civil war

Professors Nicolai Petro and Aleksandr Buzgalin discuss the factional clashes in the Ukrainian city of Odessa and how the international community can deescalate tensions.

Ukraines interim president has sent armed forces to retake government buildings that were seized by pro-Russian militants last week.

In the US we have our own ongoing civil war between govenment and rebels - supported by rich warlords - who are armed but, so far, have only targeted …

In the early days of the Syrian uprising-turned civil war three years ago, the writing on the wall of it becoming an intricate regional and international conflict was there …

Forced out of Syria by civil war, Palestinian refugees have fled to Gaza, where they are welcomed but unable to enjoy basic economic and physical security.

They are part of a growing population of refugees that are often without international support, a sub-group of people whose basic needs are rarely addressed by the global community: …

To look at the Syrian civil war in isolation and to entrust the US and its allies to take control of the situation would be a grave mistake.

The American republic and worldwide republicanism, not to mention global peace and justice, once again hangs in the balance.

The deadliness and unreliability of chemical weapons were not the only lessons of World War I. A far more important lesson is that a war can take on a …

The use of chemical weapons by Assad is still in question, and instead of focusing on military intervention, the US should be supporting a negotiated peace between both sides