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Critics Assail Israeli Silence on Arab Peace Plan
(JERUSALEM) — On the surface, the Arab League's improved peace initiative offers Israel everything it ever dreamed of — normal relations with an entire region...
Arab League Sweetens Israel-Palestinian Peace Plan
(JERUSALEM) — The Arab League's decision to sweeten its decade-old proposal offering comprehensive peace with Israel has placed Prime Minister Benjamin...
Decade-Old Mideast Peace Plan Re-Emerges
(JERUSALEM) — A dormant, decade-old Mideast peace plan has suddenly emerged as a possible key to breaking years of deadlock between Israel and the Palestinians. ...
Arab League Gives Syrian Seat to Opposition
(DOHA, Qatar) — In a symbolic blow to embattled Syrian President Bashar Assad, senior Arab diplomats said Sunday that they will transfer Syria's seat in their...
Syrian Opposition Takes Seat at Arab Summit
(DOHA, Qatar) — Syrian opposition representatives have taken Syria's seat at an Arab League summit held in Qatar in a significant diplomatic boost for the forces...
The Gaza Crisis and Egypt: Can Cairo Manage a Complex Relationship?
In the face of pressing domestic concerns Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy’s government continues to navigate the treacherous waters of the latest IsraeliGaza...
As Assad ‘Accepts’ Peace Plan, Can Syria Reset its Rebellion?
Three sets of meetings in different capitals on Tuesday offer a bleak reminder that Syria’s uprising against President Bashar al-Assad faces something of a...
One Year Later, Can Syria 'Reset' its Rebellion?
Three sets of meetings in different capitals on Tuesday offer a bleak reminder that Syria's uprising against President Bashar al-Assad faces something of a...
Must-Reads from Around the World: March 20, 2012
More Syria Leaks – Al Jazeera reveals details from confidential Syrian intelligence and security documents handed over by one of the government’s most trusted...
Peacekeepers for Syria? Not While There’s No Peace to Keep
As Arab and Western diplomats work to fashion tools to pressure the Syrian regime to end its military response to a year-old rebellion, an unrelenting artillery...
The Arab League to Syria's President: It's Time for You to Go
The epithet that seemed to be perpetually attached to the Arab League was "toothless." On Sunday, however, the organization was baring fangs at Syria. In the...
Clinton and Russia Spar Over U.N. Resolution on Syria
You know things are bad when Russia won’t return Hillary Clinton’s calls. For more than two days now, Clinton has been waiting for Russian Foreign Minister...
Russia and China Challenge the West on Syria: What Implications for Iran?
The breach among the Permanent Five members of the U.N. Security Council in Saturday’s vote on Syria’s increasingly bloody power struggle could have profound...
Syria: How the Arab League's Monitors are on Mission: Impossible
Perhaps it was always going to be Mission: Impossible. The Arab League task force assigned to monitor Syrias compliance of a deal to end the countrys 10-month...
U.N. Security Council Meets: Syria’s Assad May Be Under Pressure, But He’s Not on His Way Out Yet
As the geopolitical heavyweights gather in New York, Tuesday, for a U.N. Security Council discussion on Syria’s increasingly bloody struggle for power, the Obama...
Global Briefing, Jan. 23 2012: Syria, Sendai and Sarkozy
Juvenile Injustice — The Guardian examines accusations that Israel’s military justice system mistreats Palestinian children. The special report, based on...
Assad's Combative Speech: A Method to the Tyranny?
It was a fiercely combative and confident Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who took to the podium of Damascus University on Tuesday to deliver his fourth speech...
Is Syria’s Bashar Assad the Next Gaddafi or Could He Be the Middle East’s Milosevic?
The fighting words from Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, who vowed Tuesday to hold on to power and crush his opponents with “an iron fist”, were optimistically...
