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Aleppo Has Fallen. Now What?
A Free Syrian Army fighter walks among the rubble in Aleppo, October 6, 2012 (Wikimedia Commons) “I am waiting to die or be captured.” That is the farewell message of one of the handful of remaining...
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Syria’s Endgame
An American military officer points to a map showing areas of Iraq and Syria controlled by the self-proclaimed Islamic State, April 21, 2016 (DoD/Dominique A. Pineiro) It has taken at least 400,000...
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Trump Seems to Realize Assad Is No Ally Against Islamic State
American president Donald Trump reviews troops at MacDill Air Force Base, Florida, February 6 (DoD/D. Myles Cullen) It appears to have dawned on Donald Trump that a pact with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad...
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Trump Strikes Syrian Base in Wake of Chemical Attack
The American guided-missile cruiser USS Cowpens fires a missile at an airborne drone during a live fire weapons shoot in the Pacific Ocean, September 20, 2012 (USN/Paul Kelly) American cruise missiles...
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Eagerness to Criticize Obama Explains Trump’s Inconsistency on Syria
Businessman Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference in National Harbor, Maryland, February 27, 2015 (Gage Skidmore) Critics are calling Donald Trump’s missile strike against...
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Erdoğan Discovers Personality Doesn’t Trump Geopolitics
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey speaks with his Ukrainian counterpart, Petro Poroshenko, in Kiev, March 20, 2015 (Press Service of the President of Ukraine/Palinchak Mikhail) Turkey still...
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Bashar Assad’s Big Push to Recover His Eastern Border
President Bashar al-Assad of Syria enters a meeting at the Kremlin in Moscow, October 21, 2015 (Presidential Press and Information Office) Bashar al-Assad hadn’t had control of his Iraqi frontier for...
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Why America and Russia Are Closer to Confrontation in Syria
American sailors direct an EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman in the Atlantic Ocean, November 16, 2015 (USN/L.A. Preston) Russia has suspended a...
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Chemical Weapons in Syria Would Cross “Red Line”: Macron
Presidents Vladimir Putin of Russia and Emmanuel Macron of France meet outside the Palace of Versailles, May 29 (Elysée) France’s new president, Emmanuel Macron, has warned that his country could...
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Trump Gives Putin What He Wants, Pulls Support from Syrian Rebels
Presidents Donald Trump of the United States and Emmanuel Macron of France inspect an honor guard in Paris, July 13 (White House/Shealah Craighead) Donald Trump has given Vladimir Putin a win in Syria...
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Lies and Distraction from Trump, Putin’s Dangerous War in Syria
American president Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, arrive at King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, May 20, 2017 (White House/Shealah Craighead) First the lies: Just like they...
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Orbán’s Rebellion, Liberal Democracy and Trump’s War in Syria
Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbán and Russian president Vladimir Putin answer questions from reporters in Moscow, February 17, 2016 (Facebook/Viktor Orbán) Hungary’s Viktor Orbán is likely to win...
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Italy’s Democrats Split, EU Victory for Macron, Doubts About Syria Strikes
Italian culture minister Dario Franceschini answers questions from reporters in Rome, April 29, 2016 (Palazzo Chigi) Italy’s Democrats are split on whether to negotiate with the anti-establishment Five...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Airstrikes in Syria
American defense secretary James Mattis delivers a news conference at the Pentagon in Washington DC, April 13 (DoD/Amber I. Smith) Britain, France and the United States attacked three targets in Syria...
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Americans Want Voting Reform, Analysis of Trump’s Attack on Syria
An old-fashioned lever voting machine used in New York City, New York, November 4, 2008 (Caren Litherland) A Voice Of the People poll has found (PDF) majority support in the United States for...
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Macron’s German Challenge, What America Should Attempt in Syria
French president Emmanuel Macron gives a speech in the European Parliament in Strasbourg, April 17 (European Parliament) Eric Maurice writes in EUobserver that French president Emmanuel Macron’s...
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Trump’s Withdrawal from Syria Is a Disaster
Presidents Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Turkey and Donald Trump of the United States pose for photos in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington DC, May 16, 2017 (Turkish Presidency) The calamity of...
View ArticleTrump Seems to Realize Assad Is No Ally Against Islamic State
It appears to have dawned on Donald Trump that a pact with Syria’s Bashar al-Assad against the Islamists in his country makes no sense. “It’s very, very possible, and, I will tell you, it’s already...
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Trump Strikes Syrian Base in Wake of Chemical Attack
The American cruiser USS Cowpens fires a missile during an exercise in the Pacific Ocean, September 20, 2012 (USN/Paul Kelly) American cruise missiles struck a Syrian air base near Homs early on Friday...
View ArticleEagerness to Criticize Obama Explains Trump’s Inconsistency on Syria
Critics are calling Donald Trump’s missile strike against Syria a flip flop, but it’s really the logical outcome of holding two wildly inconsistent opinions on an issue. In 2013, Trump said to...
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