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.
Homs used to be called “the capital of the revolution.” Today, it’s a disaster zone.
Colombia brings a 50-year civil war to an end; the Syrian peace talks are over before they begin; the truth behind Barbie’s body diversity revamp.
Really. The law just passed.
He reportedly tried and failed to push out Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. He might have no plan B.
Chris Christie should be ashamed.
The situation points to a grim truth about the war in Syria.
It goes back to the roots of the Mormon faith.
There are signs that Assad’s most important ally is getting ready to see him go.
The investigative journalist says the Pentagon conducted a secret alliance with Assad and Putin to undermine Obama.
Some striking numbers from a new report.
Ludicrous, even for him.
A new Banksy mural points out that the iconic Apple founder was the son of a Syrian.
“In Canada, we believe that your heart is big enough to love Syria and and to love Canada.”
As US politics gets more xenophobic, Canada is moving in the opposite direction.
Watch the powerful speech that convinced the British parliament to approve airstrikes in Syria.
...and the Labour Party’s already at war with itself.
“I suspect Moscow is not keen to start yet another diplomatic war, let alone anything more than that.”
A leading expert explains.
The Russians have been taunting the Turks for a while now.
A guide to a suddenly prominent ethnic minority — and associated rebel group — in Syria.
But it should still make us ask: What if this had happened in Eastern Europe, where the danger is much higher?
Most ominously, he threatens “serious consequences” for relations between Russia and Turkey, a NATO ally.
No, it’s not the start of World War III. But this is still a big deal.
“No terrorist in their right mind would choose this path when the visa process requires far less effort.”
ISIS’s weaknesses are numerous. But the group is a problem that the world seems unable to solve. Why?
What does ISIS want? Why do people join? What does religion have to do with it?
What’s wrong with assuming that Syrian refugees can just go to nearby countries.
It even made him “grateful for the internet.”
A bill that would require three top government officials to personally sign off on every single Syrian refugee coming to the US just passed the House — with a veto-proof majority.
The United States has offered refugee status to 1,869 Syrian immigrants in 2015. Of those refugees, 1,651 live in the states where governors currently say they will no longer allow Syrian refugees to enter.
The US has resettled fewer than 0.05 percent of all Syrian refugees.
As in, he says internment was a good thing.
For the nonprofit organizations in charge of helping refugees settle in the US, life is about to get a lot harder.
Fred Hof explains the rise of ISIS — and how he thinks the US abetted it.
Because it’s 2015, so of course it could.
In the wake of Friday’s deadly terrorist attacks in Paris, 26 governors issued statements saying they would bar Syrian refugees from settling in their states as of Monday afternoon.
“In the face of terror, will we panic, or be calm and deliberative in approach?”
There are some big problems with the argument that we have to bar refugees to prevent terrorism.
Refugees aren’t just slipping into the US. Screening takes two years, and it’s nearly impossible for people to pass.