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"Sergei Lavrov, its foreign minister, was also trying to sound even-handed when he met Hague in Moscow."

"Kofi Annan, below, is meeting Assad today to discuss what remains of the peace plan"

"Russia, Assad's most loyal ally, signed up to the UN statement (which notably failed to ascribe blame)"

"Assad knows that he can kill civilians with virtual impunity... Expressions of outrage over the massacre at Houla in Syria"

"Hague, meeting Lavrov, was seeking to persuade the Russians, in effect, to stop backing Syria."

"the rule of military dictator Gen. Zia ul-Haq from 1977 to 1988"

"For Morsy, that was the Muslim Brotherhood"

"Shafik, a former air force commander and Mubarak's last prime minister"

"Bin Laden befriended Afghan Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar"

"with support from the United States, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, jihadism went global"

"The whole state apparatus was behind Shafik"

"Maher al-Assad — the brother of current president Bashar al-Assad"

"what is Putin other than a member of the new generation of the old Soviet system, particularly as he was a member of the KGB"

"Abdul Rahman Al-Rashed the general manager of Al -Arabiya television"

"Hassan Nafaa, a political scientist at Cairo University"

"the Muslim Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsy"