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Q&A: Crisis Escalates as International Community Fails Syria

Saturday, May 18, 2013

ATHENS, May 18 (IPS) - With no end in sight for the ongoing two-year war in Syria, the ensuing humanitarian crisis continues to escalate, with over 1 million refugees having fled to neighbouring countries and at least another 3 million displaced within Syria.

Tribes Keep Uneasy Peace in Southern Libya

Friday, May 17, 2013

SOUTHERN LIBYA, May 17 (IPS) - Kaltoum Saleh, 18, is elated to graduate from her overcrowded high school in the remote Saharan town of Ubari, near the Algerian border.

U.N. General Assembly Condemns Syria as Sceptics Multiply

Wednesday, May 15, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (IPS) - When the 193-member General Assembly voted Wednesday to condemn the beleaguered government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, there was an increase in the number of sceptics who neither supported nor opposed the tottering regime in Damascus.

Israeli Attacks on Syria Escape Security Council Scrutiny

Friday, May 10, 2013

UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) - Israel, which has launched three air strikes inside Syria since January this year, has escaped scrutiny or condemnation by a Security Council which remains sharply divided.

Egypt's Political Instability Taking Toll on Its Economy

Friday, May 10, 2013

CAIRO, May 10 (IPS) - Regardless of who is responsible for Egypt's current political impasse – be it the administration of Islamist president Mohamed Morsi or an aggressive secular opposition – local experts are certain of at least one fact: Egypt's dire economic circumstances will not improve without political stability.

Pluralities of Israelis, Palestinians Want Stronger U.S. Peace Role

Friday, May 10, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 10 (IPS) - Amidst a new U.S. effort to revive the long-stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace process, healthy pluralities of both peoples want U.S. President Barack Obama to play a stronger role in resolving their conflict, according to a major new poll released here Thursday by the Pew Research Center.

Hope, Scepticism Over U.S.-Russian Accord on Syria Conference

Thursday, May 09, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 09 (IPS) - The surprise accord reached by the U.S. and Russia in Moscow Tuesday to try to convene an international conference to resolve the two-year-old civil war in Syria as soon as the end of this month has been greeted with equal measures of hope and scepticism.

Decade After Iraq, Right-Wing and Liberal Hawks Reunite Over Syria

Wednesday, May 08, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 08 (IPS) - Ten years after right-wing and liberal hawks came together to push the U.S. into invading Iraq, key members of the two groups appear to be reuniting behind stronger U.S. military intervention in Syria.

Obama Seen Unlikely to Sharply Escalate Intervention in Syria

Saturday, May 04, 2013

WASHINGTON, May 04 (IPS) - Despite renewed pressure by hawks in Congress and the media, U.S. President Barack Obama appears determined to avoid sharply escalating U.S. involvement in the ongoing civil war in Syria.

Hamas ‘Talibanising’ Gaza

Friday, May 03, 2013

RAMALLAH, Occupied West Bank, May 03 (IPS) - The Islamist resistance group Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip, is being accused by its Palestinian Authority (PA) rivals in the West Bank of Talibanising Gaza and turning the coastal territory into a new Muslim Brotherhood neighbourhood.

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