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rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umb
has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14-month uprising against President Bashar al- Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
concealed its intention to turn to new patrons in the region. EFTA00630296 Tehran believes that Syria has fallen victim to a foreign plot. While Bashar al-Assad is carrying out reforms, Tehran says, there are foreign parties solely concerned with Assad's alliance with the axis of resistance, that wreak havo
li "staging ground" may not be that farfetched, despite a 2005 Baku- Tehran non-aggression pact and official insistence — most recently by President Ilham Aliyev during a cabinet meeting — that Azerbaijan would never allow its territory to be used against its neighbors. However, while Azerbaijan is eminentl
24U2F7> (7/29, Psaledakis, Landay) reports the US on Wednesday imposed new EFTA00136302 sanctions "aimed at cutting off funds for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and warned that anyone doing business with Damascus was also at risk of being blacklisted." Assad's son, Hafez, was "among four people
funds for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government and warned that anyone doing business with Damascus was also at risk of being blacklisted." Assad's son, Hafez, was "among four people and 10 entities, including a Syrian army unit, targeted by Washington over accusations they either aided gover
to-finish-off-the-political-opposition/2020/07/29/db4ca91c-d0f0-1 I ea-8c55- 61e7fa5e82ab_story.html> (7/29, 14.2M) writes that Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev "has blown a gasket," imprisoning his political opposition in a "tantrum...threatening to obliterate what remains of independent political forces i
rotherhood has resurrected itself to become the dominant group in the fragmented opposition movement pursuing a 14- month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. Exiled Brotherhood members and their supporters hold the biggest number of seats in the Syrian National Council, the main opposition umbrella gro
pt, to which the Syrian branch is very loosely affiliated. Syria's Muslim Brotherhood would support NATO intervention to help the opposition topple Assad, and it has published a manifesto outlining its vision of a future democratic state that makes no mention of Islam and enshrines individual liberti
li "staging ground" may not be that farfetched, despite a 2005 Baku-Tehran non-aggression pact and official insistence — most recently by President Ilham Aliyev during a cabinet meeting — that Azerbaijan would never allow its territory to be used against its neighbors. However, while Azerbaijan is eminentl
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ns like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States, and to defend embattled allies like Syria's Bashar al-Assad. There is also growing replica- tion of what might be called authoritarian best practices, vividly on display in the new Chinese law on nongovernment
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019237 →f elections whose out- come resembles the obviously rigged results in total- itarian or junta-like settings. Eurasian presidents such as Azerbaijan's Ilham Aliyev and Belarus's Alyaksandr Lukashenka have repeatedly won elections with over 80 percent of the vote, and others have easily broken the 90 percent barr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019245 →Entities connected to both Bashar al-Assad and Ilham Aliyev

Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Hosni Mubarak
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Tunisia
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Saddam Hussein
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Yemen
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Marc Rich
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Vladimir Putin
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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Jerusalem
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