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owded together with one million Iraqi war refugees. The Assad regime failed to effectively help any of them, so when the Arab awakenings erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian democrats followed suit and quickly found many willing recruits from all those dislocated by the drought. But also consider this

st time to say "enough" to more civilian deaths — and exactly the right time for a cease-fire and secure deliveries of humanitarian supplies. NYT WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria Thomas L. Friedman JAN. 21, 2014 -- In the 1970s, I got both my bachelor's and master's degrees in modern Middle East studies,

uary 22 update Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 12:02:48 +0000 22 January, 2014 Article 1. NYT Another Syria Peace Conference Editorial Article 2. NYT WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria Thomas L. Friedman Article 3. The Washington Institute Avoiding Assad's Forced Solution to the Syria Crisis Andrew J. Tabler

owded together with one million Iraqi war refugees. The Assad regime failed to effectively help any of them, so when the Arab awakenings erupted in Tunisia and Egypt, Syrian democrats followed suit and quickly found many willing recruits from all those dislocated by the drought. But also consider this

on between the Syrian drought and the uprising there for a Showtime documentary that will air in April, but recently our researchers came across a WikiLeaks cable that brilliantly foreshadowed how environmental stresses would fuel the uprising. Sent on Nov. 8, 2008, from the U.S. Embassy in Damascus to

Sent: Thur 1/23/2014 12:02:48 PM Subject: January 22 update 22 January, 2014 Article 1. NYT Another Syria Peace Conference Editorial I NYT WikiLeaks, Drought and Syria Thomas L. Friedman Article 3. The Washington Institute Avoiding Assad's Forced Solution to the Syria Crisis Andrew J. Tabler

er made his "first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region." Esper arrived in Tunisia "to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied." During a meeting "at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his count

private security agency "that was meant to be guarding the Ecuadorean embassy in London were actually carrying out a very different task: spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a court filing." Staff discussed a "plot to kidnap the Australian from his hideout in the building," CCTV camer

r made his "first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region." Esper arrived in Tunisia "to meet with top officials, induding the country's president, Kais Saied." During a meeting "at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his counte

private security agency "that was meant to be guarding the Ecuadorean embassy in London were actually carrying out a very different task: spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a court filing." Staff discussed a "plot to kidnap the Australian from his hideout in the building," CCTV camer

gence of a Kurdish state is important. The first is that unlike other developments in the Middle East -- such as in Iran, Syria, Iraq, Libya, Egypt, Tunisia and Yemen, which involve only two states or two non-state actors, such as the Arab-Israel conflict, the division of Iraq into Arab and Kurdish sect

and a chance someday of being elected prime minister—all this without even trying. Indeed, according to a U.S. State Department cable published by WikiLeaks, in June 2009 Lieberman traveled to Moscow where, in the assessment of one Israeli diplomat present, he comported himself like an "old friend." "Li

r made his "first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region." Esper arrived in Tunisia "to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied." During a meeting "at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his count

private security agency "that was meant to be guarding the Ecuadorean embassy in London were actually carrying out a very different task: spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a court filing." Staff discussed a "plot to kidnap the Australian from his hideout in the building," CCTV camer

r made his "first visit to Africa Wednesday, a trip aimed in part at pushing back on Russian and Chinese influence in the region." Esper arrived in Tunisia "to meet with top officials, including the country's president, Kais Saied." During a meeting "at the Tunisian Defense Ministry, Esper and his count

private security agency "that was meant to be guarding the Ecuadorean embassy in London were actually carrying out a very different task: spying on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to a court filing." Staff discussed a "plot to kidnap the Australian from his hideout in the building," CCTV camer

t H. Pelletreau EFTA00586489 AniCIC 1. Project Syndicate The Middle East Awakening Joschka Fischer 2011-02-25 -- When the democratic revolt in Tunisia successfully ousted the old regime, the world reacted with amazement. Democracy from below in the Arab world? After the overthrow of Hosni Mubara

ectrifying effect. Activists used Twitter and Facebook to mobilize street demonstrations and spread warnings on police tactics and concentrations. WikiLeaks, moreover, had weeks earlier published the U.S. ambassador's confidential reports of corruption within the president's family. These had the effect

ation to King Hassan II, Morocco angrily severed diplomatic relations with Iran, according to Saudi officials and cables obtained by the organization WikiLeaks. As far away as Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim country, the Saudis have watched warily as Iranian clerics have expanded their activities

in Bahrain, where Shiites are a distinct majority and Iran had claimed sovereignty as recently as 1970. The protests that began this past January in Tunisia had nothing to do with any of this. They started when a struggling street vendor in that country's desolate heartland publicly set himself on fire af

ies have smelled blood. Riding on the turbulent wave of popular dissent, they will not easily give up. According to US diplomatic cables, released by WikiLeaks and published in mid-April in The Washington Post, the State Department secretly financed a London-based network of Bashar’s opponents to the tune of

oreign crises that seemed so much out of its control. At first, Hillary looked clairvoyant: in January, when the street protests were still small in Tunisia, she lectured decrepit dictatorial HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024975 --- PAGE BREAK --- [9 regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations a