Kerry leaves a legacy of hope in role at State
Astrid Riecken for The Boston Globe Secretary of State John Kerry will step down next month from the post he …
Archives de Tag: Syria
There’s more propaganda than news coming out of Aleppo this week
There was a period in 2011 and 2012 when there were genuinely independent opposition activists operating inside Syria, but as …
Hard Truth: Aleppo Rebels weren’t defeated by Main Force but b/c they alienated Syrians
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | Syria was in a better position to attain peace last spring, when a …
Beginning of the End for East Aleppo
Fabrice Balanche The Assad regime and Russia seem eager to establish full control of the city before the Trump administration …
Destroying Syria: a Joint Criminal Enterprise
by Diana Johnstone Photo by Jordi Bernabeu Farrús | CC By 2.0 Everyone claims to want to end the war …
Audio Reveals What John Kerry Told Syrians Behind Closed Doors
Jason Decrow/Associated Press By ANNE BARNARD Secretary of State John Kerry was clearly exasperated, not least at his own government. …
Airstrikes, Obfuscation and Propaganda in Syria
by Patrick Cockburn Airstrikes that hit the wrong target have always been justified or denied by the perpetrators with a …
Syria as Metaphor
By John Feffer The war in Syria is a nightmare. It’s a nightmare for all the civilians who suffer from …
Why the Syrian People Won’t Accept a Deal to Remove Assad
by John Wight Once again a plan for democratic transition in Syria has been drawn up by a coalition …
A No-Fly Zone Doesn’t Mean a No-War Zone
And the politicians and pundits calling for one in Syria ought to remember how toothless and ineffective the U.S. air …
War against Isis: Security services bracing for possible return of thousands of jihadists as group loses territory
The group is rapidly losing territory across its self-declared ‘caliphate’ in Syria and Iraq Kim Sengupta Defence Editor A Free Syrian …
The man who shot me now works for the CIA
New ally in fight against Isis is Syrian kidnapper who called Times journalists spies Anthony Loyd Anthony Loyd and Jack …
The World May Never Know if Syria Really Destroyed All Its Chemical Weapons
Syria’s mustard gas program leaves behind a trail of contradictions, discrepancies, and unanswered questions. By Colum Lynch Twelve years ago, …
Is Turkey’s incursion into Syria about Daesh, or about the Kurds?
By Juan Cole Turkish military sources told the Anadol news agency that Wednesday’s military attack on the Syrian border town …
Syria blames France for nerve gas attack in Gouta that almost took Britain to war
The atrocity killed hundreds of civilians in Ghouta, sparking a vote on military intervention Lizzie Dearden A Syrian couple mourn …
Russia Deploys Air Force in Iran For Syria Airstrikes
Moscow and Tehran are taking their collaboration in Syria to a new level. By Damien Sharkov Russia is now conducting …
The War on Syria’s Doctors
For five years, the Assad regime has relentlessly targeted medical workers in rebel-held territory. This is the story of their …
Turkey’s ‘Deep State’ Has a Secret Backchannel to Assad
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has recently patched up ties with Russia and Israel. Are a couple of nationalist politicians laying …
The CIA and Arms Deals in the Middle East
Alexander KUZNETSOV ,Deputy Head of the Institute of forecasting and settlement of political conflicts (Moscow) The five-year war in Syria …
Putin Has the Winning Hand in Syria, as Turkey Apologizes and Obama Deals
By Juan Cole Vladimir Putin was the skunk at the party in the West after his annexation (or repossession, depending …
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