Syria

Two leading Syria experts, Steven Heydemann and Joshua Landis, talk about the “big picture” of the Syrian conflict and the wider crisis.

How do you assess disproportionate harm when this entire assault on Syria is disproportionate and premised on undefined threats?

The Pentagon plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War by launching a $30 million program to rewrite and sanitize its history.

A stunning disproportion in spending on ISIS versus Ebola crises highlights a fatal distortion in US priorities.

Like Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge, ISIS is the mutation of a western state terror dispensed by a venal imperial elite undeterred by the consequences of actions taken …

“Amid the waves of fear and continual headlines about terror plots, we, the people, have now largely been relegated to the role of frightened spectators.”

Osama Bin Laden explicitly described his terror tactics as drawing the US, and the West generally, into an endless war.

Author Jeremy Scahill talks about how the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 helped create the threat now posed by the Islamic State.

The Obama administration's war plans in Iraq and Syria are illegal, ill-conceived, and destined to fail.

With US and allied aircraft now bombing Islamic State and Al Qaeda positions in Iraq and Syria, many analysts foresee a boost to bottom lines for munitions manufacturers, weapons …