TUNIS — Tunisia's leader for over two decades, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, died Thursday aged 83, Tunisia's Foreign Ministry said.. ... Ben Ali was born into modest family in the town of Hammam-Sousse on Sept 3, 1936 when Tunisia was still French protectorate.. ..…
The imperialists expected that the protests in Syria would “quickly topple the Assad regime” as protests had toppled the regimes in Tunisia and Egypt, Dickinson continues. ..…
Calibrated, strategically planned re-engagement, in consultation with Western and Arab partners, offers the most likely path to seeing a Syria emerge which, like Tunisia, chooses to benchmark its achievements as an Arab state against contemporary ideas among a younger generation, in Syria and within..…