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...Although the U.S. still accuses Syria of supporting militant groups in the region, the appointment of a new ambassador is recognition of a new spirit of partial cooperation from Damascus. Since the waning days of the Bush era, Syria has helped tighten its border with Iraq to prevent jihadists from crossing; it has for the first time recognized Lebanon's sovereignty by opening an embassy in Beirut (Damascus has traditionally regarded its neighbor as a Syrian province illegitimately turned into a separate entity by France in the wake of World War I); and it has regularly called for direct peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why the U.S. Is Back on the Road to Damascus | 2/7/2010 | See Source »

...upon entering Israel, Ismail was quickly taken aside for questioning. Israeli security officials interrogated her and searched her belongings for eight hours before clearing her for border control and immigration, according to Ismail...

Author: By ZOE A. Y. WEINBERG, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Law School In Discussion Regarding Deportation of HLS Student | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...Egyptian is not a label with which Abu Daoud (not his real name) identifies. Many of the Bedouin tribes who populate this mountainous desert region of the northern Sinai Peninsula, where Egypt shares a tense border with Israel and the Gaza Strip, have long been at odds with their government in Cairo. (Watch a video on the tunnel smugglers of the Gaza Strip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...smuggling boom may soon be over, as Egypt constructs a subterranean steel wall along the border, designed to cut off the network of tunnels that have kept both Gaza and the Bedouin afloat - a move that will antagonize the tribes in a tinderbox region...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

...Egyptian authorities say the smuggling is illegal, and have blamed the porous border with Gaza for instability and terrorism in Sinai. Speaking on live television on Jan. 24, President Hosni Mubarak said, "We have started construction along our borders not to appease anyone but to protect our nation from terrorist plots like the ones that took place in Taba, Sharm el-Sheikh, Dahab and Cairo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Egypt's New Challenge: Sinai's Restive Bedouins | 2/3/2010 | See Source »

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