Is the U.S. About to Dump Syria?
michaeltotten.com 9/20/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain reports in Kuwait's Arabic-language daily Al Rai that the Obama administration has quietly decided not to return an ambassador to Syria as promised. "He quotes unnamed officials":http://alraimedia.com/Alrai/Article.aspx?id=155949 ...

Is the Obama Administration Fed Up with Syria?
beirut2bayside.blogspot.com 9/15/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain has a very interesting report in the Kuwaiti Al-Rai today (Arabic): As a result of its frustration with Assad's negative behavior, Abdul-Hussain writes, the Obama administration has decided against sending its ambassador back to ...

Pelosi to Syria.
thinkprogress.org 8/18/2009 — Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) is set to visit Syria, a country President Bush has shunned, “ despite being asked by the administration not to go .” “In our view, it is not the right time to have these sort of high-profile visitors to Syria,” State ...

Nancy Pelosi's Syria Visit Sparks Criticism For Bungled Shuttle Diplomacy
foxnews.com 10/4/2009 — Thursday, April 05, 2007 WASHINGTON— An apparently botched message during a widely discouraged visit by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Syria this week has U.S. officials criticizing rogue efforts at diplomacy among U.S. politicians. State Department ...

Obama Will Send Envoy to Syria, Officials Say
nytimes.com 6/23/2009 — WASHINGTON — President Obama has decided to send an ambassador to Syria after a four-year hiatus, two senior administration officials said on Tuesday evening, in a sign of the deepening engagement between the Obama administration and the Syrian ...

Syria, Israel, and Water: Prelude to a War?
pajamasmedia.com 8/20/2009 — Syria, due to horrible mismanagement and siphoning by Turkey, is in dire need of a water source. Israel has one.

Is the U.S. About to Dump Syria?
commentarymagazine.com 9/21/2009 — Hussain Abdul-Hussain reports in Kuwait’s Arabic-language daily Al Rai that the Obama administration has quietly decided not to return an ambassador to Syria as promised. He quotes unnamed officials who say president Bashar Assad is blackmailing ...

Venezuelan president bashes Israel in Syria trip
breitbart.com 9/4/2009 — DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez attacked Israel Thursday during his visit to Syria, calling it an imperialist nation that annihilates other people. Chavez comments came during a news conference with his Syrian counterpart ...

Syria’s Imelda Marcos on Facebook; Check Out the Shoes
pajamasmedia.com 7/27/2009 — It’s not just the dissidents of the Middle East who are networking on the net. The First Lady (or, under the circumstances, the First Tyrantess) of Syria, Asma Al-Assad, appears to have posted high-fashion photos of herself on Facebook . It ...

No Peace Without Syria
michaeltotten.com 8/31/2009 — “No war without Egypt, no peace without Syria.” — Henry Kissinger Javier Solana, the European Union foreign policy chief, "flew to Damascus this weekend":http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1111091.html to cajole Syria into re-entering peace talks ...

Clinton: US wants Israel settlement halt 'forever' (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 27 days ago
AP - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S stance toward Israeli settlement building to worried Arab allies on Wednesday, saying Washington does not accept the legitimacy of the West Bank enclaves and wants to see their ...

Clinton: Israel must stop building settlements — msnbc.com: Politics 27 days ago
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton defended the U.S. stance toward Israeli settlements to worried Arab allies on Wednesday.

Resolution seeks Gaza war crimes investigations (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 27 days ago
AP - The U.N. General Assembly is likely to approve a resolution that urges Israel and the Palestinians to carry out independent investigations of alleged war crimes during their conflict in Gaza last winter within three months and calls for ...

White House monitoring crackdown in Iran (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 26 days ago
AP - The White House on Wednesday expressed concern about a violent crackdown on anti-government protesters in Iran as President Barack Obama said he wanted U.S. and Iran to move beyond "suspicion, mistrust and confrontation."

Palestinians seek Gaza war crimes justice (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News 26 days ago
AP - The Palestinians on Wednesday warned Israel they will seek justice for war crimes, allegedly committed during last winter's Gaza conflict, in the U.N. Security Council and through the International Criminal Court.