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f Intelligence Omar Suleiman of fomenting sedition in Syria. Students at Damascus University also issued a statement on Friday, accusing Iranian and Hizbullah students of collaboration with the Syrian Students Union (Baathist) and Syrian security agencies in arresting demonstrating students. The Syrian up
former ruling party, the NDP. Yemen The Gulf Cooperation Council's compromise initiative was finally accepted by both the opposition and President Saleh last week. The compromise agreement stipulates, inter alia, that President Saleh will relinquish power within thirty days, on the proviso that he a
ectarian tensions are also beginning to surface in Syria. In Dara'a, a predominantly Sunni city, protesters have accused Iran and the Lebanese party Hizbullah of participating in the suppression of demonstrations. In Latakia, clashes have also erupted along sectarian lines. Lebanese and Iranian involvement
litary elite made it impossible to end the Houthis' rebellion, or stem the tide of the secessionist movement in the south of the country. President Saleh did not work to extend the writ of the state beyond major urban centers lest the sheikhs turn against him. He also did not give as much attention to
He had long been under pressure to abandon his principles. (No doubt, by this he meant his Arab nationalist convictions, his alliance with Iran and Hizbullah, his opposition to Israel and the United States.) Syria needed to strengthen its immunity against such conspiracies, he insisted. In this defiant
eads a regional counter-revolution by abetting repressive monarchs in the Persian Gulf and providing sanctuary to fallen autocrats — with President Saleh of Yemen being among the latest beneficiaries — post-revolutionary Egypt could once again inspire change across the region. Given its size, history
the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt met with important political actors during a visit in Lebanon. For the first time, it did not ask for a meeting with Hizbullah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah. The current relationship between the two factions is markedly different from the decades of alliance against western
t those of IPI. Yemen Yemen is in a state of political paralysis and the power vacuum is enticing to separatist and terrorist movements. President Saleh's future political plans remain murky. German and Saudi doctors operated on the President in Riyadh removing shrapnel from his chest and neck. Saleh
. He had long been under pressure to abandon his principles. (No doubt, by this he meant his Arab nationalist convictions, his alliance with Iran and Hizbullah, his opposition to Israel and the United States.) Syria needed to strengthen its immunity against such conspiracies, he insisted. In this defiant spe
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030168 →rheads a regional counter-revolution by abetting repressive monarchs in the Persian Gulf and providing sanctuary to fallen autocrats - with President Saleh of Yemen being among the latest beneficiaries — post-revolutionary Egypt could once again inspire change across the region. Given its size, history,
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Hassan Nasrallah—the leader of the Lebanese party Hizbullah-called on the Syrian people to give the governmen
ark, protesters can disperse to unlit alleyways to escape arrest—a tactic Syrian activists call "tayyara" or flying. Yemen The authority of President Saleh's government continues to erode rapidly and Yemen appears to be edging closer towards a civil war. Tribal fighters in the capital of Sanaa, have gain
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031329 →Entities connected to both Hezbollah and Saleh

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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Barack Obama
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Hosni Mubarak
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Cairo
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Tunisia
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Bill Clinton
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Bahrain
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Fatah
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Hillary Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Muammar Gaddafi
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Riyadh
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Morocco
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