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Opinion: Syria and the Idea Aiming to Halt the War

by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Mar 23, 2016 | Opinion

There isn’t a decisive winner or loser in the Syrian crisis which has become out of control and transnational. In a world that is supposed to be governed by norms and international laws, this weakness and failure has pushed the superpowers to what we see them doing...

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The British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond shakes hands with a Kurdish Peshmerga fighter during a welcoming ceremony held at a training camp supervised by British officers in Erbil, northern Iraq yesterday (AFP)

Syrian Kurds Open the Door of Partition With Their Declaration of Federalism

by Caroline Akoum | Mar 18, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

In a step considered by followers of developments in political and military affairs in Syria as a possible prelude to partition, Syria’s Kurds announced the establishment of a federal system in areas under their control in northern Syria yesterday, an idea that...

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The High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini in Brussels yesterday before she entered the European Parliament’s Foreign Affairs Committee’s session on the conflict in Syria (EPA)

Washington Announces That Syria is Threatened With Partition

by Caroline Akoum | Feb 24, 2016 | Latest News, Middle East

In accordance with a warning often expressed by many about the partition of Syria, the US Secretary of State John Kerry told the Senate foreign relations committee yesterday that “it may be difficult to keep Syria whole if it takes much longer to end the fighting”. He...