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Iraqi politicians postpone presidential vote amid growing violence
▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/iraqi-politicians-postpone-presidential-vote-amid-growing-violenc

Iraqi lawmakers on Wednesday postponed choosing a new president for their ailing country while air strikes, suicide car bombs and summary executions yielded their daily grim crop of bodies. Parliament adjourned without even broaching the election of a new head of state and agreed to meet again on Thursday, their last chance to pick a new leader before the week-long Eid al-Fitr Muslim holiday. A government air raid on the jihadist-held town of Sharqat nearly 300 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Baghdad killed at least three women and a child, a senior army official told AFP. read more

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Utile rappel des difficultés rencontrées par les oppositions syriennes pour s’organiser et s’unir.

▻http://english.al-akhbar.com/content/2005-2013-syrian-oppositions-many-faces

From 2005 to 2013: The Syrian Opposition’s Many Faces

By: Mohammed Sayyid Rasas
Published Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Since the founding of the Damascus Declaration in 2005, the Syrian opposition has been marked by a divergence of political and national interests. As a result, the opposition has splintered into factions only to re-unify time and time again. Al-Akhbar considers this tumultuous history to better understand the opposition’s most recent incarnations.
There are several junctures in the history of party-based opposition in Syria. The Damascus Declaration was formed on 16 October 2005 and became the largest opposition gathering in the history of the Baath party rule, which began on 8 March 1963. It included Islamists, liberals, and Arab and Kurdish nationalists, in addition to the Marxist Party for Communist Action. The broad coalition was built on the prospects of change in Syria amidst a climate of tension between the US and Syria.
Without looking into these stops, one cannot comprehend the process of political performance of the Syrian opposition in the period following the outbreak of the Syrian crisis.However, during the meeting of the National Council of the Damascus Declaration in December 2007, cracks began to appear.
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