Syria

Syria The next alleged massacre by Syrian government troops is being reported. An intervention will be seen as the only answer.

Kofi Annan, the special envoy of the United Nations and Arab League who has sought unsuccessfully for months to resolve the Syrian conflict, has submitted his resignation Secretary General …

The principal Obama Administration target in this complex affair is Iran, not Syria. The Syrian government must fall because it is Iran's main Arab ally.

In the last few days, the UN Security Council passed two resolutions on the civil war in Syria, on the basis of which the first part of a UN …

A divided, balkanized Syria looms as a dangerous possibility as even UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon acknowledges the conflict has become a proxy war between world powers.

Leo Panitch: Recently returned from Greece, a report on Syriza, the left party that could win the next election

Richard Engel, foreign correspondent for NBC news, talks with Rachel Maddow about the balance of power in Syria as he observed it after sneaking into the country from Turkey.

Syria's 16-month conflict has so far claimed more than 15,000 lives.

At least 10,000 Syrians have been killed since Assad deployed his army and security services to suppress the anti-government protests.

Like so many other times before, the human cost of this conflict is incalculably high. Itu2019s not surprising that the normal human reaction is u201cweu2019ve got to do something!u201d …