Sources on Middle East

Azerbaijan: US Military Ties with Baku are Stagnating - Experts

http://www.eurasianet.org/node/63360

Unwelcome Surprises in Libya

Declaring our intervention in the Maghreb a failure

http://reason.com/archives/2011/04/25/unwelcome-surprises-in-libya/print

CIA’s Panetta Held Secret Talks on Syria in Ankara, Sabah Says

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-04-26/cia-s-panetta-held-secret-talks-on-syria-in-ankara-sabah-says.html

President of Yemen Offers to Leave, With Conditions

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/world/middleeast/24yemen.html?hp

Yemen’s president agrees to resign in tentative deal

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/yemens-president-saleh-agrees-to-step-down-in-return-for-immunity/2011/04/23/AFu59SWE_story.html?hpid=z1

Guantanamo Bay: Why Obama hasn’t fulfilled his promise to close the facility

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/guantanamo-bay-how-the-white-house-lost-the-fight-to-close-it/2011/04/14/AFtxR5XE_story.html?hpid=z1

U.S. secretly backed Syrian opposition groups, cables released by WikiLeaks show

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-secretly-backed-syrian-opposition-groups-cables-released-by-wikileaks-show/2011/04/14/AF1p9hwD_story.html