Still, Syrian officials seem worried about alienating the league, one of the last interlocutors for their increasingly isolated government.
Its belligerence, they conclude, appears calculated to maintain a weak, isolated government that would otherwise succumb to the forces of history.
BAGHDAD, Aug 6 — Five ministers suspended their participation in meetings of Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki's cabinet on Monday, sending a warning signal that they may pull out of his increasingly isolated government if their demands are not met.
HUMOR may not be the first thing that comes to mind when you think of the citizens of North Korea, a country known mostly for militant anti-Western propaganda, chronic food shortages and an internationally isolated government pursuing nuclear weapons.
Since July, following its blitz in Iraq and after it declared a caliphate straddling the Iraq-Syria border, Isis fighters have gone after isolated government bases in northern and eastern Syria, killing and decapitating army commanders and pro-government militiamen.
On May 24th the Tigers claimed to have killed 32 sailors in an attack by their naval wing, the Sea Tigers, on an island off the isolated government-held Jaffna peninsula.The government of President Maninda Rajapakse also uses terrorism.
TRIPOLI, Libya — The oil minister of Libya fled to neighboring Tunisia over the weekend, the Tunisian Interior Ministry said Tuesday, in what appeared to be another high-level defection from the increasingly isolated government of Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi.
Witnesses said there were sustained bursts of gunfire and sporadic shots for more than 20 minutes following Saturday's assault by about 100 soldiers loyal to the country's High Transitional Authority — the internationally isolated government formed by Mr. Rajoelina.
Turkey also decided, given that Mr. Assad continues to ignore the Arab League's calls for peace and political reform, to divert all of its Middle Eastern trade away from routes that traverse Syria, siphoning off yet another source of income for an increasingly isolated government.
Turkey also decided, given that Mr. Assad continues to ignore Arab League calls for peace and political reform, to divert all of its Middle Eastern trade away from routes that traverse Syria, siphoning off yet another source of income for Syria and severing yet another global tie for an increasingly isolated government.
