Tag: Syria

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Merkel and Sarkozy agree on plan for Greece after seven hours Nicolas Sarkozy and Angela Merkel, Europe’s odd couple, in Berlin Wednesday After seven hours of talks that ran late into Wednesday night between

What’s going to happen in Syria? The answer to that question rests on what the forces of freedom and the forces of tyranny are willing to do. With Syria up against a wall, Iran is now looking at provide $5.8

Despite crippling protest that has all but brought its economy to a halt, and international criticism for its reaction to those protests, the Syrian government has pressed ahead with its usual policies. Namely, stockpiling missiles, pursuing an ambitious weapons program,

Events in Syria are moving at an increasingly rapid pace, perhaps reaching critical mass. But you have to wonder whether Obama & Co. has been caught napping. If there is a country in the Arab world where trying to shape

The “National Salvation Congress,” a Saturday meeting of representatives of the opposition to the regime of Syria’s president Bashar al-Assad, failed to form a shadow government, because of factional differences. Unidentified Syrian opposition activists chatting in Istanbul on Saturday Friday

With talk of the “Arab Spring” focused on whether it presages winter or summer, the whiff or metaphoric chlorophyll wafting through the desert misses a truly apt “spring” metaphor. The demonstrations rocking the Arab world are a surface phenomenon, a

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. New terrorist attack in Mumbai, India Police at Opera House bombing site in Mumbai At least 21 people were killed and more than 140 were injured in three coordinated bomb blasts set off by

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Assassination of Karzai’s brother creates Afghanistan power vacuum Ahmad Wali Karzai The most powerful political figure in Afghanistan’s Kandahar province, Ahmad Wali Karzai, half-brother of Afghanistan’s President Hamid Karzai, was assassinated in his home

A New York Supreme Court judge ruled in favor of a group of Israeli terror victims in a lawsuit against the Bank of China on Friday, allowing the case to move forward. The 84 plaintiffs allege that the Bank of

Hundreds of supporters of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad attacked the U.S. Embassy in Damascus on Monday, spray-painting walls with obscenities. Graffiti referring to American ambassador Robert Ford said, “”Ford get out now. The people want to kick out the dog,”

Business Insider (h/t: AOSHQ) has gathered some news off the Reuters Twitter feed: Reuters reports that protesters loyal to Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad have broken into the U.S. embassy compound in Damascus, according to diplomats in the capital city. Reuters

The Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria is fuming because the U.S. amabassador to Syria, Robert Ford, visited the city of Hama on Friday, and was joined by France’s ambassador to Syria, Eric Chevallier, according to Reuters. The two of them

Hizballah has established a vast network of operatives throughout Latin America, and even in North America, which could be used to wage terrorist attacks against American interests if the group or its Iranian patrons see fit, witnesses told a House

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Half a million people protest in Hama, Syria Protests in Hama on Friday (AFP) Despite a bloody, brutal assault on the city of Hama by Syrian security forces earlier this week, half a million

Last Saturday, Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah gave Hezbollah-backed Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati the political equivalent of a public thrashing. Last Thursday, Mikati gave a speech in which he tried to project an image of a leader of a government

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Germany’s Constitutional Court to decide legality of bailouts Germany’s Constitutional Court Another potential problem for the EU’s plans to bail out Greece arose on Tuesday as Germany’s Constitutional Court began hearings on the legality

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hugo Chavez makes triumphant return to Venezuela Chavez hugs his daughters on the balcony of Maraflores Pales in Caracas, July 4, 2011 (Reuters) Well, apparently he fooled everyone. When Hugo Chávez gave his televised

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Yingluck Shinawatra wins decisive victory in Thailand Yingluck Shinawatra (Bangkok Post) Yingluck Shinawatra led her Pheu Thai (“For Thais”) to a decisive victory in Sunday’s elections, making it all but certain that she will

In Brussels, last week the UN debated the creation of a new state to a group of crazed Arabs intent on killing Jews and calling it Palestine. These are the same Arabs who celebrated 9/11 by dancing wildly in the

The United Nations report on the assassination of popular former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri in 2005 was just released. As expected, Hezbollah was implicated in the assassination in which a one-ton truck bomb was detonated, killing 22 people and

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians protest Demonstrators march through the streets of Damascus on July 1 (RFE/RL) The brutal acts of killing, torture and mutilation of peaceful protesters by Bashar al-Assad’s security forces have

For many years, the Left in Israel and throughout the world has upheld the so-called “international community” as the arbiter of all things. From Israel’s right to exist to climate change, from American world leadership to genetically modified crops, the

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com. U.S. delays release of funds to Pakistan Predator drone aircraft The U.S. is delaying the release of $500 million in the Coalition Support Fund (CSF) to Pakistan, and is threatening to cut off Pakistan’s