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Archives: Syria
Danger: ISIL is defeated, but Raqqa’s people are Devastated and waiting for Accountability
Akshaya Kumar, Deputy United Nations Director | (Human Rights Watch) | - - UN Security Council Meeting Should Address Plight of Raqqa’s Residents The United Nations Security Council meets again today on…
Who has won the Syrian War in the wake of the fall of ISIL?
Seyed Ali Alavi | ( OpenDemocracy.net) | - - ISIL may have been defeated, but the battle for Syria's political soul is far from over. A Syrian army checkpoint in the town…
Friedman: Does Iran’s Quds Force really Control four Countries and is Israel-Iran War Near?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Thomas Friedman's column this week made several allegations about the danger of an explosive situation in Syria, about which he is certainly correct.…
With Turkish Troops in Syria, is Erdogan’s Neo-Ottomanism a Diplomatic or Military Project?
By Nicolai Due-Gundersen | (The Conversation) | - - On our third trip to Istanbul, my wife and I visited the 19th century Dolmabahce Palace, once the administrative centre of the Ottoman…
Syria After Trump’s Withdrawal: Top Reasons an “Arab Force” will Fail
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump's determination to withdraw US troops from eastern Syria by October, so that GOP candidates for representative and senator can run on…
Trump can’t Actually care much about Syrians if he only let in 11 Refugees this Year
TeleSur | - - "We are seeing the impact of the Trump administration's words and policy and actions that slams the door on refugees," says Oxfam America. The United States has accepted…
The Tragedy of American Great Power Moves on the Middle East: Trump Can, so he Will
By Mohammed Nuruzzaman | (Informed Comment) | - - As assumed, the US, the UK and France launched their coordinated airstrikes on Syria in the early hours of Saturday, April 14 to…
Iraq on Syria Strikes: We’ve seen this Movie and it doesn’t End Well
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Iraq's foreign ministry came out strongly against the US, British and French missile strikes on Syria. In a statement issued Saturday, the ministry…
Reality Show violence in the Age of Trump: Striking Syria
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - President Trump along with allies British prime minister Theresa May and French president Emannuel Macron struck Syria on Friday evening. It was not…
Russia, Iran and Syria respond to Trump’s Threats
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The UK-based Arabic language daily, al-Arabi al-Jadid (a secular, left-leaning newspaper helmed by Azmi Bishara from Qatar) reports on the responses of Syria…
Syria: would a new foreign military intervention be legal?
By James Sweeney | (The Conversation) | - - Just days after an alleged chemical attack killed and injured scores of civilians in Douma, Syria, the US, UK and France agreed in…
Trump, World Leaders outraged by Syria’s Douma but ignore Children of Gaza & Yemen
By Amelia Smith @amyinthedesert | (Middle East Monitor) | - - In the aftermath of the chemical weapons assault that suffocated to death over 80 men, women and children in the town…
Bombed and gassed into oblivion: The lost oasis of Damascus
By Karen Pinto | (The Conversation) | - - Dozens of people, including children, were killed this past weekend by an alleged chemical weapons attack in the eastern Ghouta city of Douma.…
Will Trump divert attention from Cohen Raid by attacking Syria?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - Matt Apuzzo of the New York Times reports that FBI agents produced a warrant at the offices in the Rockefeller Center of Trump's…
If the world doesn’t stop Chemical Massacres at Syria, who is Next?
By Michelle Bentley | (The Conversation) | - - Seven years into its catastrophic conflict, Syria has witnessed yet another major chemical strike. This time the target was the rebel-held city of…
Trump on Syria Chem Attack: Putin responsible for supporting “Animal Assad”
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - On Sunday, Trump responded to the use by the Syrian regime of a chlorine-filled barrel bomb in the rebel enclave of Douma, a…
Russia says Syrian rebels to be brought out of Douma
Middle East Monitor | - - Russia’s military said an operation would begin on Sunday to bring fighters of the Jaish al-Islam rebel group out of their besieged enclave of Douma, Interfax…
Syrian Regime kills dozens in Chem attack on Douma Holdout Enclave: Why?
By Juan Cole | (Informed Comment) | - - The Saudi-backed fundamentalist militia "Army of Islam" in the Douma district of East Ghouta near Damascus alleged Sunday that the al-Assad regime had…