These days are all about the anniversaries of the Arab Spring protests that started two years ago. Chris Stephen of The Guardian reports on the sour mood in Libya which struggles to contain Islamist militias, while James Traub at The Foreign Policy magazine makes parallels between the "revolutionary" Egypt and the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Also, read about the looming battle for Syria's capital Damascus, and the choices facing the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia in Lebanon.
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