Syria

A Coup for America

Why the United States needs to work with Syrian government insiders to topple Bashar al-Assad.

BY ZALMAY KHALILZAD | SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Turkey's Men in Syria

How the Gaza flotilla organizers became the best hope of Syrian refugees abandoned by the world.

BY JUSTIN VELA | SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

It's Time to Act in Syria

Yes, it's true: Military involvement in Syria has its risks. But the costs of non-intervention are growing by the day.

BY MARK N. KATZ | SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

The Gang That Can't Shoot Straight

The Syrian National Council has failed to galvanize international support for the rebellion -- and it has only itself to blame.

BY MALIK AL-ABDEH | SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Turkish Dilemma

Turkey's voluble prime minister has talked himself into a corner on Syria. Will the spiraling unrest next door finally force him to back up his words?

BY KAREN LEIGH | SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The Time for Action

The Obama administration has backed itself into a corner in Syria, a crisis with few good options. But the endgame is clear, at least, and the time to get involved has come.

BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 31, 2012

What War in Syria Looks Like

A photographer ventures inside the battle for Aleppo.

BY ADAM DEAN | AUGUST 27, 2012

Two Cheers for Syrian Islamists

So the rebels aren't secular Jeffersonians. As far as America is concerned, it doesn't much matter.

BY GARY GAMBILL | AUGUST 23, 2012

The Jets of August

In the battle for Aleppo, the Assad regime's dangerous new weapon -- fighter jets -- has claimed dozens of lives in the nearby town of Azaz.

AUGUST 22, 2012

The Air War in Aleppo

The battle for Syria's north is not a fair fight. But the rebels are winning anyway.

BY JUSTIN VELA | AUGUST 22, 2012

Don't Pity the Nation

Syria's crisis may be spillling over into Lebanon, but Hezbollah and its rivals are perfectly capable of screwing up the country on their own.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | AUGUST 21, 2012

The Syrian Spillover

Is anyone prepared for the unintended consequences of the war for Syria?

BY DANIEL L. BYMAN, KENNETH M. POLLACK | AUGUST 10, 2012

The Next Proxy War

How the United States can use the Syrian civil war to prepare the region -- for Iran.

BY ROBERT HADDICK | AUGUST 10, 2012

The Syrian Rebels' Libyan Weapon

Meet the Irish-Libyan commander giving Bashar al-Assad nightmares.

BY MARY FITZGERALD | AUGUST 9, 2012

The Winners and Losers of Syria's Civil War

And how the United States can still come out ahead.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 8, 2012

Fiasco in the Levant

Unless the United States gets serious now about its postwar planning, Syria could spin out of control.

BY JAMES DOBBINS | AUGUST 8, 2012

The Scorpion and the Frog

For years, Syria supported a witches' brew of terrorist groups across the Middle East. Now, it's payback time.

BY TY MCCORMICK | AUGUST 7, 2012

Stars and Bars

The many lives of the Syrian flag.

AUGUST 6, 2012

Capture the Flag

What the rebel banner says about Syria's civil war.

BY SAMI MOUBAYED | AUGUST 6, 2012

Syrian Shadow Boxing

In a year of diplomatic duels between Moscow and Washington at the United Nations over Syria, is the Obama administration actually getting what it wants?

BY COLUM LYNCH | AUGUST 3, 2012

Annan and On and On

Should we really blame Kofi Annan for failure to make peace in Syria?

BY JAMES TRAUB | AUGUST 3, 2012

Breaking the Arab News

Egypt made al Jazeera -- and Syria's destroying it.

BY SULTAN AL QASSEMI | AUGUST 2, 2012

Why Syria's Rebels Can't Have It All

Don't listen to pundits who want to drag America into another Middle East quagmire. The Obama administration's strategy in Syria is already working.

BY AARON DAVID MILLER | AUGUST 1, 2012

Syria's DIY Revolt

Syrian rebels are massively outgunned by Bashar al-Assad's regime. But as Assad's army bears down on Aleppo, it may find the armed opposition is more than ready.

BY ELIOT HIGGINS | JULY 30, 2012

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JULY 27, 2012

Alawistan

Bashar al-Assad may be gearing up to create an Alawite statelet along Syria's coastal mountains. And he has the means to do it.

BY TONY BADRAN | JULY 27, 2012

The Battle for Aleppo

The rebellion comes to Syria's largest city.

JULY 26, 2012

The Fog of Civil War

What's really going on in Syria is too complicated to fit in a headline.

BY STEPHEN STARR | JULY 23, 2012

Assad's Final Warning

The United States needs to tell the Syrian regime in no uncertain terms: Use chemical weapons and we will end you.

BY ANDREW J. TABLER | JULY 19, 2012

Blowing up the Death Star

Syria's rebels score a direct hit.

BY MITCHELL PROTHERO | JULY 18, 2012