Posted on Mon, July 2, 2012 at 19:37 pm CEST
After Syria’s downing of a Turkish aircraft over the eastern Mediterranean, the question is not so much why Syria shot it down as why the two neighbors have become embroiled in a confrontation in the first place… Continue reading
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- McMahon-Husayn Correspondence (1915-1916)
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