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		<title>In Syria, we need to bargain with the devil</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/07/in-syria-we-need-to-bargain-with-the-devil/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nicholas Noe writes: Almost one year after anti-government protests began in Syria, a disaster of enormous moral and strategic proportions is fast approaching. Full-scale civil war is now likely. And a multifront, conventional and possibly unconventional war ignited by events in the Levant is also increasingly plausible. However, many in the West, in some Arab [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria: death and division thwart hopes of opposition unity</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/07/syria-death-and-division-thwart-hopes-of-opposition-unity/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/07/syria-death-and-division-thwart-hopes-of-opposition-unity/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:54:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports: Syria&#8217;s opposition is struggling to respond to the intensifying crackdown by the regime and the failure of international efforts to secure a peaceful outcome. The proliferation of different groups, personal rivalries, incompatible agendas and failing strategies is making it hard for western and Arab governments, who would like to see the sort [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria between two massacres: Hama&#8217;s memory endures</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/syria-between-two-massacres-hamas-memory-endures/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/syria-between-two-massacres-hamas-memory-endures/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 21:16:43 +0000</pubDate>
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				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Wadah Khanfar writes: While Russia and China were using their veto to abort a UN security council resolution against the Syrian regime, the news of a massacre in Homs came thick and fast. In an unprecedented escalation, the Syrian regime sought to exploit the international hesitancy to have a bloody showdown with its opposition. This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russia’s UN veto gives Syria ‘license to kill’</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/russia%e2%80%99s-un-veto-gives-syria-%e2%80%98license-to-kill%e2%80%99/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/russia%e2%80%99s-un-veto-gives-syria-%e2%80%98license-to-kill%e2%80%99/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 18:00:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Bloomberg reports: Failure by the United Nations Security Council to deliver global condemnation of Syria gives President Bashar al-Assad room to continue his 11-month crackdown on protesters. While 13 countries in the 15-member Security Council voted yesterday to adopt a proposal by Western and Arab countries to end the bloodshed, Russia used its veto to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. embassy in Syria halts operations as violence flares</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/u-s-embassy-in-syria-halts-operations-as-violence-flares/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/06/u-s-embassy-in-syria-halts-operations-as-violence-flares/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:45:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Anthony Shadid reports: The United States closed its embassy in Syria on Monday and withdrew all staff there in response to escalating mayhem in the country and what American officials called the Syrian government’s unbridled repression of an 11-month-old uprising that has become the bloodiest conflict in the Arab Spring revolts. Clearly laying the blame [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s most senior defector: Assad&#8217;s army is close to collapse</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/05/syrias-most-senior-defector-assads-army-is-close-to-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/05/syrias-most-senior-defector-assads-army-is-close-to-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Feb 2012 19:55:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Telegraph reports: In his first full-length newspaper interview, General Mustafa al-Sheikh, who has taken refuge in Turkey, gave an apocalyptic insider&#8217;s view of the state of the regime – despite its attempt to reassert control this weekend. He said only a third of the army was at combat readiness due to defections or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrians storm embassies after uprising&#8217;s worst violence</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/syrians-storm-embassies-after-uprisings-worst-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/syrians-storm-embassies-after-uprisings-worst-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 16:00:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: Syrian demonstrators ransacked their country&#8217;s embassy in Cairo and broke into the missions in London and Kuwait, part of protests around the world against the worst bloodshed of the 11 month uprising against President Bashar al-Assad. The Cairo crowd smashed furniture and equipment and set fire to parts of the embassy building overnight. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Syria&#8217;s media blackout</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/video-syrias-media-blackout/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/video-syrias-media-blackout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 15:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<title>Syria: over 200 dead after &#8216;massacre&#8217; in Homs</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/syria-over-200-dead-after-massacre-in-homs/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/02/04/syria-over-200-dead-after-massacre-in-homs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports: More than 200 people were reported to have been killed yesterday in the Syrian city of Homs as security forces continued their efforts to take back opposition-held areas on the eve of a vote by the UN security council on a much-disputed resolution on the country. Hundreds more were killed in shelling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syrian army cracks down on protests in Damascus suburbs</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/29/syrian-army-cracks-down-on-protests-in-damascus-suburbs/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/29/syrian-army-cracks-down-on-protests-in-damascus-suburbs/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 03:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Los Angeles Times reports: Syrian tanks and troops moved Sunday to crush resistance in the rebellious suburbs of Damascus, opposition groups reported, bringing the bloody battle that has ravaged the nation for months to the doorsteps of the nation&#8217;s capital. The fierce fighting reported outside Damascus was the latest sign that Syria&#8217;s armed insurgency [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Video: Will the West interfere in Syria?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/26/video-will-the-west-interfere-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/26/video-will-the-west-interfere-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<title>Video: Is it time to increase the pressure on Syria?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/22/video-is-it-time-to-increase-the-pressure-on-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/22/video-is-it-time-to-increase-the-pressure-on-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:40:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=30284</guid>
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		<title>Syria: beyond the wall of fear, a state in slow-motion collapse</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/16/syria-beyond-the-wall-of-fear-a-state-in-slow-motion-collapse/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/16/syria-beyond-the-wall-of-fear-a-state-in-slow-motion-collapse/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jan 2012 20:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=29969</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ian Black reports: Sipping tea in a smoky Damascus cafe, Adnan and his wife, Rima, look ordinary enough: an unobtrusive, thirtysomething couple winding down at the end of the working day in one of the tensest cities in the world. But like much else in the Syrian capital, they are not what they first seem: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The cost of Syria&#8217;s crackdown</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/15/the-cost-of-syrias-crackdown/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/15/the-cost-of-syrias-crackdown/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2012 17:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Syria]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=29899</guid>
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		<title>Videos: Patrick Seale and Nir Rosen on Syria</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/11/videos-patrick-seale-and-nir-rosen-on-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/11/videos-patrick-seale-and-nir-rosen-on-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:10:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Arab Awakening]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=29624</guid>
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		<title>Assad&#8217;s combative speech: A method to the tyranny?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/assads-combative-speech-a-method-to-the-tyranny/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/assads-combative-speech-a-method-to-the-tyranny/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:40:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time reports: It was a fiercely combative and confident Syrian President Bashar al-Assad who took to the podium of Damascus University on Tuesday to deliver his fourth speech since unrest erupted in his troubled land last March. His manner and his words made one thing clear: he&#8217;s not going anywhere. In many ways, he has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Israel prepares for fall of Assad, Syria refugees</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/israel-prepares-for-fall-of-assad-syria-refugees/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/israel-prepares-for-fall-of-assad-syria-refugees/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:30:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reuters reports: Israel is making preparations for the fall of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and a flood of refugees from his minority Alawite sect into the Golan Heights, Israel&#8217;s military chief told a parliamentary committee on Tuesday. &#8220;Assad cannot continue to hold onto power,&#8221; a committee spokesman quoted Lieutenant-General Benny Gantz as saying. &#8220;On the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s Bashar Assad says he won&#8217;t step aside</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/syrias-bashar-assad-says-he-wont-step-aside/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/10/syrias-bashar-assad-says-he-wont-step-aside/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 13:33:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Atlantic Wire: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad delivered a defiant televised address on Tuesday saying that he will not step down and will not institute new democratic reforms, insisting that unrest in his country is the work of a foreign conspiracy. According to Al-Jazeera&#8217;s translations, Assad said that there are no real revolutionaries in his country, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria, the &#8216;Zio-American plot&#8217;, and Conflicts Forum</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/09/syria-the-zio-american-plot-and-conflicts-forum/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/09/syria-the-zio-american-plot-and-conflicts-forum/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 21:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Paul Woodward</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://warincontext.org/?p=29409</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[On its website (which I created) Conflicts Forum is referred to as &#8220;an international movement which engages with Islamist movements&#8221; &#8212; a partially correct but somewhat misleading statement. Conflicts Forum does indeed engage Islamist movements &#8212; principally Hezbollah and Hamas. It does have an international element &#8212; evident in its advisory board. But by no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria&#8217;s protesters are on their own</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/09/syrias-protesters-are-on-their-own/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/09/syrias-protesters-are-on-their-own/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jan 2012 19:15:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brian Whitaker writes: The Arab League&#8217;s much-heralded meeting to review the &#8220;progress&#8221; of its monitoring operation in Syria came and went on Sunday with barely a whimper. A few more monitors will be sent but unless Syria agrees to an extension, which seems unlikely, the mission will end on 19 January with the presentation of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Syria: Has the Arab League failed in Syria?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/08/inside-syria-has-the-arab-league-failed-in-syria/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/08/inside-syria-has-the-arab-league-failed-in-syria/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:35:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>News Sources</dc:creator>
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		<title>In Syria, another Friday, another Damascus bomb</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/06/in-syria-another-friday-another-damascus-bomb/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:15:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Daily Telegraph reports: At least 25 people were reportedly killed or wounded after a suicide bomber blew himself up in central Damascus on Friday, the second such attack on the Syrian capital in a fortnight. The bomb was detonated at a set of traffic lights in the historic district of al-Midan, just south of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Syria opposition lacks solidarity</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/04/syria-opposition-lacks-solidarity/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 15:30:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AFP reports: Syria&#8217;s opposition was in disarray Wednesday, struggling to present a united front in the face of a protest crackdown whose death toll rose again despite the presence of Arab League monitors. Western powers have repeatedly called for the Syrian opposition to put aside differences and join forces in their bid to oust President [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Inside Syria &#8211; Is the Arab League mission doomed to fail?</title>
		<link>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/01/inside-syria-is-the-arab-league-mission-doomed-to-fail/</link>
		<comments>http://warincontext.org/2012/01/01/inside-syria-is-the-arab-league-mission-doomed-to-fail/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 22:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
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