" Al-Watan" Pro-Assad newspapers said that the preliminary estimates for the recent salary increase will cost the Syrian Treasury 86 billion Syrian pounds, an amount approximately 6% of the total funds for the budget of 2013 ....
The Damascus neighborhood known as Mezze 86 is a dense, dilapidated warren of narrow hillside streets adorned with posters bearing the face of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad. The presidential palace is nearby, and the area is...
The European Union said it supports political dialogue for Syria but noted its ongoing concern about the regional threat from civil war. The EU said it supports U.S.-Russian plans to find a political solution to the crisis in multilateral talks in Geneva. A series of U.N. reports in June...
I'm in Oslo to give a seminar and a public lecture at the Norwegian Institute for Defense Studies, and I'm looking forward to hearing how world politics looks from a Nordic perspective. I haven't been to Norway since 2009, when my visit coincided with the Norwegian Nobel Committee's surprising...
