Informed resources in Damascus said that the American school in Damascus has received notification regarding teachers who hold American citizenship to leave Syria within 48 hours. The closing of the school in Damascus is in response to the U.S. raid carried out by U.S. forces on the twenty-sixth of last month, along with the Syrian Government's decision to close the American cultural center.
[T]his blacklist has long since superseded its original military-related purpose and is now Washington’s means of tracking and suppressing China’s top enterprises.
[W]hat the Switzerland negotiations ultimately lead to may help determine who the next U.S. president will be, as much as they will define the rules of the game in the Middle East.
[W]hat the Switzerland negotiations ultimately lead to may help determine who the next U.S. president will be, as much as they will define the rules of the game in the Middle East.
The Beijing summit did not produce a major agreement between the great powers on the region, but it firmly established that Middle Eastern crises are now deeply tied to the great-power dialogue.