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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
up with a national reach, at a time when most of the uprising's internal leadership is atomized around local committees that don't coordinate, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "There is no other political party outside of the Brotherhood that has organization across the count
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
d in many Syrian communities 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 hav
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
up with a national reach, at a time when most of the uprising's internal leadership is atomized around local committees that don't coordinate, said Yezid Sayigh of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut. "There is no other political party outside of the Brotherhood that has organization across the count
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