Linda Eckert - 6:41 PM - - Public
The United States and more than 60 other countries moved closer on Sunday to direct intervention in the fighting in Syria, with Arab nations pledging...
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Youssef Mohamed
Youssef Mohamed - 4:13 PM - Public
THE uprisings of 2011 fostered hopes for democracy in the Arab world, but also a big fear: what if the old tyrannies go, only to be replaced by new, Islamic ones? This fear has pushed some in Syria, especially its minorities, into a grudging tolerance for the brutal, but at least secular regime. A similar fear has reared its head lately in Egypt and Tunisia, too, as both prepare to write new constitutions. But in each of the three countries, Islamists have responded in quite different ways.
Islamists tackle constitutional matters differently in Egypt, Tunisia and Syria
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Maliki's remarks are latest in dramatic cooling of ties between Qatar, Iraq, which sharply disagree on how to respond to Assad's crackdown on dissent in Syria. Iraq's prime minister on Sunday slammed Sunni-ruled Qatar and Saudi Arabia's stance on arming Syrian rebels, as Doha hosted Baghdad's ...
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