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ompensate Egypt for lost American military assistance. The Syrian crisis and the US administration's reluctant position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference, particularly after the Obama administration retreated from its threats to strike Al-Assad's regime

reats to strike Al-Assad's regime and engaged in a deal on Syrian EFTA00705807 chemical weapons, which gave another opportunity of survival to Al- Assad. The major source of the US-Saudi difference, however, came on Iran — particularly after the initial agreement on its nuclear programme, which Saud

Daniel Abraham Article S. Al-Ahram Weekly Did Obama succeed in Riyadh? Al-Sayed Amin Shalabi Article 6. Hurriyet The next battle: Presidency Mustafa Akyol Article 7. The Economist Egypt's probable president: Pretending to be a civilian Article 8. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace What Wil

ington should be doing more to buttress the anti-Assad forces in Syria and the military government in E

Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, and other places that the Saudis are concerned about. So that's a major difference. The United States wants Syrian president Bashar al-Assad gone, but we put a much lower priority on it than the Saudis do. The other big issue on which there are differences is Egypt. While the United Stat

le 4. The American Interest Releasing Pollard: Don't Do It, Mr. Secretary Daniel Kurtzer Article 5. Hurriyet Turkey - Lessons from the ballots Mustafa Akyol Article 6. The Council on Foreign Relations Split Persists Between Washington and Riyadh An interview with F. Gregory Gause III Article 7. NYT

nt position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference,

compensate Egypt for lost American military assistance. The Syrian crisis and the US administration's reluctant position towards acting against the Bashar Al-Assad regime came to add to the sources of difference, particularly after the Obama administration retreated from its threats to strike Al-Assad's regim

ram Weekly Did Obama succeed in Riyadh? Al-Sayed Amin Shalabi Article 6. Htirriyet EFTA_R1_02203831 EFTA02720449 The next battle: Presidency Mustafa Akyol Article 7. The Economist Egypt's probable president: Pretending to be a civilian Article 8. Carnegie Endowment for International Peace What Wi

rs the uprising in Syria to be, to some extent, the handiwork of the United States and its European allies. This perception is fundamentally wrong: Assad's is an oppressive, minority-Alawi regime. It came to power via a 1970 coup. In 1982, the current dictator's father, then president Hafez al- Assad

akes in Muslim Brotherhood, Salafi and even al-Qaeda- affiliated factions. Despite President Obama's "reset" policy, Russia continues to support [4] Bashar al-Assad's brutal regime. But in a rare admission of reality, a senior Middle East hand acknowledged that Russia must step back. Mikhail Margelov, chair of th

srael and Netanyahu, Pipe Down the Threats of War on Iran Leslie H. Gelb Article 5. The Daily Star A Turkish model of governance for the Arabs? Mustafa Akyol Article 6. The National Interest Dead End in Damascus Ariel Cohen Article 7. Yale-Global The Muslim Brotherhood and Egypt's Economy? EFTA0068

secretary-general Annan's plan for a political settlement was announced, the Turkish leadership made it clear that there could be no solution with Assad in power. With this policy of direct confrontation, Ankara not only strove to obtain the moral high ground. It also sought to precipitate the fall

rld Politics Review The Realist Prism: Tracing the Roots of the Arab Spring Nikolas Gvosdev Article 3. Hurriyet Daily News Turkey's longest war Mustafa Akyol Article 4. The National Interest Turkey's Syria Conundrum Sinan Ulgen Article 5. The Globe and Mail The `new cold war' is an information war