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The Arab League and the Iraqi-Syrian RelationshipBaghdad's Surprising Support for a Former Enemy
The Arab League's mission in Syria is coming in for heavy criticism – and so is Iraq, which brokered the mission: the country has performed a drastic about-face that many find quite astonishing. Birgit Svensson in Baghdad has the details
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The Arab League's Observer Mission in SyriaStaring into the Abyss
An effective way of exerting pressure, or nothing but a farce? Still in the early stages, or has it already failed? Many different questions are being raised overseas about the Arab League's observer mission to Syria, and the answers given by Syrians on the ground are equally varied. Hubertus Ecker has been finding out more in Damascus