Possible Clues:

• Neighbour of Iraq
• Some Pan-pipes for a country
• Country's fresh news less fresh after revolution
• Turkey abutter
• What flipping fish is doing in troubled country
• Country appearing backward in fairy story
• Middle East republic
• Subject of 2011 Arab League sanctions
• First Arab country to have sanctions imposed on it by the Arab League
• Light sleeper's first to get up in the country