By Elizabeth Dickinson in Foreign Policy ABU DHABI and DOHA — Behind a glittering mall near Doha’s city center sits the quiet restaurant where Hossam used to run his Syrian rebel brigade. At the battalion’s peak in 2012 and 2013,… Read More ›
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The Syrian Front: Waiting to Die in Aleppo
By Christoph Reuter in Der Spiegel Driving through the outer districts of the city, a ghostly wasteland begins. The streets and the half-destroyed residential buildings are empty and the only sounds come from shredded metal signs moving in the wind… Read More ›
If the U.S. Wanted To, It Could Help Free Thousands of Enslaved Yazidi Women in a Single Day
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The plight of thousands of Yazidi women, kidnapped by the Islamic State (IS) during its August 3 attack on Iraq’s Sinjar mountains and in the following weeks, has received some media attention, but most… Read More ›
An Army to Defeat Assad
How to Turn Syria’s Opposition Into a Real Fighting Force By Kenneth M. Pollack in Foreign Affairs Syria is a hard one. The arguments against the United States’ taking a more active role in ending the vicious three-year-old conflict there… Read More ›
DNA Evidence Identifies Jack the Ripper
It is the greatest murder mystery of all time, a puzzle that has perplexed criminologists for more than a century and spawned books, films and myriad theories ranging from the plausible to the utterly bizarre. But now, thanks to modern… Read More ›
The choices in Syria are narrowed
By Karen Leigh This weekend the Syrian government reportedly bombed Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Raqqa, the group’s eastern stronghold and the base of operations for its summer offensives on Mosul and Iraqi Kurdistan. But ISIS… Read More ›
Matthew Barber Reports On the Crisis in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region
By Matthew Barber in Syria Comment The calm is slowly unraveling in Kurdistan, and a growing, pervasive anxiety is beginning to afflict us all. We know that the fighting between the Kurdish Peshmerga forces and the Islamic State jihadis continues… Read More ›
Canadians Can’t Drink Their Water After Massive Keystone XL Spill
A breach in a tailings pond from the open-pit Mount Polley copper and gold mine sent five million cubic meters (1.3 billion gallons) ofslurry gushing into Hazeltine Creek in B.C. That’s the equivalent of 2,000 Olympic swimming pools of waste,… Read More ›
Why the Honduran Children Flee North
By Dennis J Bernstein in Consortium News AP: Hillary Clinton was probably the most important actor in supporting the coup in Honduras. In part, perhaps, one would assume because one of her best friends from law school, Lanny Davis, who had… Read More ›
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