  Oman: Between a rock and a hard place
| On a trip to Oman, Jim Eagles heads to the 'Grand Canyon of Arabia' and navigates sheer drops and rock falls to visit an abandoned cliff face village. | Ali stood on the edge of what Omanis call the Grand Can...
The West rethinks tactics on Syria
The double veto cast by Russia and China in the United Nations Security Council has forced the West to reappraise its approach towards Syria. But Britain, France and America have other ways of turning up the he...
Russia denies threatening Qatar in UN talks
UNITED NATIONS ' Russia's UN ambassador denied reports that he threatened Qatar during contentious negotiations on Syria last week and said a UN resolution could have passed if Western governments had waited se...
Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and re...
Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard Homs
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and re...
Russia's Lavrov seeks peace in Syria as forces bombard
| AMMAN (Reuters) - Russia won a promise from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad on Tuesday to bring an end to bloodshed in Syria, but Western and Arab states acted to isolate Assad further after activists and re...
Freedom from cycle of violence
| While Tunisia seems to be moving slowly towards democratisation — a process fraught with tension and uncertainty — Egypt, Syria, Lebanon and Libya are plunged in crisis. Violence, at varying degre...
Lebanese backing for Syrian brothers
| Attempts by the Syrian opposition to unseat President Bashar Al Assad and his cronies have divided Lebanon. The majority of Lebanese broadly sympathise with anti-regime demonstrators. | The ruling pro-Syrian ...
Putin has misread Syria situation
| If anyone thinks the international opprobrium heaped on Russia and China for vetoing the UN resolution condemning Syria's violent repression of its people is unusual, they should cast their minds back to July...
Kidnaps highlight urgent task for China
| Feb 8, 2012 | Kidnaps highlight urgent task for China | By Mathieu Duchatel and Bates Gill | The dramatic rise in overseas travel and expatriate work by Chinese was punctuated by the ...
Beijing finds vulnerable ally in Berlin
| Feb 8, 2012 | Beijing finds vulnerable ally in Berlin | By Jian Junbo | LONDON - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's two-day visit to China last week came amid significant advances in c...
Gulf crisis ripples across the globe
| Feb 8, 2012 | Gulf crisis ripples across the globe | By Brian M Downing | The United States has shifted its attention away from Iraq, Afghanistan and other parts of the world and firm...
US weighs options as Syrian violence rises
| Feb 8, 2012 | US weighs options as Syrian violence rises | By Samer Araabi | WASHINGTON - Following a failed bid to pass a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for regim...
Syria raises specter of proxy conflict for U.S., Russia
| WASHINGTON — As the Obama administration weighs worst-case scenarios for Syria, one stands out: a civil war that develops into a proxy battle between Arabs and the West on one side, and Russia and ...
Russia pushes Syria reforms as bloodshed mounts
| ELIZABETH A. KENNEDY | Associated Press= BEIRUT (AP) — Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials pushed for reforms Tuesday during an emergency meeting with Syrian P...
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