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East Update [[email protected]] Middle East Update - May 25-31, 2011 Middle East Update May 25-31, 2011 Syria International pressure on Damascus is mounting. After the US imposed sanctions on the Syrian leadership earlier in May, the EU foreign ministers agreed to impose travel bans and to fre

tempt to end the protests. Tens of people were killed or wounded over the weekend and tanks have entered two suburbs of the city of Homs, Rastan, and Talbiseh. The heavy-handed repression by police and military officials may lead demonstrators to consider a recourse to arms. The government is cracking down

, 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

en furiously buying smuggled weapons since the crisis began. Last week for the first time, anti-regime activists reported that people in Rastan and Talbiseh were meeting tanks with rocket-propelled grenades. Some of the conflicting reports from Jisr al-Shaghour, the besieged town near the northwestern b

e=tly suspended the project. <=r> Meanwhile, the CIA Hs rival plan to simply ship armaments to existing forces fighting against=the government in Damascus hasn't yielded more than "</=ont>zilch," at least according to rece=t reports. Except that the success that anti-Assad forces have had w=th anti-tan

hort period that the air strikes have taken place, =hey've predictably generated the usual reports of "collateral =amage," including 17 civilians in Talbiseh at the very outset on =eptember 30. =p class="MsoNormal">The Russian moves, if only because they=represent something fundamentally different in a c