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ruiting supporters within the ranks of the still largely secular protest movement, whose unifying goal is the ouster of the regime led by President Bashar al-Assad. But if the United Nations' peace plan fails to end the government's bloody crackdown and promises of Western and Arab help for the rebel Free S
al. Although many Syrian opposition activists insist that their revolution is not sectarian, EFTA00660170 a majority of Syrians are Sunnis, while Assad, along with most leading figures in the regime and in the security forces, belongs to the Shiite- affiliated Alawite minority, lending a sectarian d
and are playing a role in the opposition, but they, too, arc to EFTA00660171 be distinguished from the jihadis, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "People who are local and pious and moving in an Islamist direction and are taking up guns don't have the same organization and are not
- for-assad-to-end-war-idUSICBN26L2MY> (9/30, Psaledakis) reports the US on Wednesday "blacklisted what it called `key enablers' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria's nearly decade-long civil war." The US sanc
id, "The United States will continue to employ all of its tools and authorities to target the finances of anyone who profits from or facilitates the Assad regime's abuse of the Syrian people." Taliban's Team Of Peace Negotiators Comprised Of "Old Guard." The Washington Post <https://www.washingtonpost
Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visitin
n Push For Assad To End War. Reifterc (9/30, Psaledakis) reports the US on Wednesday "blacklisted what it called 'key enablers' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria's nearly decade-long civil war." The US sanc
id, "The United States will continue to employ all of its tools and authorities to target the finances of anyone who profits from or facilitates the Assad regime's abuse of the Syrian people." Taliban's Team Of Peace Negotiators Comprised Of "Old Guard." The Washington Post (9/30, George, Tassal, Kha
i Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti
In Push For Assad To End War. Reuters (9/30, Psaledakis) reports the US on Wednesday "blacklisted what it called 'key enablers' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria's nearly decade-long civil war." EFTA001489
d, "The United States will continue to employ all of its tools and authorities to target the finances of anyone who profits from or facilitates the Assad regime's abuse of the Syrian people." Taliban's Team Of Peace Negotiators Comprised Of "Old Guard." The Washington Post (9/30, George, Tassal, Khan
Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti
In Push For Assad To End War. Reuters (9/30, Psaledakis) reports the US on Wednesday "blacklisted what it called 'key enablers' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria's nearly decade-long civil war." The US san
d, "The United States will continue to employ all of its tools and authorities to target the finances of anyone who profits from or facilitates the Assad regime's abuse of the Syrian people." Taliban's Team Of Peace Negotiators Comprised Of "Old Guard." The Washington Post (9/30, George, Tassal, Khan
Fellow Hala Aldosari, ALQST founder Yahya Assiri, Kawaakibi Foundation President Iyad el-Baghdadi, New York Times Beirut Bureau Chief Ben Hubbard, Middle East Center Visiting Professor Madawi Al-Rasheed, American Enterprise Institute Resident Scholar Karen Young, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Visiti
and giving the demonstrators moral support would immediately circulate over the Internet. American sanctions against Syria, meanwhile, have not named Assad, and there has been no call for him to step down. Why is the administration appearing to stick with Assad and refusing to call for his ouster? A key
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031835 →response has not grown grimmer or louder. As recently as May 6, Secretary of State Clinton was still talking about a "reform agenda" in Syria, as if Bashar al-Assad were a slightly misguided bureaucrat rather than the murderer of roughly 1,000 unarmed demonstrators. As for the president, though the White House ha
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031835 →, Mitchell's departure could signal stagnant talks for the next several years. According to Fawaz Gerges, director of the London School of Economics' Middle East Center, "the reality is that, with Mitchell leaving, Barack Obama basically lost the ideological battle [over how to confront the peace process]. By now he'
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031844 →Entities connected to both Bashar al-Assad and Middle East Center

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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Tunisia
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Marc Rich
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Hillary Clinton
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Jerusalem
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Donald Trump
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Department of Justice
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Joe Biden
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Fatah
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Michael Cohen
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Prince Andrew
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