29/06/2013 News

The red lines over Syria have not been crossed

/ Alastair Crooke

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This article was originally published in The Guardian on the 16th of June.    The country is already awash with weapons, which are at the limit

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29/06/2013 News

Leveretts and Marandi: “Rouhani Won the Iranian Election. Get Over it.”

/ Mohamad Marandi, Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett

Tags: Elections, Iran, Rouhani

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This article was published on the Leveretts website .  Please click on the embedded video here  to hear Hillary Mann Leverett on CNN on the election of

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29/06/2013

Weekly Comment

This 'Weekly Comment' is produced most Fridays (and occasionally a few days later) by Conflicts Forum with links to key articles published in the regional and international media during the past week.Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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21 – 28 June 201  Egypt is bracing for rival mass demonstrations, amid tight army security, in what is now a deeply fractured nation – with

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22/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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14-21 June 201 Syria: The G8 meeting in Northern Ireland in the end, changed nothing. It concluded with little more than a pious hope to hold a Geneva II meeting by early

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14/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

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7 – 14 June 2013 The polls on the eve of the Iranian Presidential elections (14 June) mark some important shifts in the positioning of the leading

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11/06/2013

Conflicts Forum Weekly Comment

This 'Weekly Comment' is produced most Fridays (and occasionally a few days later) by Conflicts Forum with links to key articles published in the regional and international media during the past week.

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31 May – 7 June 2013   The fall of Qusayr marks a strategic point both for Syria – and for the geo-strategic make-up of

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