Archive for the 'Saudi' Category

Saudi Arabia, Shi’ism and the Illusion of Reform – by Robert G. Rabil

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, October 30th, 2018

Syria, Deterrence of Chemical Weapons and U.S. Policy in the Middle East – By Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 12th, 2018

US Policy Toward the Levant, Kurds and Turkey – By Joshua Landis 

Posted by Joshua on Monday, January 15th, 2018

America’s Failure – and Russia and Iran’s Success – in Syria’s Cataclysmic Civil War – By Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, January 12th, 2017

“What the Rebel Loss of Aleppo Will Mean for Syria,” by Landis, Heras, Lund & Abdulhamid

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 29th, 2016

The Ten Most Important Developments in Syria in 2015

Posted by Aron Lund on Sunday, January 3rd, 2016

The Doha Congress: Negotiating a Return of the Iraqi Baath Party?

Posted by Aron Lund on Saturday, September 5th, 2015

Syria in Limbo: Neither Reunification nor Partition Are Yet Possible

Posted by Matthew Barber on Sunday, May 24th, 2015

“Obama Approval of Manpads for Rebels Would Violate US Agreements, Policy, and Endanger Airliners,” by James McMichael

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 29th, 2014

“Why Syria’s Assad heads to Geneva from a position of strength,” by Joshua Landis

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2014

al-Nusra, al-Raqqa, Calls for Jihad, River of Death

Posted by Matthew Barber on Thursday, March 14th, 2013

Wiki Leaks: First Cut

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, November 28th, 2010

More WikiLeaks – Kerry: “Israel should return Golan”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, November 1st, 2010

Will rising tensions in the Middle East lead to another catastrophic war?

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010

What Effect will Turkey’s Switch to Israeli Opponent have on Syria and the Regional Balance of Power?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 25th, 2010

Will Israel Flex Its Muscle Further?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

Clinton to Damascus?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, March 1st, 2010

The Case for Syria

Posted by Alex on Tuesday, February 9th, 2010

Economy Grows at 4%ish; Saudi Handshaking; Israeli-Syria Verbal Jousting

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 8th, 2010

Al-Waleed Bin Talal: “Assad… we are getting him back in the fold”

Posted by Joshua on Friday, January 22nd, 2010

Turkey’s “Zero Crescents, Zero Axises, and Zero problems” Foreign Policy is Catching on.

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009

Netanyahu Talks Peace for the Press; Syrian Subsidies

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, November 12th, 2009

The Turkey-Syria-Iran Alliance Heats Up; The Economy, Tepid

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, October 28th, 2009

Syria’s Four Seas strategy, by Yoav Stern

Posted by Alex on Thursday, October 22nd, 2009

Alex on Saudi Arabia; Hamidi on Turkey

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 11th, 2009

Can Obama and Sarkozy Succeed?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 2nd, 2009

Is Syrian-US Engagement at an End?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 17th, 2009

Syria Seeks to Separate US Relationship from Arab-Israeli Conflict

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, August 20th, 2009

News Round Up (17 July 2009)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 17th, 2009

Syria Wants Center Stage

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 12th, 2009

Muallem: “Yes, we want the Golan Back on a Silver Platter.”

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

Will Syria Serve Up Iran on a Silver Platter?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

News Round Up (1 July 2009)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, July 2nd, 2009

News Round Up (30 June 2009)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, June 30th, 2009

“Hillary is Wrong About Settlements,” Elliott Abrams & Saudi Arabia

Posted by Joshua on Friday, June 26th, 2009

Nasrallah’s Rhetoric Directed East or West?

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 15th, 2009

Sanctions on the Table?

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 5th, 2009

“Middle East Peace and the U.S.-Saudi Relationship:,” by Lippmann

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

Asad, “An ambassador is important… There is nothing real yet.”

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, February 18th, 2009

Balancing “Change” and “Prudence” will be an arduous process for President Obama

Posted by Alex on Monday, February 2nd, 2009

Will Syria Benefit from Israel’s Invasion of Gaza?

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 21st, 2009

Will Gaza Bring Reconciliation to Divided Arab Leaders?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, January 20th, 2009

Gaza Killings Divide Arab Countries Further

Posted by Joshua on Monday, December 29th, 2008

Top 5 reasons why Israel is attacking Gaza

Posted by Alex on Sunday, December 28th, 2008

Syrian TV shows men ‘confessing’ to deadly bomb blast

Posted by Alex on Thursday, November 6th, 2008

Comments from Jihad Makdissi

Posted by Alex on Friday, October 31st, 2008

Flipping Peace Tracks Again?

Posted by Alex on Wednesday, October 29th, 2008

News Round Up (25 Oct. 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, October 25th, 2008

News Round Up (17 Oct. 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, October 17th, 2008

Syria plays hardball with the Saudis, by Sami Moubayed

Posted by Alex on Thursday, October 9th, 2008

US to Lift Sanctions on Syria? More on Syrian Military North of Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, October 5th, 2008

The Bombing and More.

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, September 28th, 2008

News Round Up (18 Aug. 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, August 18th, 2008

Building Towards Peace

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 2nd, 2008

News Round Up (20 July 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 20th, 2008

“Interview with King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia” by Alix Van Buren

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

“Syria’s Assad Says More Groundwork Needed Before Olmert Meeting”

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 19th, 2008

“It’s Time to Talk to Syria” by Kerry and Hagel

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, June 5th, 2008

News Round Up (2 June 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Monday, June 2nd, 2008

News Round Up (31 May 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, May 31st, 2008

Observations of a German journalist in Beirut

Posted by Alex on Sunday, May 18th, 2008

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act | Part II

Posted by Alex on Friday, May 16th, 2008

Syrian Media – The Challenge and the Need to Act

Posted by Alex on Thursday, May 15th, 2008

Brother Accuses France of Killing Siddiq: US Accuses French and Swiss of Breaking Spirit of Sanctions

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, April 9th, 2008

Summitry (26 March 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Syrians and Lebanese Respond to Statement that “Syria Needs to Articulate a Clear Lebanon Policy”

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 20th, 2008

News Round Up (11 March 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 11th, 2008

The United States presents Cinerama in Damascus, 1954

Posted by Alex on Sunday, March 9th, 2008

News Roundup (8 March 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 9th, 2008

Syria to invite Lebanon, Saudi Arabia to summit

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Saudi Arabia Calls on its nationals to leave Lebanon

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 1st, 2008

Syria Pooh Poohs U.S.-Saudi Effort to End Influence of Syria and over 50% of Lebanese

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 1st, 2008

News Roundup (28 February 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, February 29th, 2008

Syria’s Stand on Lebanon: Saudi Arabia Withdraws Ambassador From Damascus

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, February 27th, 2008

Foreign Militants Crossing Syria-Iraq Border Drop to 40-50 a Month

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 19th, 2008

News Roundup (23 January 2008)

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 23rd, 2008

(Saudi) Money can’t buy you love … or success

Posted by Alex on Thursday, January 17th, 2008

The soldiers of truth are back

Posted by Alex on Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Hassan al-Quwatli, son of President Shukri al-Quwatli, Dies in Saudi Arabia

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Best of Comments on US Opening to Syria

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, December 4th, 2007

How the Lebanese Delegation was Blindsided at Annapolis

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, December 1st, 2007

Announcing Creative Syria Forum’s November 2007 topic: Syria’s RegionalPolicies

Posted by Alex on Sunday, November 18th, 2007

News Roundup (31 Oct. 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Ray Close on the Mysterious Israeli Air Attack on Syria

Posted by Joshua on Monday, October 15th, 2007

Saudi king prays with Rif’at al-Asad in Mecca

Posted by Alex on Friday, October 12th, 2007

Changing Course with Syria

Posted by Alex on Thursday, October 11th, 2007

Nasrallah calls on Saudi Arabia to boycott the upcoming Middle East conference

Posted by Alex on Saturday, October 6th, 2007

News Round Up (27 Sept. 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, September 27th, 2007

Rice Trys to Gin Up Enthusiasm for Her Peacemaking

Posted by Joshua on Monday, September 24th, 2007

Jihadists and the Syrian Border – Saudi Press

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007

Sharaa Statement of Syria’s Foreign Policy

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, August 18th, 2007

Syria’s Policy of Sitting on its Hands

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 29th, 2007

News Round Up (27 July 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Friday, July 27th, 2007

The truth about Syria?

Posted by Alex on Wednesday, July 25th, 2007

Saudi Jihadists in Iraq far Outnumber Others

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, July 15th, 2007

Bernard Gwertzman (CFR consulting editor) interviews Joshua Landis

Posted by Alex on Monday, May 14th, 2007

News Round Up (26 April 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, April 26th, 2007

Seymour Hersh: “We may never find out who ordered Hariri assassination”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, April 2nd, 2007

Pelosi’s Trip to Damascus

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 31st, 2007

Saudi Arabia’s New Peace Proposal?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, March 30th, 2007

The Arab League Summit: Arabism is Back – Syria is In

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, March 29th, 2007

“Farid Ghadry, Syria’s Chalabi: From Washington to Damascus,” by Salim Abraham

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, March 25th, 2007

Counting Lebanon’s Shiites as Slaves: Why the Lebanon Deal is Obstructed

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 10th, 2007

Has a Lebanon Deal Been Clinched?

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, March 6th, 2007

Saudis and Syrians …Brothers or Rivals?

Posted by Alex on Monday, March 5th, 2007

News Round Up (3 March 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Saturday, March 3rd, 2007

News Round Up (27 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 27th, 2007

Seymour Hersh, “The Administration’s New Policy on Terrorism”

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 26th, 2007

Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia: Three’s a Crowd

Posted by Alex on Friday, February 23rd, 2007

Will Saudi Arabia Solve America’s Problems?

Posted by Joshua on Monday, February 19th, 2007

News Round Up (13 February 2007)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

CIA Gets the Go-Ahead to Fight Hizbullah

Posted by Joshua on Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

More on the Bandar Affair

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 24th, 2006

Could the US be Planning Covert Action in Lebanon and beyond?

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 22nd, 2006

News Round Up (12 December 2006)

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, December 12th, 2006

“What Motivates Syria,” by Imad Moustapha

Posted by Joshua on Sunday, December 10th, 2006

Encouraging Sectarian War as a Means to Bring Down Asad

Posted by Joshua on Friday, December 8th, 2006

V.P. Farouq al-Sharaa on the Baker Report & Iraq, Lebanon, and Palestine

Posted by Joshua on Thursday, December 7th, 2006

“SYRIA: Regime interests dictate regional policies,” by Oxford Analytica

Posted by Joshua on Monday, December 4th, 2006

“Will Washington agree to Riyadh’s initiative on Lebanon?” by al-Amine

Posted by Joshua on Monday, November 6th, 2006

British Envoy Visits Asad

Posted by Joshua on Tuesday, October 31st, 2006