However, there are continuing sectarian tensions and unease about Syrian and other external influences.

However, his rule over Syria ended after only a few months, following the clash between his Syrian Arab forces and regular French forces at the Battle of Maysalun.

However, the Syrian government accepted UNSCR 1483 ( after being absent for the actual vote ), which lifted sanctions on Iraq and established a framework to assist the Iraqi people in determining their political future and rebuilding their economy.

However, the parties were unable to come to an agreement due to President Bill Clinton's failure to consult with the Syrian President, Hafez al-Assad during the negotiating process, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's backtracking on the issue of the northeastern shore of Lake Tiberias and Syria's nonnegotiable demand that Israel withdraw to the positions it held on 4 June 1967.

However, due to the hostility of relations between Arafat and Syrian President Hafez al-Assad ( who had previously ousted President Salah Jadid ), the Palestinian fighters crossed the border into Lebanon to join PLO forces in that country, where they set up their new headquarters.

However, Seleucus IV is assassinated by his chief minister Heliodorus who then seizes the Syrian throne.

However, a string of incidents over the past several years have increased concerns that militant groups can strike Syrian targets and have caused the authorities to strengthen their efforts to prevent attacks.

However, Abd al-Malik's Syrian reinforcements enabled Hajjaj to turn the tide.

However, no medieval Arabic source has been traced for Aladdin, which was incorporated into The Book of One Thousand and One Nights by its French translator, Antoine Galland, who heard it from an Arab Syrian Christian storyteller from Aleppo.

However, in some Kurdish areas cleared of government forces during the Syrian civil war, cannabis cultivation has emerged as a common way of earning income in the war-torn region.

However, Buster Douglas distanced himself from the " Desert Fox " label no later than 1985 because of clarification from his promotional team and the concern that he might be confused with Syrian boxer, Ghiath Tayfour.

However, the latter species lacks the white shoulder patch, having an all-white lower back instead ; it also has a less well-developed zigzag stripe on the neck, just like the Syrian Woodpecker.

However, Ephrem the Syrian ( 306-373 ) relates a contradictory view, that Nimrod was righteous and opposed the builders of the Tower.

However, the Ashkenazic yeshiva known as Aderet Eliyahu, in the Old City of Jerusalem, uses an adaptation of the Syrian cantillation-melody for these books, and this is becoming more popular among other Ashkenazim as well.

However, a few artifacts have been found, including scarabs that have been attributed to king Neferkara I of the seventh dynasty as well as a green jasper cylinder of Syrian influence which has been credited to the eighth dynasty.

However, the Vichy French authorities in the Syrian Mandate had given some assistance to both the pro-Axis Iraqi nationalists and to the Germans ( providing staging bases for the aircraft of the German Air Force ).

However, at low altitude the Syrian Air Force effectively used Aerospatiale Gazelle helicopters in anti-armour role against advancing Israeli ground forces.

However, Syrianair's official and legal title continues to be " Syrian Arab Airlines " to this day.

However, it was due to Byzantine intervention that the Turks did not follow up their victory ; and Anazarbus remained in Armenian hands – Michael the Syrian says that John II Comnenus at once started an offensive against the Turks.

However a more serious challenge occurred after the Syrian invasion of Lebanon in 1976.

However, مثل mitl, as found in Syrian and Lebanese Arabic, is also used by Palestinians in other regions.

However, Napoleon never showed any particular interest in winning over the Jews of Palestine during his campaign there, though his account of the military campaign records that a rumour among Syrian Jews had it that after Napoleon took Acre, he would go to Jerusalem and restore Solomon's temple and decrees were passed in favour of Jews ( and Coptic Christians and women ) in French-controlled Egypt.

However, there are also gaps in Herodian's knowledge of Syrian affairs which lead one to believe that he might not have been from the region at all.

However, nearly all the Syrian sects were hostile to the French mandate and to the division it created.

During a large revolt, dissidents marched on Córdoba itself ; However, Abd al-Rahman always managed to stay one step ahead, and crushed all opposition ; as he always dealt severely with dissidence in al-Andalus.

However, earlier controversies over impact of the Boston extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike, particularly on the heavily populated neighborhood of Brighton, and the large number of additional homes that would have had to be destroyed, led to massive community opposition to both the Inner Belt and the Boston section of I-95.

However, they were later overtaken in the polls by the Conservatives and at the 1983 general election the Conservatives triumphed by a landslide, with Labour once again forming the opposition, while the SDP-Liberal Alliance came close to Labour in terms of votes ( a share of more than 25 %) although it only had 23 MPs compared to Labour's 209.

However, despite claims of government corruption, favoritism of Zaghawas, and abuses by the security forces, opposition party and labor union calls for general strikes and more active demonstrations against the government have been unsuccessful.

However, political opposition to opening these sectors to private participation has stalled the government's efforts.

However, a national unity government was not achieved due to the leftist AKEL and centrist Democratic Party rejecting the offer, preferring to remain opposition parties.

However, in the run-up to the 1997 general election, Labour opposition Tony Blair was in talks with Liberal Democrat leader Paddy Ashdown about forming a coalition government if Labour failed to win a majority at the election ; however there was never any need for a coalition to be formed as Labour won the election by a landslide.

However, support for existing honors programs at CUNY colleges and institutional opposition resulted in it being downgraded to a program.

However, public opposition to increases in defence spending — during a period when economic constraints require reduced spending for social welfare — has created differences among the political parties regarding a broadly acceptable level of new defence expenditure.

However, while bitheism implies harmony, ditheism implies rivalry and opposition, such as between good and evil, or bright and dark, or summer and winter.

However, continuing economic problems undermined the popularity of the ID, and opposition parties gained control of Congress in 1990.

However, Draper ’ s scheduled appearance in January 1950 was met with opposition from Hester McCullough, a woman who involved herself in the hunt for subversives.

However, the club blitzed the opposition in this year, losing only two matches and finishing top of the table.

However, Madero was unable to achieve the reconciliation he desired since conservative Porfirians had managed to get themselves organized during the interim presidency of Francisco León de la Barra and now mounted a sustained and effective opposition to Madero's reform program.

However, his work encountered too much opposition for that to be possible.

However, resistance groups and those who were in moral or political opposition to the Nazis were stalled by the fear of reprisals from the Gestapo.

However, since there was no effective opposition party, these issues were contested mainly within the coalition government, which won all but one seat in the first post-independence Malayan Parliament.

However, his reign was far from perfect for everyone: he made unsuccessful crusades, his expanding administrations raised opposition, and he burned Jewish books at the Pope's urging.

However, in 1843, the Scottish surgeon James Braid proposed the theory of hypnotism as a radical alternative, in opposition to Mesmerism.

However, even these moves towards greater European integration met with vehement opposition from the Eurosceptic wing of the party and the Cabinet as the Government attempted to ratify the Maastricht Treaty in the first half of 1993.

However, Kemp was able to use the nomination to promote his opposition to Clinton's partial birth abortion ban veto.

However, by 1990, cohesive opposition movements began to emerge, including the National Democratic Initiative Committee and the Alliance for Democracy in Mali ( Alliance pour la Démocratie au Mali, ADEMA ).

However, Ould Taya's election wins were dismissed as fraudulent by both opposition groups and external observers.

However the regime faced the opposition of the tribes — when the Berber were required to come under the jurisdiction of French courts in 1930 it marked the beginning of the independence movement.

However, opposition against the Marshall Plan was greatly reduced by the shock of the Communist coup in Czechoslovakia in February 1948.