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assan bin Talal is chairman and founder of the Arab Thought Forum and the West Asia-North Africa Forum. EFTA_R1_02031582 EFTA02690691 Arbelt 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors June 21, 2011 -- Syrian President Bashar al Assad delivered a long and uneventful speech Monday, duri

Post Avoiding a summer of blood David Ignatius Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal Article 3. Stratfor Turkey's Inevitable Problems With Neighbors Agence Global A Defiant Asad Sticks to His Guns Patrick Seale Foreign Policy In Focus Egypt's Evolv

cape the army's siege, the situation in Syria is undoubtedly growing desperate. However, we have not yet seen the red flags that would indicate the al Assad regime is in imminent danger of collapse. The reasons are fairly straightforward. The al Assad clan belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, who only 4

eign Policy How Hamas Won the War Aaron David Miller Article 3 New York Daily News The Fuel for The Flames Dennis Ross Article 4. Article 5. Stratfor Israel and Gaza: Then and Now The Washington Post The callousness of Hamas Richard Cohen EFTA_R1_00464339 EFTA01977723 The Wall Street Journa

t U.S. military buildup in the Persian Gulf and an intensifying U.S.-led economic warfare campaign slowed Iran down, but it was the decline of the al Assad regime that put Iran on the defensive. An emboldened Sunni opposition in Syria, backed by the West, Turkey and the Arab Gulf states, could spill in

in Washington visit William Wan Article 3. The Christian Science Monitor Israel is not the threat, Mr. Obama. Iran is. John Bolton Article 4. Stratfor Israel's New Strategic Environment George Friedman Article 5. Agence Global The Irrational US-Iran-Israel Dynamic Rami G. Khouri Article 6. T

and Iran a dominant influence there, the Israelis face a more complex choice. If the regime of President Bashar al Assad survives (with or without al Assad himself), Iran -- which is supplying weapons and advisers to Syria -- will wield much greater influence in Syria. In effect, this would create an

escape the army's siege, the situation in Syria is undoubtedly growing desperate. However, we have not yet seen the red flags that would indicate the al Assad regime is in imminent danger of collapse. The reasons are fairly straightforward. The al Assad clan belongs to Syria's Alawite minority, who only 40

complex pieces of real estate in the world, is now finding that a foreign policy built on avoiding problems with neighbors grinds against reality. In STRATFOR's view, this was inevitable, which is why we took interest in Monday's issue of Today's Zaman, an English-language outlet loyal to the movement of Fe

olicy in Lebanon - wholly dependent on Iran. And Iran without its Syrian ally is very far away from Hezbollah. Like Tehran, Hezbollah thus also wants al Assad to survive. Hezbollah joining Hamas in a confrontation with Israel would take the focus off the al Assad regime and portray his opponents as undermin

epends on what others decide - which is the fundamental strategic problem that Israel has. Dr. Friedman is the Chief Executive Officer and founder of STRATFOR. Dr. Friedman is the author of The New York Times bestseller "The Next Decade: Where We've Been... and Where We're Going, HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031924 ---