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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
Whatever the case, the attempt to include Iran in the talks should come as no surprise -- for months, UN Special Representative for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi has privately and publicly lobbied Western and Arab countries to allow Iran into the Geneva process. While Secretary of State John Kerry has said t
hese issues shed light on the difficulty certain groups in civil society face when attempting to play a direct role in post-Qaddafi political life. Tunisia: A national dialogue on the first draft of the constitution took place in several regions in Tunisia on December 23rd an initiative spearheaded by th
Enjoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi held a third trilateral meeting with US and Russian diplomats on January 11th in Geneva. According to press reports, Brahimi was quoted after the meeting as saying, "if you are asking me whether a solution is around the corner, I'm not sure that is the case." Jordan: As o
ont runners for these positions are considered dovish on the =ssue. In the broader context of the region, unpredictability is the order of the =ay. Tunisia and Egypt seems to be roughly split in two with regimes leanin= to conservative Islam on one side and moderate, secular and liberals on t=e other. I
the table. On the table western powers= Russia, China, Iran and the UN are calling for a diplomatic and political=solution, spearheaded by UN envoy Brahimi. Under the table a vicious milit=ry escalation is being conducted by both sides with close intelligence co-=peration at the highest level through th
Entities connected to both Tunisia and Brahimi

Barack Obama
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATION
Tehran
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Kuwait
LOCATION
Mohamed Morsi
PERSON
Tripoli
LOCATIONMediterranean
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