#syria:

Это блюдо также популярно в Ливане, Палестине и Иордании. Типичный сирийский кеббе делают из булгура (крупы твердой пшеницы), рубленого лука и мелко порезанных кусочков говядины, ягненка, козьего или верблюжьего мяса. Лучший вариант кеббе - вот такие вот котлетки, фаршированные говядиной или ягненком. Котлеты также могут иметь форму шара или лепешки, и их могут запекать или варить в бульоне.

The Pentagon says it's "ready to go" if it gets orders to carry out a military strike in response to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people.

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry calls it proof "beyond any reasonable doubt." Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says it's "very clear."

The Syrian government says it was not behind an alleged chemical attack and accuses the West of standing in the way of democracy.

The Pentagon says it's "ready to go" if it gets orders to carry out a military strike in response to Syria's suspected use of chemical weapons against its own people.

In March 2011, Arab Spring–inspired protests kicked off in the impoverished Syrian agricultural town of Dara‘a. The mini-uprising, defined by its peaceful character, met a brutal response, one that few observers at the time could have anticipated would blow up into a far wider rebellion against President Bashar Assad and the entrenched, decades-long rule of his family. With Syrian authorities clamping down on journalistic access and freedoms, we saw glimpses of the unrest there for months only through grainy YouTube footage—images as uncertain and hard to corroborate as the events on the ground.

Westerwelle ataka vikwazo dhidi ya Waziri wa Mambo ya Nchi za Nje wa Ujerumani, Guido Westerwelle, a http://bit.ly/j3pcWR