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, 2012 Article 1 The Sunday Telegraph Why I defected from Bashar al-Assad's regime, by former diplomat Nawaf Fares Ruth Sherlock Article 2. NOW Lebanon Scared by the tribunal, who me? Michael Young Article 3. Russia in Global Affairs Echo of an Impending War Sergey Karaganov Article 4. The Wa

bers would be accused, civil war would ensue, and Sunnis and Shia would fight, in the memorable words of Bashar al-Assad, from the Mediterranean to the Caspian Sea. Now the tribunal provokes hardly a yawn, as lawyers pursue the laborious legal process in their Dutch bubble. This week, the Lebanese state paid i

liamentary seats in post-revolution elections. Brotherhood leaders say they have been reaching out to Syria's neighbors, including Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon — as well as to U.S. and European diplomats — to reassure them that they have no intention of dominating a future Syrian political system or establ

laims in the South China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy- related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice-free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su

hich allows Moscow to reassert a plausible Mediterranean threat to NATO. Syria also provides Iran with a front line against Israel via Hezbollah in Lebanon, and that too can be a most effective anti-Western arrowhead for Russia. When I covered the Russian invasion of Georgia in 2008, I learned that a

lmost totally isolated and crucially weakened. That Moscow cannot allow. Why is Iran so central to Mr. Putin's global pretensions? Take a look at the Caspian Sea area map and the strategic equations come into relief. Iran acts as a southern bottleneck to the geography of Central Asia. It could offer the West

liban and other terrorist groups; and, through Syria, is a leading supplier for Hamas and Hezbollah. These groups threaten not only Israel but also Lebanon. Meanwhile, Gulf states fear Iranian designs — either on their territories or their regimes. Iran also targets Azerbaijan. In 2001, Iranian forces

igns — either on their territories or their regimes. Iran also targets Azerbaijan. In 2001, Iranian forces blew up an Azeri oil exploration ship in the Caspian Sea, claiming it was in Iranian territorial waters. In 2009, Iran's movement of an oil rig toward Azerbaijan's territorial waters in the Capsian Sea l

holy grail of the libertarian rig=t—a priority of his second term. That bombed with the public. Reagan chose his battles carefully—withdrawing fr=m Lebanon and invading tiny Grenada. Following 9/11, George W. Bush not on=y invaded Afghanistan but also invaded and occupied Iraq, which had nothin= to do w

hund=ed of soldiers to Syria. It has already conducted hundreds of air st=ikes. It has even launched cruise missile strikes from ships anchore= in the Caspian Sea at targets nearly a thousand miles away. The Rus=ian government claims that it is targeting the Islamic State, but many of =he air strikes appear to

n meeting with the FSA for six months, why does it still not know who makes up the Syrian opposition? As Tony Badran explains in his column for NOW Lebanon today, "we've heard senior officials in the Obama administration, from Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to UN Ambassador Susan Rice, say that ar

t cannot last, don't. "People putting bread on the table, bearing the pressure, they have a limit," said a businessman I chatted with on a beach of the Caspian Sea. "Sooner or later, the limit will come and things will change." Insha'Allah. (God willing.) The Daily Beast Meet Prince Salman, the Next Saudi K

liamentary seats in post-revolution elections. Brotherhood leaders say they have been reaching out to Syria's neighbors, including Jordan, Iraq and Lebanon — as well as to U.S. and European diplomats — to reassure them that they have no intention of dominating a future Syrian political system or estab

32 EFTA01882568 China Sea and into a similar dispute with Japan in the East China Sea. Energy-related disputes of this sort can also be found in the Caspian Sea and in globally warming, increasingly ice- free Arctic regions. The seeds of energy conflicts and war sprouting in so many places simultaneously su