They began in late December when Sunni demonstrators took to the streets in Anbar province, which borders Jordan and Syria, to protest al-Maliki's order to arrest the bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafaie al-Esawi, a Sunni.
They began in late December, when Sunnis took to the streets in Anbar province, which borders Jordan and Syria, to protest Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's order to arrest the bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafaie al-Esawi, a Sunni.
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More recently, a few days before the first Iraq Day anniversary, thousands of Sunnis took to the streets in Anbar province, a major trade thoroughfare to Jordan and Syria, to protest al-Maliki's order to arrest the bodyguards of Finance Minister Rafaie Esawi, a Sunni.
The United States withdrew its ambassador from Syria in 2005 in protest of the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
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One possible game changer is if the protest movement in Syria becomes widespread and covers large stretches of the country.
The United States withdrew its ambassador from Syria four years ago in protest at the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.
Burhan Ghalioun, a secular Sunni academic based in Paris, resigned three weeks ago over criticism that the council wasn't working transparently and that it had grown out of touch with the protest movement inside Syria.
They stayed silent when the bullet-ridden, tortured corpse of 13-year-old Hamza Ali al-Khateeb, who was arrested at a pro-democracy protest in a village in southern Syria in April, was returned to his family one month after his arrest.
To date, only four of Syria's 14 governorates constitute the major hubs of the protest movement: Homs, Hama, Idlib and Daraa.
This week's EU-Mediterranean conference is noteworthy because all 12 Mediterranean partners -- including Syria and Lebanon, which boycotted the event last year to protest Israel's presence -- have agreed to attend.
At a protest last year in Texas, Walk for the Child of Syria, Hitto's passion against the al-Assad government was on bold display.
In Tel Aviv, tens of thousands of Israelis have been taking part in a demonstration to protest against any withdrawal from the Golan Heights under any future peace deal with Syria.
He never overtly came out against Syria in the dispute, but his resignation in October 2004 was taken as a clear protest against the Syrian pressure to keep Mr Lahoud in office.
He was killed in a car bombing last year at the height of the so-called Cedar Revolution, a mass protest movement spearheaded by Lebanon's Christians and Sunni Muslims that eventually forced Syria to end its long military occupation of Lebanon.
Grassroots protest groups do well at policing their own communities, which in many parts of Syria have the feel of zones liberated from military occupation.
Syria marked the moment by letting its minions unleash a volley of rockets on northern Israel to protest, while Assad flew to Cairo to coordinate with Egypt on how to derail the treaty.
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