Syria
Syria’s civil war began in 2012. After several years and hundreds of thousands of lives lost, it still hasn’t ended and actually may have gotten more complex.
The situation in Syria is terrible. Further US intervention might make it worse.
This is what Putin and Assad have wrought.
Staffan de Mistura is done messing around.
Whatever foreign policy Mike Pence just outlined, it’s not Donald Trump’s.
The dusty, two-lane highway linking Turkey and the starving Syrian city of Aleppo, mapped.
Johnson: “I’m having a brain…”
Sectarian rhetoric is getting pretty intense.
Comparing Russia and Syrian airstrikes to US-led coalition ones is really, really revealing.
Behind the war on Syria’s medical workers.
Protests in Charlotte after an (un?)(armed?) black man is killed by police; the US and Russia make a UN Security Council meeting on Syria super awkward; Brangelina, and America.
A new ceasefire in Syria (that may have been violated within an hour); Hillary Clinton adds illness to insult; hey, remember Brexit? What’s up with that, anyway?
Here’s what the agreement does, why it matters, and how it might fail.
Gary Johnson doesn’t know what Aleppo is; Matt Lauer doesn’t know how to moderate.
What happens when a “safe zone” isn’t safe?
Being secretary of state and being president are two different things.
The battle for Mosul won’t be easy.
“It would have been obviously better to do it 2 million refugees ago.”
President Erdoğan’s post-coup crackdown could cause major problems.
When dealing with political unrest in partner countries, the US almost always loses.
“An angry mob of do-gooders.” Happy Canada Day!
A stark difference.
Putin proved something important in Syria.
A small sign that the dream of democracy is not totally dead in Syria.
The Washington sausage factory tends to produce incoherent foreign policy that satisfies no one, regardless of what the president thinks.
What Russia’s six-month war really accomplished.
The Russian leader declares mission accomplished — but is this about his victories or his defeats?
It’s time to choose peace over justice in Syria.
This is part of a much bigger problem.
Further US intervention has little chance of succeeding, and in fact is far more likely to worsen the conflict.
ISIS’s expansion efforts have ran into some real successes — but also some major failures.
There are no good solutions for the war in Syria. An expert lays out the five bad ones we do have.
Whoa.
One of the most important developments in Syria today, explained.
A very small and still-uncertain victory — but still worth celebrating.
Syria and ISIS are going to come up a lot in the president campaign. Here’s what they’re not telling you.
“It feels incredibly dangerous.”
The world’s latest attempt to end the Syrian war lasted less than five days.