Faced with a seemingly unending bloody conflict in Syria and the rise of the Islamic State group, is President Bashar al-Assad the lesser of the country's evils and should the West re-engage with him?
"I am in solidarity with the Syrian people." "I reject the brutality and killing that the Syrian authorities are committing against the Syrian people."
Retired Israeli army general Yoav Galant suggested that Israel's assassination of a senior Hezbollah commander and an Iranian general in Syria on Sunday might have been timed with electoral politics in mind.
To understand the attack on Charlie Hebdo in Paris last week, we need only invert George W. Bush's 2005 mantra*, thus: "They will continue to attack us over here so long as we slaughter them by the millions over there."
Al Qaeda militants in Syria are plotting attacks to inflict mass casualties in the West, possibly against transport systems or "iconic targets", the head of Britain's MI5 Security Service said on Thursday.
According to The New York Times, Maj. Gen. Michael K. Nagata, the commander of American Special Operations forces in the Middle East, is trying to figure out why the brutal Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) is such a dynamic force in Iraq and
Nearly 200 combatants on both sides were killed in 24 hours when the Syrian branch of Al-Qaeda took two regime bases in Idlib province, a monitoring group said on Tuesday.
Far from their worst fears, the US-run prison provided an extraordinary opportunity. "We could never have all got together like this in Baghdad, or anywhere else," he told me. "It would have been impossibly dangerous. Here, we
When the Anglo-American powers are intent on the destruction of a target country -- the unfortunate nation that finds itself in the crosshairs of NATO -- there is very little that will stand in the way of their goals.
One reason that Barack Obama is slumping in the polls is that Republicans have successfully painted him as weak on foreign policy. Yet, during his tenure so far, Obama has used air power to oust Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, surged American forces i
Donald Lungrin tells his story of why he volunteered for the Syrian Army to help them fight - Joel Skousen (Editor in Chief of the World Affairs Brief and survivalist) talks about getting prepared to survive the collapse
The increasingly hostile divergence of views between Turkey and the United States over Syria is testing the durability of their 60-year alliance, to the point where some are starting to question whether the two countries still can be considered allie
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