Unrest

11:09 AM, Mar 17, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

Cairo

Here's a YouTube video of protests outside the Syrian embassy in Cairo today, presumably conducted in sympathy with Syrian demonstrators who have taken to the streets of Damascus and other cities throughout Syria:

2:14 PM, Mar 16, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

This YouTube video shows a protester in Bahrain being shot multiple times at point-blank range by security forces. Warning: this video is extremely graphic.

Will Syria be next?

11:01 AM, Mar 16, 2011 • By AMMAR ABDULHAMID

On February 7, I published a piece in the Guardian that answered the question, Will Syria be next? That is, would Syria be the next Arab country to witness a popular uprising after Tunisia and Egypt?

More from the Arab Uprising: Protests Today in Damascus

11:20 AM, Mar 15, 2011 • By LEE SMITH

It's hard to tell how many protesters are in the streets of the Syrian capital, but it's hardly surprising that, after Egypt and Libya, the regime in Damascus might be next in line. Bashar al-Assad and his security chiefs guessed as much, which is why the last few weeks they warned the foreign and Arab press corps not to cover the protests scheduled for today and the only record we have so far is from YouTube.

4:34 PM, Mar 14, 2011 • By IRFAN AL-ALAWI and STEPHEN SCHWARTZ

March 11, which social-networking Saudi dissidents had chosen for a “Day of Rage,” has come and gone without the emergence—so far—of a massive and turbulent reform movement like those seen in Tunisia, Egypt, and Libya.

10:38 AM, Mar 14, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Former U.N. ambassador John Bolton writes in the Daily that “President Obama’s indecisiveness has unquestionably limited American options, making almost any potential intervention riskier and less likely to succeed.”

11:55 AM, Mar 11, 2011 • By DANIEL HALPER

Steve Hayes, with Pete Wehner and Karen Tumulty, last night on Fox News:

Will Syria be next?

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