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Syria
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Obama Strategy to Beat Islamic State Likely to Draw US Into Years of Conflict
The nascent strategy calls for working with European and Arab allies to confront the group not only in Iraq, but also in Syria.
Obama’s No-Win War on ISIS
Obama's constant Middle East flip-flops have made it difficult to keep allies.
The Islamic State, Assad, and the Contradictions Faced by the US in Syria
President Barack Obama has authorized the military to conduct surveillance flights over Syria. With US airstrikes already happening in Iraq against extremist group The Islamic State, these surveillance flights …
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Let’s Treat Assad Fairly – Like Any Other Pro-West Dictator in the Middle East
The US government's unwillingness to overthrow the Assad government in Syria should not be a litmus test of US commitment to promoting democracy and human rights in the Middle …
What My Friend Jim Foley Taught Me to Question
Jessica Desvarieux of the Real News Network remembers her college friend, slain journalist James Foley.
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Do Harm, Look the Other Way: The New Hippocratic Oath?
Save the Children just issued a report about newborns in Syria starving to death.
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Why Washington’s War on Terror Failed: The Underrated Saudi Connection
There are extraordinary elements in the present US policy in Iraq and Syria that are attracting surprisingly little attention.
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Trauma Kits and Body Bags Now Fill Aleppo School
Greyish dust blankets the dead, the alive and the twisted steel jutting out.
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Why Is the US Going Back Into Iraq?
Is the president's bombing of ISIS in Iraq a backdoor means to direct involvement in the Syrian civil war? Does the United States oppose or support the Syrian rebels? …
Syria and Iraq: IS Casts a Chilling Shadow
Can the Islamic State's military victories in Sunni regions of Syria and Iraq translate into the creation of the so-called “Islamic Caliphate” it touts?