin pushes for democratic change
Factbox: Syrian opposition want protection, wary of intervention
Dimi Reider: In Israel, press freedom is under attack
Editorial: Assad’s lack of options

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