Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has earnestly promoted himself as a useful ally in the fight against the Islamic State group in his country. Could he really be an imperfect, yet useful, ad-hoc ally...
Martin Chulov of The Guardian newspaper got quite the scoop the other day. He got to interview a top-ranking member of the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) terrorist group, Abu Ahmed. Ahmed...
Over the weekend, Israel has allegedly carried out air strikes on targets in Syria. This isn't the first time that Israel has been suspected of carrying out strikes against Syria. As with past...
Presently in Syria, the Syrian Kurds are holding their ground against the vicious Islamic State. In the Syrian Kurdish town of Kobani they have successfully held out against vicious Islamic State...
The recent news story about archaeologists excavating the ancient site of Karkemish, which is situated right on Turkey's frontier with Syria, a mere 20-metres away from Islamic State-held territory...
Before there were allegations of chemical weapons—and breaking news that Bashar al-Assad had gassed 426 children—Bashar al-Assad and his regime had already killed 100,000 of his own people over...
The announcement of the United Nations’ recent appointment of Zimbabwean dictator and human rights abuser Robert Mugabe as an international envoy to promote tourism was laughable. Notwithstanding...
I do not know what to say about Syria. As the situation on the ground descends into what Al Jazeera reports may become a civil war, the tools available to those of us who comment from afar seem...
Like the uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt, the one in Syria, the product of decades of fierce repression, was sparked by more immediate acts of defiance. As political analyst Emma Sky was told that...
Governments throughout the Middle East are responding to pro-democracy protests with brutal crackdowns. Even in Egypt, so recently the site of so much public euphoria and jubilation, the military...