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February 2012 |
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| February
29 |
| Hamas signals break with Iran, but is that good for
Israel? |
| Ehud Yaari: The Agony of Hamas |
| Can Syria's Assad fight his way to political survival? |
| Syria’s sectarian fears keep region on edge |
| Syria's nonviolent activists face uphill battle for
democracy |
| Group describes harrowing rescue of British journalist
in Syria |
| Feature: Syrian capital is a city changed in a year |
| Thomas Friedman: There Be Dragons |
| Rami Khouri: Why Islamists will just keep winning |
| Davis Ignatius: Weapons won't bring democracy in Syria |
| Michael Wasco: Arab Spring and Constitutional Democracy |
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| February
28 |
| Why Syria's Christians are angry |
| Stratfor: More Divisions Among the Syrian Opposition |
| Analysis: Russia holding firm in Syria crisis |
| Profile: Yemen's new president, Abed Rabbo Mansour Hadi |
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| February
27 |
| Adar Primor: On Syria, the Russian bear's growling is one
of fear |
| Barry Rubin: Iran war hysteria surpasses all bounds of
sanity |
| Robert Fisk: The new Cold War has already started –
in Syria |
| Feature: Syrian themes of oppression draw the unwilling
into revolt |
| Ghassan Al Imam: The race between Americanization and
Islamization |
| Tariq Alhomayed: The positive aspects of the Friends of
Syria conference |
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| February
26 |
| David Sanger: Syria, Iran and the Obama Doctrine |
| Feature: Syrian uprising changes life in Turkish hamlet
that long thrived on smuggling |
| Brian Whitaker: Syrians should beware of some of their
foreign 'friends' |
| Michael Singh: Is the Iranian Regime Rational? |
| Editorial: We must heed all the forces at work in Syria |
| Shoot the journalists: Syria's lesson from the Arab
spring |
| Feature: Despair for Syrians as strife batters economy |
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| February
25 |
| Beyond the Fall of the Syrian Regime - Peter Harling , Sarah Birke |
| Analysis: Syria and Hamas - the end of a honeymoon |
| Why the world isn't intervening in Syria |
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| February
24 |
| After a year, deep divisions hobble Syria’s
opposition |
| Calls for Syrian Truce Mount |
| West confronts Syria’s treacherous mix |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter: How to halt the butchery in Syria |
| Andrew Engel: Libya's Floundering Transition |
| Michael Young: Washington’s Syria policy is
imaginary |
| David Ignatius: Getting Iran to back down on its nuclear
program |
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| February
23 |
| Analysis: Russia's New Chechnya Problem |
| Scott Stewart: The Myth of the End of Terrorism |
| Largely unnoticed, Maarat Numan, Syria, fends off a
regime |
| Who are Syria's Druze? |
| Syria: On the verge of civil war |
| Steven Heydemann: Managing militarization in Syria |
| Syria violence pushes diplomatic divide |
| Jonathan Spyer:
Inside Free Syria |
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| February
22 |
| Indirect intervention in Syria: Crafting an effective
response to the crisis |
| Syria: The Lynchpin to Breaking the Shiite Crescent |
| Alaa Al Aswany: When will the Mubarak regime fall? |
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| February
21 |
| In Syria, opposition struggles to gain foreign support |
| Iran: New Military Exercises, But No New Threat |
| Russia: Caucasus Emirate militants not defeated yet |
| Geopolitical Diary: Yemen's superficial political
transition |
| Roger Cohen: Anthony Shadid’s Story |
| Samual Rascoff: Uncle Sam is no Imam |
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| February
20 |
| Syria: Foreign fighters and arms pour into country |
| Syrian rebel: Uprising is an 'orphan revolution' without
foreign support |
| Andrew Bacevich: Scoring the Global War on Terror |
| Interview: Israel's ex-spy chief sees opportunity in
Syria crisis |
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| February
19 |
| As Libya celebrates a year of freedom, evidence grows of
its disintegration |
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| February
18 |
| Syrians flee their homes amid fears of ethnic cleansing |
| Anthony Shadid: Quite simply the best |
| Jeffrey White: Bashar al-Assad vs. the Syrian People |
| Amir Taheri: The decline of the west and the world
disorder |
| Analysis:Ahmadinejad seen big loser in Iran election |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Arm the Syrian opposition now! |
| What sanctions? Top five countries buying oil from Iran |
| Hassan Barari: Tribes and the monarchy in Jordan |
| Tamar Hermann: Israeli tribalism? |
| Ruth Sherlock: Tribes competing with new national feeling
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| Anthony Shadid: The Best of Our Breed |
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| February
17 |
| Anthony Shadid: Tributes pour in for New York Times
journalist |
| Tutkey: Syrian Refugees Get Help Across the Border |
| European report: Optimism on Assad’s fall
unjustified |
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| February
16 |
| Mideast covert war moves out of shadows |
| Analysis: Israel Shifts Uneasily Over Syria |
| Nathan Gonzalez: Why Israel Should Intervene in Syria |
| Patrick Seale: The View from Riyadh |
| Special Report: Hamas in Transition |
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| February
15 |
| Damascus in the dark: Powerless without power |
| Syria's New Constitution: Too Little, Too Late |
| Can al Qaeda tap into Syria rage? |
| Arnaud De Borchgrave: 'Global power gone' |
| Rami Khouri: A Three-Pronged Strategy on Syria |
| Fareed Zakaria: What's Next for Syria? |
| Feature: Life in Syria unbearable, say refugees in Jordan |
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| February
14 |
| Jihadist Opportunities in Syria |
| Analysis: A Concerted Effort To Kill Israeli Diplomats? |
| Geopolotical Diary: Disparity in the Covert War Between Iran and
the West |
| Syria: Truth is the first casualty |
| Feature: Syria's wounded lay blame on Mossad or MI6
– but never Assad |
| Voice from inside Syria: World powers are the only hope
for resolution |
| Syria: All the evidence points to sectarian civil war |
| For Iraqis, aid to rebels in Syria repays a debt |
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| February
13 |
| After the flight, Syrian refugees prepare to fight |
| Syria: bodies in the rubbish pit suggest there is little
mercy on either side |
| Tariq Alhomayed: Finally…“Friends of the
Syrian People” |
| Hussein Shobokshi: The faces of right and wrong |
| Amir TaherI: China: between fear and hubris |
| Osman Mirghani: When al-Assad said the Syrians lacked
maturity |
| Pepe Escobar: Syria, the new Libya |
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| February
12 |
| Free Syrian Army is all that stands between civilians
and tanks |
| Billions at stake as Russia backs Syria |
| Robert Fisk: Could there be some bad guys among the
rebels too? |
| Syria: Intervention by process of elimination |
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| February
11 |
| Amir Taheri: The Russian veto: saying “no” is
not a policy |
| Rebels defy Assad by carving out their slice of a free
Syria |
| Syrian crisis and the familiar rumblings of a cold war |
| The Global War on Christians in the Muslim World |
| Stratfor: Syrian Rebels Likely Behind Aleppo Bombings |
| Syria: Iran's elite Quds force 'advising Assad regime' |
| Syria risks replicating role played by Lebanon in 1980s |
| Adel Al Toraifi: Egypt’s army too big to fail |
| As Syria bleeds, neighbours brace for refugees |
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| February
10 |
| Syria uprising is now a battle to the death |
| Analysis: Syria's complex and bloody crisis |
| Analysis: China wrestles with role in Syria and beyond |
| Russia's veto on Syria fuelled first by its worries at
home |
| Fouad Ajami:
Inside Syria’s War Zone |
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| February
9 |
| Why Syrians fight, and why their civil war may be a long
one |
| Donatella Della Ratta: Dramas of the Authoritarian State |
| Aleppo, Syria, long loyal to the government, appears to
waver |
| Syria’s
First Family: An illustrated guide to the Assad clan. How long can it cling to power? |
| Robert Wright: Can Russia Save Syria? Can Anything? |
| Rami Khouri: Arab history has been correcting itself |
| Michael Young: Russia conspires to salvage Assad rule |
| Humanitarian Safe Havens: Bosnia's Lessons for Syria |
| Why the U.S. should resist stoking the chaos in Cairo |
| Leon Wieseltier: Damascus Calling: Why we must intervene
in Syria |
| Nesrine Malik: Syria's first lady has a UK passport
– that doesn't make her good |
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| February
8 |
| In Syria: Fears of terrorism out of chaos |
| First foreign troops in Syria back Homs rebels - report |
| Thomas Friedman: Freedom at 4 Below |
| Efraim Halevy: To weaken Iran start with Syria |
| Debate: Ed Hussen: Life after Assad could be worse |
| Debate: Rime Allaf: This Time, Assad Has Overreached |
| Debate: Sharmine Narwan: Syria Is Not Tunisia or Libya |
| Anne-Marie Slaughter: An Iron Grip Shows Signs of
Weakening |
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| February
7 |
| Russia and the United States: Pushing tensions to the
limit? |
| China and Russia act to block a new precedent for
intervention |
| Syria bloodshed: Russia wants to give war a chance |
| From the Syria veto to the Egypt NGO crisis: A weekend of
setbacks to U.S. policy |
| In Syria, a once-quiet village tips into revolution |
| Shadi Hamid: World must aid Syria's rebels |
| Syria: Russia on the wrong side |
| Marc Lynch: The UN Fails Syria |
| Arming the Opposition Is wrong way to unseat Syria’s
Assad: View |
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| February
6 |
| Army defector promises fight to free Syria |
| In birthplace of Syria’s uprising, a fragile
military control |
| Syria on brink of civil war as diplomacy fails |
| How much closer can Syria get to tipping point? |
| Mohammad Akef Jamal: Syria at the point of no return |
| Saudi-Syrian Relations: A Historic Divide |
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| February
5 |
| Syria's most senior defector: Assad's army is close to
collapse |
| Syria resolution: The diplomatic train-wreck |
| Turkey, an imperfect example for the region |
| Subs, silos, UAVs: Rumors cloud Israel's Iran clout |
| Thomas Friedman: Russia: Sort of, but Not Really |
| Charles Krauthammer: Toppling Syria would undercut Iran's
influence |
| Michael Bell: After Assad's fall, a sectarian struggle |
| Egypt: Muslim Brotherhood will continue to support
military, for now |
| Egypt: Fallout From the Sinai Kidnappings |
| Gideon Levy: Israelis should be afraid of their leaders,
not Iran |
| Amir Oren: Israeli warnings on Iran war are more than
empty threats |
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| February
4 |
| Analysis:
Syrian Rebels' Supply Lines |
| David Ignatius: Is Israel preparing to attack Iran? |
| Rami Khouri: Shop in Singapore and take in the global
marketplace |
| Damascus avoids blood of uprising, but not pain |
| Insight: Syria's Assad set for long conflict |
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| February
3 |
| Effort to rebrand Arab Spring backfires in Iran |
| Syria presents an opportunity for the Arab League to
make its presence felt |
| Senate panel approves potentially toughest penalty yet
against Iran’s wallet |
| Robert Page: Why We Shouldn’t Attack Syria (Yet) |
| Envisioning a Deal With Iran |
| Egypt football violence: hooliganism on the surface,
state thuggery underneath |
| Gwynne Dyer: Syria facing specter of civil war |
| Lawrence Davidson: Why the Islamists win elections in
Arab countries |
| Russia’s Syrian power play |
| Omar Ashour: Generals vs Tahrir |
| Against Syrian anger, Assad's sect feels fear |
| Michael Young: From Russia, for Bashar’s eyes only |
| Rami Khouri: Put Hamas-Jordan amity to a referendum |
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| February
2 |
| U.S. Naval Update Map Feb. 2, 2012 |
| Soldier says Syrian atrocities forced him to defect |
| Israel's Demographic Time-Bomb: An Arab-Majority State? |
| Feature: Iraq becomes dollar source for sanctions-hit
Iran, Syria |
| Assad may start regional war if UN tells him to step
down: Report |
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| February
1 |
| Syria slides towards civil war |
| Nicholas Blanford: Rumors swirl that Syria freed top Al-Qaeda
leader from prison |
| Analysis: Syrian regime may survive, but with reduced
clout |
| Robert Fisk: Syria is used to the slings and arrows of
friends and enemies |
| Ed Husain: We Intervene in Syria at Our Peril |
| Special Report:
Iran's oil smuggling network in Iraq |
| Syria's Alawites, a secretive and persecuted sect |
| US fears increased terror threat from Iran |
| Al-Qaida in decline, but threats to US multiply |
| Feature: Syrians face crackdown with creativity, humor |
| Syria: Bashar al Assad and family 'will be killed like
Gaddafi' |
| Feature: Syrians buy up gold as currency plunges |
| Syrian Dissidents: "One Day in Prison is Like a
Year" |
| Tony Karon: Assad may be under pressure, but not on his
way out yet |
| After Assad: The Syrian short list |
