Syria

According to the United Nations High Commissioner on Refugees the number of Syrian refugees is now over 2.3 million.

2013 has been a terrible year for several Arab nations. It has been terrible because the promise of greater freedoms and political reforms has been reversed.

For months, the “slam-dunk” evidence “proving” Syrian government guilt in the Aug. 21 Sarin attack near Damascus was a “vector analysis” pushed by the New York Times showing where …

Though conventional wisdom says that President Barack Obama has suffered a terrible year in 2013, much of this analysis simply marches in lockstep with the neocon view of Obamau2019s …

Peace talks are not advanced calculus, but basic addition.

Patrick Cockburn: "It is clearly a proxy war. This might have started off as a popular uprising in Syria, but by now it has four or five different conflicts …

Investigative journalist Seymour Hersh casts doubt on the veracity of the Obama administration's claims that only the Assad regime could have carried out the chemical attacks in the Damascus …

Syria's insurgency is drifting into the kind of organized criminal enterprise that created insolvable insurgencies in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Throughout his oddly defined career, he has done so much harm, as he at times served the role of lackey for those in power, and at others, seemed to …

Palestinian refugees reduces to immense poverty are forced to sell young family members into arranged marriages for money.