DAMASCUS, Syria – In 2011, Syrian activists were inspired and believed they were capable of ousting President Bashar Assad. Now,…
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What are your chances if you’re a Syrian citizen now?
This is a bad time to be a Syrian. Will the two sides tearing your country apart meet in Geneva…
Continue reading →The silence on Syria
In a candid interview, Laura Hughes talks to journalist Charles Glass about Syria and the silence eminating from the world…
Continue reading →Outsiders have not improved life in either Syria or Iraq
This month Iraq and Syria are both noting, but not celebrating, anniversaries of violence that transformed the two societies.
Continue reading →The last thing Syrians need is more arms going to either side
Russia and Iran are providing weapons and ammunition to Syria’s President Assad, while Saudi Arabia and Qatar deliver arms through…
Continue reading →There is no ‘noble war’ that will justify this bloodshed
After the terrible bloodletting on the battlefields, the fever began to die down. People looked war in the face with…
Continue reading →Charles Glass on Syria’s Mutual Destruction and the Unconvincing Fears of Assad’s Chemical Weapons
Veteran journalist Charles Glass joins us to discuss his recent trip to Syria and its largest city, Aleppo. Addressing U.S.-led…
Continue reading →Aleppo: How Syria Is Being Destroyed
This year, Aleppo will produce no soap. The late-medieval souks in which craftsmen fashioned blocks of the famous olive oil…
Continue reading →The colonial-era division of spoils draws a map of Syria’s uncertainty
Syrians used to tell a joke about a survey that asked “what is your opinion of eating meat?” This was…
Continue reading →Syria’s refugees pay a cruel price as the conflict keeps spreading
A Syrian friend of mine complained, rightly, that both sides in the country’s civil war have had a hand in…
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