Turkey Threatens U.S. Troops in Syria
Action, reaction. American forces raced for the Syria/Turkish border last week after Turkish warplanes bombed Kurdish fighters allied...
International Crisis Group 1
May 4, 2017
The PKK’s Fateful Choice in Northern Syria
Executive Summary Six years into Syria’s civil war, the military and political map in the north has been dramatically redrawn. The most...
Andrew Doran, Robert Nicholson
May 2, 2017
Security in the Aftermath of ISIS
President Trump has garnered reams of coverage and criticism for his executive order on refugees, but so far the press has shown little...
Human Rights Watch
May 1, 2017
Syria Chemical Attacks Use Nerve Agents
On April 4, 2017, an attack with chemical weapons struck Khan Sheikhoun, a town in northwestern Syria, killing at least 89 people. While...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 28, 2017
Fighting ISIS: The Road to and beyond Raqqa
Overview In Raqqa the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) faces its toughest test to date in Syria. The primary...
Genocide Watch
Apr 27, 2017
Syria: ‘Glimmers of humanity’ overshadowed by brutality of attacks on civilians, says UN aid chief
Families evacuated from East Ghouta, Syria, congregate in the courtyard of the Dahit Qudsayya collective shelter for basic aid. Photo:...
New York Times 1
Apr 24, 2017
U.N. Documents Syrian War Crimes, but Prosecution Moves Slowly
A rebel-held neighborhood in Daraa, Syria, after air strikes on Sunday. Members of a United Nations commission investigating war crimes...
London Review of Books
Apr 21, 2017
The Syrian War: Adam Shatz talks to Joshua Landis
Transcript In this episode of the LRB podcast, Adam Shatz talks to Joshua Landis about Syria. Joshua Landis is the Director of the Centre...
Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev;
Apr 20, 2017
Russian marine major killed in combat in Syria: agencies
A Russian marine major has been killed in combat in Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, confirming an earlier report that...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 13, 2017
Instruments of Pain: Conflict and Famine
The last time the UN declared a famine was in 2011, in Somalia. The last time it faced more than one major famine simultaneously was more...
CNN 1
Apr 12, 2017
Bodies of 1,500 Yazidis found in northern Iraq since 2015, says official
By Muhammad Jambaz and Sarah Sirgany Irbil, Iraq (CNN) - The bodies of between 1,300 and 1,500 members of the Yazidi minority have been...
CNN 1
Apr 10, 2017
Inside the tense closed-door UN Security Council deliberations on Syria
New York (CNN)The US missile strikes in Syria Thursday night exploded just as the UN Security Council in New York concluded a closed-door...
