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ric who played a key role in government deals with rebel fighters, according to Syrian state media and a government website." The blast that killed Damascus Mufti Adnan Afiouni "took place in the town of Qudsaya, west of the capital of Damascus." It was not known who planted the bomb and no group immedi

nterfere with the 2020 presidential election, calling accusations of hacking unfounded." US Officials Remain More Concerned About Russia Than Iran. The New Ynrk Times (10/22, Barnes, Perlroth, Sanger, 18.61M) reports that "while senior Trump administration officials said this week that Iran has been actively inte

er corporate criminal bribery law." The AP (10/22, Balsamo, Sweet) reports, "Goldman Sachs Malaysia entered the plea in federal court in Brooklyn." The New York Timing (10/22, Goldstein, Flitter, 18.61M) says Goldman "admitted its Malaysian subsidiary 'knowingly and willingly' conspired to violate the Foreign Corr

inked with al-Qaeda, has set up checkpoints on some roads just north of the Jordanian border. Finally, Assad's forces have regained control of many Damascus suburbs, essentially by starving the residents into submission. With Ahmad al-Jarba , the political leader of the Syrian opposition, to visit Was

, irritable, contradictory and at times detached from reality. It began with a complaint about negative coverage on Fox News, when, in fact, it was the New York Times' front page that featured Obama's foreign policy failures, most recently the inability to conclude a trade agreement with Japan and the collapse of

reports the US on Wednesday "blacklisted what it called 'key enablers' of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government, reinforcing efforts to push Damascus back to United Nations-led negotiations to end Syria's nearly decade-long civil war." The US sanctioned 13 entities and six individuals, including

0, 368K) reports Cameron had asked for a one-week extension in a motion filed Tuesday. The Washingtnn Past (9/30, Iati, Berman, Knowles, 14.2M) and New Ynrk Times (9/30, Wright, Bogel- Burroughs, 18.61M), among other news outlets, also report the delay. Seagram's Heiress Sentenced To 81 Months In NXIVM Sex Sla

ng Israel's frontier with Syria and Lebanon after Lebanon's Hezbollah militia said a fighter was killed in an apparent Israeli strike on the edge of Damascus last week." The Israeli military has since "boosted its forces on its northern front." An Israeli military spokeswoman "said on Sunday that an Isra

rom rupturing the agreement than they would gain." US, Chinese Officials Pushing Countries Toward New Era of Confrontation. In a front-page article, the New York Times <https://www.nytimes.corn/2020/07/25/world/asia/us-china-trump-xi.html> (7/25, Wong, Myers, 18.6IM) reports, "The United States and China are disman

, whose regime has reportedly killed more than 1,100 opponents since March, Turkey and Syria have established close relations. In 2009, Ankara and Damascus signed a strategic cooperation agreement, conducted joint military exercises, and launched military industrial cooperation. They also introduced vi

urkish diplomats, meanwhile, have taken on a more active role in the region. Some Turkish initiatives have been successful (the effort to free four New York Times journalists captured in Libya); some were said to have almost succeeded (the 2008 talks between Syria and Israel); some have been dismissed by alli

guaranteed access to U.S. markets. The Iraq War was designed to "shock and awe" that nation's ruler and to convince other opponents of the U.S., in Damascus and Tehran, especially, that they could be next. Meanwhile, it was hoped that once a pro-Western, democratic Iraq stabilized, it would give the U.

em built and maintained by the United States and its allies. As Leslie Gelb and The National Interest publisher Dimitri Simes_[15]noted in [15]The New York Times [15] last month [15], both nations "appear to have decided that, to better advance their own interests, they need to knock Washington down a peg or

versary to its north. The balkanization of the Levant is giving rise to an array of Islamist forces, and Israel can no longer rely on the regime in Damascus to keep Hezbollah in check for its own interests. In trying to sustain its position in Syria and Lebanon, Iran has increased the number of its oper

Netanyahu must also take much blame for stoking resentment among Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank for so long," opined the Financial Times. The New York Times' caveat came lower down in its initial editorial on the war: "But it would be easier to win support for retaliatory action if Israel was engaged in

ge-scale chemical weapons attack on August 21 that mocked Obama's "red line" rhetoric and finally elicited a White House threat of force to punish Damascus. Iran, meanwhile, has continued its uranium enrichment program even in the face of stringent sanctions, coming closer to nuclear weapons "breakout"

still the way to go. Tina Rosenberg is the author, most recently, of Join the Club: How Peer Pressure Can Transform the World, and a co-writer of The New York Times' Fixes column. EFTA_R1_02208427 EFTA02722937

96 The first objection is that there is no clear strategy for intervention. Do we want foreign armies to destroy Assad's war machine and march on Damascus? The answer must be no. The intervention needed would be aimed at two precise objectives. The first is to enforce the arms embargo already approved

Maen Rashid Areikat is chief representative of the general delegation of the Palestine Liberation Organization to the United States. Article 2. N YT Beltway Foreign Policy RogerCohen February 18, 2013 -- "IT is not going too far to say that American foreign policy has become completely subserv

urbances started in mid-March in Daraa, a southern city on the border with Jordan, when a dozen children were manhandled, arrested and carried off to Damascus for scribbling hostile graffiti on a wall. Distraught parents came down into the street to vent their anger at such heavy-handed brutality. They were

y-acclaimed Newsweek column that examines politics, media and social and global issues. His 2010 book "The Promise. President Obama, Year One," a New York Times bestseller, offers the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut after his historic election. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024996