Tag: Bashar al-Assad
Two Views of the Putin/Trump Summit
It would be an interesting exercise to list all the agreements Washington has ever made and to calculate the percentage that it kept.
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Syria: A Letter to the Trumpster
What the Trump administration could do to end the bloody civil war in Syria.
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Please Don’t Attack Al-Qaeda
It should be no wonder that it has been, and continues to be, official US policy to protect al-Qaeda.
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Newly Translated WikiLeaks Saudi Cable: Overthrow the Syrian Regime, but Play Nice with Russia
An internal Saudi government cable sheds new light on its current threats of military escalation in Syria.
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Syria 2016: The Hezbollah Indispensability
Hezbollah has emerged from the quagmire of the conflict in Syria as aggressive, experienced, and indispensible as ever.
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Britain’s David Cameron Wants to Use Bombs to Prospect for Gold in Syria
David Cameron seeks to join Tony Blair as a member of “the club”.
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Syria may not be Panem, but it’s full of ‘Mockingjays’
The hunger games of starvation, death and destruction is real, and it continues to plague Syria with no imminent end at sight.
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Obama in the Middle East: From Bad to Worse
One has to wonder what in the world the White House is up to in the Middle East—unless sowing chaos is Obama’s strategy.
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Do Something, Anything: Naming and Shaming in Yarmouk
Here are some of the culprits in the suffering of Palestinian in the Yarmouk refugee camp in Syria.
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The ISIS Strategy
ISIS was formed as part of a dialectical strategy of “controlled opposition” to create instability in hitherto stable and prosperous states.
Read MoreIraq, Syria, and Superpower Prerogatives
The Obama Administration shares responsibility for the fact that Syria has been transformed into a breeding ground for violent Sunni jihadist organizations.
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Navigating Syria: The Impossible, Indispensable Mission
Syria belongs to its people. You either stand on their side, or the side of the oppressor.
Read MoreAssad and Khomeini Are Keeping Their Word. Will Obama Keep His?
If the White House truly wants to normalize relations with Iran and with Syria as it claims, it needs to do a lot better.
Read MoreSyria: Prospects for Geneva-2
With a view to end the bloodshed in Syria, the broad-based Geneva-2 United Nations peace conference opened at Montreux in Switzerland on January 22
Read MoreCaught in the Cross Fire: Turkey and Syria
Turkey finds itself in the crossfire of an international disaster that seems to be tangling the leadership of the AKP party and Turkey’s National Intelligence Organization (MIT) into a knot it cannot seem to get out of.
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