Syria
Shopping Option C for Syria
Arming the rebels is not a Goldilocks idea, it’s just wrong.
BY MARC LYNCH | FEBRUARY 14, 2013
Syria's Battle Royale
The struggle for Damascus looks poised to transform this bloody conflict.
BY EMILE HOKAYEM | FEBRUARY 11, 2013
Arm the Syrian Rebels. Now.
Obama's cabinet had a plan to take down Bashar al-Assad. What went wrong?
BY MICHAEL DORAN, SALMAN SHAIKH | FEBRUARY 8, 2013
Europe's Hezbollah Problem
In the wake of the Bulgarian bombing investigation, will the European Union finally designate Hezbollah a terrorist group?
BY BENJAMIN WEINTHAL | FEBRUARY 6, 2013
Syria's Secular Revolution Lives On
Islamist radicals may be gaining strength, but the spirit that sparked this uprising survives in the unlikeliest of places.
BY OMAR HOSSINO | FEBRUARY 4, 2013
The U.N.'s Deal With the Devil
The United Nations needs to work with President Bashar al-Assad's regime to provide aid to the Syrian people. But is it inadvertently funding the government's killing machine?
BY SAKHR AL-MAKHADHI | FEBRUARY 1, 2013
The First Lab Results Are In
Democracy Lab is celebrating its first anniversary. Here are some of the things we've learned over the past year -- and where we're headed in year two.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 31, 2013
Saving Syrians, One Blanket at a Time
How I became a one-man aid worker in the world's deadliest war zone.
BY WIJBE ABMA | JANUARY 29, 2013
Why the Killing in Syria Is Just the Beginning
The international community’s failure on Syria limits its power to act against the even bigger bloodletting that’s likely to happen down the road.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 25, 2013
Covering the Syrian Catastrophe
The 22-month civil war is even worse than the headlines make it seem.
BY LARA SETRAKIAN | JANUARY 25, 2013
Fund Syria’s Moderates
We can’t say that helping the Syrian rebels didn’t work, because it has never really been tried.
BY ROBIN YASSIN-KASSAB | JANUARY 23, 2013
Chemical Reaction
How the United States should deal with Assad.
BY MICHAEL EISENSTADT | JANUARY 18, 2013
Should Obama Have Intervened in Syria?
Or would U.S. military involvement merely have made a disaster worse?
BY MARC LYNCH | JANUARY 17, 2013
Suiting Up
What the United States is doing to prepare for chemical war in Syria.
BY R. JEFFREY SMITH, THE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY | JANUARY 17, 2013
Preparing for the New Syria
Sooner or later, the war will end, and Syrians will have to sit down and talk about the future of their state. Here's a roadmap.
BY ASHRAF GHANI, CLARE LOCKHART | JANUARY 15, 2013
Syrian Purgatory
As winter clutches northern Syria, thousands displaced by the civil war take cold comfort in a temporary tent city.
BY STEVEN SOTLOFF | JANUARY 14, 2013
There's No App for Syria
Why did Apple ban a game on the Syrian civil war?
BY MICHAEL PECK | JANUARY 11, 2013
Responsibility to Object
It's time for the U.N. Security Council to do something about war crimes in Syria.
BY DAVID KAYE | JANUARY 10, 2013
No Surrender
The Syrian president’s speech at the Damascus Opera House shows that he still thinks he can win this war.
BY EMILE HOKAYEM | JANUARY 7, 2013
The Year in Unfreedom
An encouraging number of the world's people voted in 2012. But voting does not a democracy make.
BY CHRISTIAN CARYL | JANUARY 4, 2013
The Year the Arab Spring Went Bad
Hopes for a democratic Middle East have faltered amid sectarian animosities and ideological divisions. Did it have to be this way?
BY F. GREGORY GAUSE, III | DECEMBER 31, 2012
10 Conflicts to Watch in 2013
From Turkey to Congo, next year's wars threaten global stability.
BY LOUISE ARBOUR | DECEMBER 27, 2012
From Bread Lines to Front Lines
In the latest phase of Syria's civil war, civilians have become the targets.
BY STEVEN SOTLOFF | DECEMBER 24, 2012
All (Syrian) Politics Is Local
How jihadists are winning hearts and minds in Syria.
BY HASSAN HASSAN | DECEMBER 20, 2012
Syria's Time Is Running Out
The country tears itself further apart with each passing day. This is the moment to do something about it.
BY FREDERIC HOF | DECEMBER 19, 2012
The Most Dangerous Beat on Earth
Four brave journalists weigh in on what it's like to cover Syria.
DECEMBER 19, 2012
The indispensable nation's indispensable weapon
BY JAMES TRAUB
Why Obama hasn't exactly won the war on homegrown terrorism
BY JANE HARMAN
Did Turkey just become a little more like Texas?
BY MARYA HANNUN
Was the killing of a British soldier in London actually an act of terrorism?
BY H.A. HELLYER
WikiLeaks hits back at documentary with 'annotated transcript'
BY JOSHUA E. KEATING
Mystery solved: John Kerry really ate turkey shwarma
BY MARYA HANNUN
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