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How the World Stacks Up on Syria
As the international community mulls how to respond to the crisis in Syria, it faces a complex and changing web of geopolitical alliances, heated rivalries and strategic interests. Here's a closer look at the key international players.
November 8, 2011
Syria's Secretive Ruling Minority Sect
Because their secret tenets and practices are known only to the few males deemed worthy to undergo instruction, the Alawites, Syria's long-persecuted minority sect, remain a mystery to most.
November 8, 2011
Exiled Dissident Ausama Monajed: "The End of the Regime Is Very Close"
As a student in Syria under the Assad regime, Ausama Monajed was arrested and interrogated by security forces several times. The last time he was detained was in 2004, at which point he says he had no choice but to leave the country.
November 8, 2011
Joshua Landis: "I Don't See Light at the End of the Tunnel."
The director of the Center for Middle East Studies and an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma, Joshua Landis writes an influential blog called Syria Comment. He warns there is a very high potential that Syria's uprising "will turn into a very dark and tough ethnic sectarian fight, the way it did in Lebanon and Iraq."
November 8, 2011
Anthony Shadid: Time Is Running Out for a Better Future for Syria
"We’re seeing a government that relies almost solely on repression to keep itself in power," The New York Times' Beirut bureau chief tells FRONTLINE.
November 8, 2011
"Gutsy Reporting Takes Viewers Right to the Edge of the Danger Zone"
Calling it a chilling “you-are-almost-there primer on the Syrian uprising,” Newsday’s Verne Gay gives FRONTLINE’s two-part Syria special airing tonight an “A.”
November 8, 2011
Anthony Shadid: "In Assad's Syria, There Is No Imagination"
The country is "rendered in their image, haunted by their phobias and ordered by their machinations," Anthony Shadid writes of the Assad regime.
November 8, 2011
20 Years After HIV Announcement, Magic Johnson Emphasizes: "I Am Not Cured"
The announcement, 20 years ago today, came as a shock.
November 7, 2011
Inside the Underground Lives of Syrian Activists
Reporter Ramita Navai, who spent two weeks undercover with Syrian activists in September, at one point found herself trapped in a safe house for 72 hours while militias loyal to the government raided the house next door.
November 4, 2011