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As tanks and troops besieged the city of Deraa for the third day in a row, the UN Security Council yesterday met in New York to discuss violence in Syria. The outcome of the meeting was a failure to...
Tags: Lebanon, United Nations, Syria, protests As the seventh Friday in the history of the Syrian uprising approaches, protestors across the country are preparing for a showdown with the security forces under the watchful eye of the international...
Tags: United Nations, Syria, protests, United States Despite promises of reform made by the Syrian President Bashar Assad, the demonstrations in Syria are still spreading across the country. Recent escalations have had repercussions in Lebanon, where...
Tags: Lebanon, Syria, protests The saga of the government formation in Lebanon may be resolved this week, as Shia militant group Hezbollah and its allies may have reached an agreement on the allotment of portfolios. However,...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, elections The ongoing uprising sweeping across Syria has left President Bashar Assad treading a fine line between, on one hand, exposing to the world his image as a dictator and, on the other, retaining the...
Tags: Syria, protests, Reform The initial caution which marked the reaction of Lebanese politicians to news of the popular uprising in Syria began to dissipate this week, with the Hezbollah-backed March 8 coalition expressing...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests After months of deadlock in the formation of the Lebanese government, Prime Minister-Designate Najib Mikati yesterday presented to President Michel Sleiman the first draft of the Cabinet lineup. The...
Tags: Governance, Hezbollah, Syria The Bahraini and Syrian uprisings this week are proof to one thing in Lebanon - that all politics are local. The sectarian nature of the tensions in Bahrain struck a chord with the Lebanese,...
Tags: Democracy, Hezbollah, Syria, protests, Bahrain Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a recent interview with the Wall Street Journal that his regime will not suffer the same fate as Egypt's Hosni Mubarak because "Syria has no ties with Israel."...
Tags: Hezbollah, Syria, Israel, protests Three Syrian nationals went missing in Lebanon after they distributed pamphlets outside the Syrian embassy calling for protests and demanding political reform in Syria. No word has come out on their...
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