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Syria's Assad meets peace envoy Annan again
BEIRUT: Former United Nations chief Kofi Annan, on a difficult peace mission to Syria, held a second day of talks with President Bashar Al-Assad on Sunday as Syrian forces pursued a drive to crush rebel bastions in the northwest. A UN spokesman (...)

11 - 03 - 2012
Syrian forces batter rebels, UN body condemns Syria
BEIRUT: Elite Syrian forces trying to destroy rebels besieged in Homs pounded the shattered district of Baba Amro on Thursday, despite international alarm at the plight of civilians trapped there. Snow blanketed the city, slowing down the (...)

01 - 03 - 2012
Arab League head warns of possible civil war in Syria
BEIRUT: Arab League head Nabil El-Araby said on Friday he feared a possible civil war in Syria that could have consequences for neighboring countries, as the credibility of the League's monitoring mission was hit by members starting to walk (...)

13 - 01 - 2012
Some Arab monitors quit Syria over persisting violence
CAIRO/BEIRUT: Several Arab League monitors have left Syria or may do so soon because the mission has failed to halt President Bashar al-Assad's violent crackdown on a popular revolt against his rule, an Algerian former monitor said on (...)

12 - 01 - 2012
Islamist success is democracy at work: Moussa
CAIRO: Amr Moussa, a front-runner for Egypt's presidency, said on Sunday the strong Islamist showing in the first parliamentary election since army generals replaced Hosni Mubarak in February had to be swallowed as democracy in action. The Muslim (...)

04 - 12 - 2011
Parliamentary vote tests troubled political transition
CAIRO: Egyptians started voting on Monday in the first big test of a transition born in popular revolutionary euphoria that soured into distrust of the generals who replaced their master, Hosni Mubarak. In the nine months since a revolt ended the (...)

28 - 11 - 2011
Arab unrest should spur Israel on peace: Turkey's Gul
BEIRUT: Turkish President Abdullah Gul urged Israel to make peace with the Palestinians as a strategic response to a wave of popular uprisings in the Arab world and to long-term demographic trends working against the Jewish state. "Israel cannot (...)

22 - 04 - 2011
Arab revolts set to transform Middle East
BEIRUT: The astonishing popular protests against Arab autocrats that have churned the region for three months are the authentic birth pangs of a new Middle East. Israel's American-backed attempts to bomb Hezbollah and south Lebanon into (...)

03 - 04 - 2011
Yemen protests threaten Saleh's grip on power
DUBAI: Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh is resisting popular demands for him to step down now, but will have to make good on promised reforms if he is to stem a nationwide tide of protests in which 12 people have been killed. Saleh, 68, who (...)

22 - 02 - 2011
Go now, Egyptian Nobel laureate tells Mubarak
CAIRO: US-Egyptian scientist Ahmed Zewail once received a medal from President Hosni Mubarak. Now, he says, it's time for the Egyptian leader to heed the demonstrators clamoring for his departure. "He should step down tomorrow and allow for a (...)

10 - 02 - 2011
Egyptian army could hold key to Mubarak's fate
BEIRUT: Egypt's military has kept out of this week's clashes between police and protesters demanding the ousting of 82-year-old President Hosni Mubarak, but it could eventually decide his fate, echoing events in Tunisia. A Tunisian army general's (...)

29 - 01 - 2011
Hezbollah power swings Lebanon away from West
BEIRUT: The balance of power in Lebanon shifted toward Syria and Iran on Tuesday when a Hezbollah-backed politician was named prime minister, ousting a Western-allied bloc that has headed governments for nearly six years. Sunni Muslims loyal to (...)

26 - 01 - 2011
Analysis: Egyptians chafe under Mubarak's protracted tenure
BEIRUT: After 30 years of President Hosni Mubarak's ultra-cautious rule, some of Egypt's 79 million people feel change is overdue – even his claim to be the guarantor of stability has looked shaky since a Jan. 1 attack on Christians. But restive (...)

11 - 01 - 2011
Arab world faces worsening water crisis
BEIRUT: The Arab world, one of the driest regions on the planet, will tip into severe water scarcity as early as 2015, a report issued on Thursday predicts. By then, Arabs will have to survive on less than 500 cubic meters of water a year each, (...)

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