Tag Archives: Syria

Egypt

| February 5, 2011

Egypt – Pipeline fire erupts, disrupting gas flow to Jordan and sending warning to Israel

Maliki: Iran, Syria are arming Iraqi terror groups

| February 3, 2011

In 2009, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al Malik accused both Iran and Syria of arming terror groups operating inside Iraq. Now AFP has the story, via the Wikileaks cables: Maliki’s comments to then-US ambassador to Baghdad Christopher Hill came in the midst of a year-long diplomatic row with Damascus that prompted both Iraq and Syria […]

Egypt

| February 2, 2011

Six countries in the Arab world where ‘winds of change’ are blowing

WikiLeaks

| February 2, 2011

WikiLeaks: tension in the Middle East and Asia has ‘direct potential’ to lead to nuclear war

Egypt

| February 1, 2011

Egypt, Jordan, and the Arab world’s ‘watershed’ moment

Competing interests: The United States, Iraq, and Iraq’s neighbors

| January 22, 2011

On December 5, The New York Times noted that while “Saddam Hussein’s Iraq was a regional menace that sent shudders through its neighbors,” today Iraq finds it difficult to restrain the ambitions of countries that share its borders — particularly as the US prepares to withdraw. The Times notes that this meddling by Iraq’s neighbors […]

Iran

| January 11, 2011

Only a threat of force will halt Iran nukes: Israel

Iraq

| November 26, 2010

Iraq’s troubles drive out refugees who came back