by Hannah Lucinda Smith | Jun 3, 2014 | Features
Reyhanlı, Asharq Al-Awsat—Few people, either in or outside Syria, expect the Syrian presidential election to hold any surprises. “It is a sham election,” Anthony Franks, a Middle East expert with consulting firm Mars Omega, told me a few weeks ago as we discussed the...
by Hannah Lucinda Smith | May 17, 2013 | Features
Antakya, Asharq Al-Awsat—On the first day, the protests were small and spontaneous: two hundred people led down the main street by a man with a microphone. On the second day, they were bigger, and they circled the town center attracting curious crowds of onlookers...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 16, 2013 | Middle East
London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Turkish prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will meet President Obama in Washington today, with the crisis in Syria expected to be high on the agenda. While the visit was also promoted as an attempt to boost economic ties and persuade...
by Karabekir Akkoyunlu | May 16, 2013 | Majalla Blogs
On May 11, two powerful car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanlı on the Syrian border, killing at least 51 people. This was not only the worst cross-border spillover of the Syrian conflict to date—it was also the deadliest terror attack in Turkey’s recent...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 11, 2013 | Middle East
Reyhanli, Reuters—Twin car bombs killed around 40 people and wounded many more in a Turkish town near the Syrian border on Saturday and Turkey said it suspected Syrian involvement. The bombing increased fears that Syria’s civil war was dragging in neighboring...
