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Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 27, 2013
Syrian refugee crisis pushes fragile Lebanon closer to breaking point
As you come through the military checkpoints on the way into Wadi Khaled, local mobile phones bleep with an unsolicited text: "The Ministry of Tourism welcomes you to Syria."
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 25, 2013
A better way to end Syria's civil war
The political path to peace in Syria should give intimidated third-party groups a voice by bringing the many segments of society together, regardless of which side of the conflict they are on.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics / ANALYSIS
Oct 23, 2013
The reasons long-time allies Saudi Arabia and the U.S. are moving apart
Ever since the United States and Saudi Arabia fell into something of an alliance in the late 1970s, the world's most unlikely partnership has had lots of down moments.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 20, 2013
Banish the notion of a military solution in Syria
Some people now warn of a 'Lebanonization' of Syria — its partition into quasi-independent regions — which could call the entire post-World War I Middle Eastern state system.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 19, 2013
Well-funded extremists bleed Syria's moderate rebel groups of fighters
In a medical clinic packed with injured Syrian rebels, 23-year-old Mohammed Hadhoud lies waiting for an operation to remove a machine-gun bullet lodged in his spine. His family cannot afford the bill, and the moderate Islamist brigade he fights with has refused to fully cover the cost.
COMMENTARY / World
Oct 15, 2013
The narrative plot against Syria
America must focus on unifying Syria's bickering rebels before it can persuade Syrians that the campaign to destroy chemical weapons is not aimed at imposing a neo-colonial order.
WORLD
Oct 11, 2013
OPCW bags Nobel Prize for fight against chemical arms
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons is awarded the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize, just weeks after a deadly gas attack in Syria sparked international condemnation.
EDITORIALS
Oct 8, 2013
Destroying Syria's chemical weapons
A team of nearly two-dozen chemical weapons specialists begin the critical, and Herculean, task of dismantling Syria's chemical weapons program and stockpiles by yearend.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 29, 2013
Politics and pride drive Putin's anti-U.S. shift
First, Vladimir Putin accused Hillary Rodham Clinton of inciting protests against him at the end of 2011. The next fall, the Russian president threw the U.S. Agency for International Development out of his country. Then he decided civic groups that get U.S. financing must be foreign agents.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 26, 2013
Syrian rebel groups ally to create Islamic state, reject West
U.S. hopes of winning more influence over Syria's fractious rebel movement faded Wednesday after 11 of the biggest armed factions repudiated the Western-backed opposition coalition and announced the formation of a new alliance dedicated to creating an Islamic state.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 25, 2013
West gets a second chance for peace in Syria
he last-minute deal to put Syria's chemical weapons under international control gives the West, which had run out of good options, a second chance to reach peace in Syria.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 22, 2013
Syria Islamists rake in funds
Syria's Islamist extremists are getting a fresh torrent of cash from Arab donors hoping for an uprising to erupt across the region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Sep 21, 2013
Sarin victims face 'slow death' as regime blocks aid
A month after rockets carrying chemical payloads rained down on the suburbs of Damascus, doctors say hundreds are still suffering the ill effects of sarin poisoning. But the horror of the gas attack is being overtaken by continuing shelling and airstrikes, as well as by malnutrition and disease.
Japan Times
WORLD / Politics
Sep 20, 2013
Putin: arch manipulator on a mission to check U.S. will
In novelist Victor Pelevin's pungent satire on contemporary Russia, "The Sacred Book of the Werewolf," its narrator, a 2,000-year-old shape-shifter, kisses Alexander, a brutish but alluring officer with the FSB, the Russian security service — who is a werewolf, like all his colleagues. In doing so,...
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JAPAN / Politics
Sep 20, 2013
U.N. food aid official pleads for more Syrian aid to ward off catastrophe
A U.N. World Food Program emergency coordinator for Syria urged Japan and the rest of the international community Friday to come up with more funding to supply food aid to Syrians both inside and outside the country.

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