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Syria

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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: May 21, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Syria said its troops destroyed an Israeli vehicle that crossed into its territory and warned that any attempt to violate its sovereignty would meet "immediate and firm retaliation".
Posted: May 21, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. The discussions on Syria come as Barack Obama is under increasing pressure from some U.S. lawmakers to do more to bring down Bashar al-Assad.
Posted: May 20, 2013
SYRIA. The assault on Qusair appeared to be part of a campaign by Assad's forces to consolidate their grip on Damascus and secure links with their strongholds on the coast.
Posted: May 13, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Turkey said it had made arrests over bombings that killed 46 in a town near the Syrian border and warned Damascus a red line had been crossed.
Posted: May 10, 2013
LEBANON. Hassan Nasrallah said Syria has several options to respond to Israeli strikes, including sending sophisticated weapons to Hezbollah and opening the Golan Heights to action.
Posted: May 9, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. The answer may be exactly what Obama is doing now in Syria: modestly assisting some of the rebel groups, but essentially avoiding the level of involvement that would make him henceforth responsible for events on the ground.
Posted: May 6, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. "Israel is taking a calculated risk that Assad, Iran and Hezbollah are right now fighting a war against the Syrian rebels and probably don't want to open up a second front."
Posted: May 4, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Israel conducted an airstrike in Syria overnight targeting a weapons shipment headed for the militant movement group Hezbollah based in neighboring Lebanon, US media reported.
Posted: May 4, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. Obama said he wouldn't completely rule out any option. Still, he said that sending American forces into Syria probably wouldn't be in the U.S. interest, nor in Syria's.
Posted: May 1, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. The United States, with its European allies, does not have the force needed to end Syria's bloodshed. If it tried, it would merely be held responsible for the bloodshed without achieving any strategic goal.
Posted: May 1, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. President Barack Obama said the U.S. won't rush to intervene in Syria without solid evidence that Bashar al-Assad's regime used chemical weapons.
Posted: May 1, 2013
LEBANON. Hezbollah fighters are aiding troops in Syria to combat the rebellion against President Bashar al-Assad, the head of the Lebanese Shiite movement confirmed.
Posted: April 29, 2013
SYRIA. Syrian Prime Minister Wael al-Halki survived a bomb attack that targeted his convoy in central Damascus on Monday, Syrian state media reported.
Posted: April 26, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. The new assessment draws Obama closer to his previously declared "red line" over such use and has fueled calls for action by lawmakers already advocating deeper involvement.
Posted: April 25, 2013
INTERNATIONAL. "The U.S. intelligence community assesses with some degree of varying confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons on a small scale in Syria."

MIDDLE EAST BUSINESS COMMENT & ANALYSIS

date:Posted: May 21, 2013
UAE. IMF Regional Economic Outlook Update looks at the implications of the economic roads ahead for the Middle East, North Africa. Afghanistan, and Pakistan (MENAP) region against the backdrop of complex political, social, and economic transitions.
date:Posted: May 21, 2013
UAE. "Growth may be anemic, but it's not at stall speed, nor likely to be. Bonds are the assets which are trading expensively, and stocks - even after their rally - look much cheaper.
date:Posted: May 21, 2013
UAE. Low number of IPOs in GCC due to stricter regulatory measures, lack of liquidity and regional unrest in some MENA countries, according to experts from Deloitte Middle East.
EGYPT. The Egyptian government is facing an increasingly difficult set of economic circumstances that could raise inflationary pressures and lead to further social unrest, says a report by Standard & Poor's Ratings Services
INTERNATIONAL. Nothing new is coming online anytime soon and movement on developing renewable energy resources has been sadly inadequate. The idea that shale reservoirs will lead the US to energy independence will soon enough be recognized as unrealistic hype.



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