like in the American Independence, this is an actual overthrowing of a monarchy, of a monarchy that controls a major world power.

There's no force in the world able to overthrow the law of Yotar.

What really changed after the ouster of Mubarak wasn't that life got easier.

Western policymakers and those in the Gulf ask themselves what Syria would look like the day after Assad is toppled.

Lavaud was the preeminent member at the time of the first coup, but Magloire, now a colonel, dominated after Estimé's overthrow.

It is worth mentioning that Egyptian Israeli relations have seen tensions since the overthrow of its previous president Hosni Mubarak in a popular uprising last year.

After the Hussein administration was toppled by the 2003 invasion of Iraq, the governments that succeeded it have now tried to establish relations with various nations.

The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.

In 1867 an attempt was made to establish a constitutional government, but successive presidents Sylvain Salnave and Nissage Saget were overthrown in 1869 and 1874 respectively.

Despite the relatively costless overthrow of the Qaddafi regime, America s prolonged interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq have severely strained the public s tolerance for an active foreign policy.

Kasbah square, where the Cabinet building is located, became an epicenter of sit ins and protests, which sought to overthrow the so hated former ruling party (now dissolved), the RCD (from its French acronym Le Rassemblement Constitutionnel Démocratique, Constitutional Democratic Rally in English), which was associated with corruption and oppression.

The same year France contributed to the toppling of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan, but it strongly rejected the 2003 invasion of Iraq, even threatening to veto in central coners in the US proposed resolution.

Immigration Since the overthrow of the regime of Saddam Hussein in 2003, Iraqi Kurdistan has witnessed massive immigration from the rest of Iraq (particularly from Kurds, Assyrians, Armenians, Mandeans, Shabaks and Roma), as well as from South Asia.

But there is a strong belief across the region that the costs of removing autocracies, as high as they might be, are low compared to the damage inflicted by the current rulers. In short, freedom is worth the price.

Refugees are a natural consequence of war indeed, there has seldom been a war without civilians trying to flee from its carnage. But what causes the wars?

The country has long had an unparalleled reputation for corruption. But, since the late 1990s and especially after 2000, when the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), which had ruled for 70 years, was swept from power Mexico has made significant inroads in combating the practice, at least at the federal level.

TEL AVIV Syria s crisis is now a year old, with close to 10,000 people, mostly civilians, dead and no end in sight. The country is at a stalemate the opposition is unable to topple President Bashar al Assad s regime, and Assad s forces are unable to quash the resistance.