Syria

Sectarian violence should be seen as the result of specific political and economic developments, rather than their cause.

Any article listing the top 10 of anything will be widely read.

As refugees from Syria continue to pour into Lebanon, the majority of children are not going to school, spurring concern that they will become a “lost generation.”

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 …