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Posted: 05-05-2011
INTERNATIONAL. Syria is clearly in a state of internal crisis. Facebook-organized protests were quickly stamped out in early February, but by mid-March, a faceless opposition had emerged from the flashpoint city of Daraa in Syria’s largely conservative Sunni southwest.
From Daraa, demonstrations spread to the Kurdish northeast, the coastal Latakia area, urban Sunni strongholds in Hama and Homs and to Aleppo and the suburbs of Damascus. Feeling overwhelmed, the regime experimented with rhetoric on reforms while relying on much more familiar iron-fist methods in cracking down, arresting hund
Posted: June 16, 2013
EGYPT. Egypt "decided today to definitively break off relations with the current regime in Syria, to close that regime's embassy in Cairo and to recall Egypt's charge d'affaires" from Damascus.
Posted: June 14, 2013
JORDAN. The humanitarian response to the conflict in Syria has already struggled to secure enough funding. If the situation continues to deteriorate and the needs continue to rise is a humanitarian response at US$5 billion a year sustainable?
Posted: June 14, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Imposing a no-fly zone would require the United States to destroy Syria's air defenses, entering the two-year-old civil war with the sort of action that NATO used in Libya two years ago.
Posted: June 14, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. President Barack Obama's administration has conducted a review of intelligence reports and concluded that Syrian regime forces had used banned arms, including the nerve gas sarin.
Posted: June 9, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. "What is happening in Syria today completely shuts the doors on any discussions about international conferences and political initiatives," said George Sabra, head of the National Coalition.
Posted: June 6, 2013
SYRIA. Syrian rebels Thursday overran the only crossing on the Israel-Syria ceasefire line in the Golan Heights, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said, a day after they were routed from Qusair.
Posted: June 6, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. America's friends and allies in the Middle East depend on the US' strategic vision, clarity and resolve. They feel unsure, however, about the Obama administration's policy which appears to be timid and unworthy of the US' unique stature and responsibility.
Posted: June 6, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Further steps have been taken towards the convening of an international conference on Syria but it will not be possible to hold it this month.
Posted: June 5, 2013
SYRIA. Syrian forces and their Hezbollah militant allies seized control on Wednesday of the border town of Qusair, dealing a strategic defeat to rebel fighters.
Posted: June 5, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. U.S. F-16 combat aircraft and Patriot missile defense batteries sent to Jordan on a military exercise may remain in the country longer amid growing U.S. concerns that the country could collapse.
Posted: June 4, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Investigators have "reasonable grounds" to believe limited amounts of chemical weapons have been used and warn the country is in "free-fall".
Posted: June 4, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Cables show Russia said it would not sell S-300 to Syria; Russia similarly "froze" S-300 sale to Iran, but linked sale to progress on missile defence in Europe.
Posted: May 30, 2013
LEBANON. Syria has received the first shipment of Russian anti-aircraft S-300 rockets," Lebanese newspaper al-Akhbar quoted Assad as saying in an interview.
Posted: May 29, 2013
LEBANON. Two rockets fired at Hezbollah-controlled southern Beirut bring Syria's escalating civil war deeper into the heart of Lebanon and closer to unrestrained regional conflict.
Posted: May 27, 2013
UAE. Only 3% state a high level of satisfaction with their current remuneration; 21% expect a raise of more than 15% in 2013, according to Bayt.com and YouGov Salary survey.
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date:Posted: June 19, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Year-to-date, the gold futures have corrected 18.43% to US$1,367 while the CRB Commodities Index dropped 2.91% and the Dollar Index rose 1.06%.
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date:Posted: June 19, 2013
UAE. Jones Lang LaSalle report assesses the region's response to the global debate surrounding the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the built environment.
date:Posted: June 18, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Global emerging market equity allocations at lowest since 2008; A net 56% of global investors believe the world economy will strengthen over the coming year, up from a net 48% in May.
Increasing awareness of need to create more sustainable buildings and communities in the Middle East UAE. Jones Lang LaSalle report assesses the region's response to the global debate surrounding the environmental, economic and social sustainability of the built environment.
INTERNATIONAL. In this exclusive interview, Chris Faulkner, CEO of Breitling Energy Companies discusses how Bakken has turned the US into an economic powerhouse and how the US can compete with Saudi Arabia.
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