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.
A brief history of the conflict that gave the world ISIS.
Ben Carson said something super weird about China and Syria. And he keeps insisting it’s true.
“If Putin wants to knock the hell out of ISIS, I’m all for it 100 percent and I can’t understand how anybody would be against that.”
A new study shows how Assad did something other Mideast despots couldn’t: kept his officer corps from joining the uprising.
Who is fighting whom and why in Syria.
There may have been a window for the US to act in Syria. Here’s how Obama let it close.
ISIS recently became vulnerable in its heartland — and the US is trying to take advantage.
What the new deployment is and why it matters.
I asked an expert for advice about the best ways to help people displaced by Syria’s civil war.
Bashar al-Assad’s first trip abroad since the war began is an opening for Syria’s military to do the right thing.
Unforgettable HD images of what appears to be the front lines in Syria.
Could a Syria-Israel peace deal really have prevented the Syrian civil war?
“Continued heavy casualties may leave pro-regime forces vulnerable to a counterattack by Syrian rebels.”
Watch how the Syrian civil war became the mess it is today
The Syria answers say a lot about the state of the Democratic foreign policy conversation in 2015.
Its real targets are actually ISIS’s enemies.
An analyst got ahold of ISIS’s books. What he found was really revealing — and not necessarily great news for ISIS.
The US and its allies are trying to stem the flow of ISIS recruits into Iraq and Syria — and they’re failing.
The Syrian civil war itself is immensely complicated.
Ordinary Germans are taking Europe’s worst immigration crisis into their own hands — and facing imprisonment.
“When your enemy is in the process of making a mistake, do not interrupt him.”
The very basics: why this is happening, what it means for Syria (and for the US), and what it will change.
4 million people have fled Syria, and 7 million remain internally displaced.
Bashar al-Assad’s war is still unwinnable — and Putin is doubling down on a losing bet.
The secretary of state chose the worst possible moment to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Russian foreign minister.
It’s partly about Iran and could be the start of a grand bargain offer to the US — and there’s more going on beneath the surface.
Why the Russian president may have no way to win in Syria.
If you understand Russia’s real goal in Syria, it makes a crazy kind of sense.
The real reason Putin wants to protect the Assad regime.
It’s got a lot to do with Syria.
The offer came in a speech otherwise harshly criticize of Putin.
The numbers of refugees, where they are and how they get there, and the dangers and hurdles they face.
A new study identified a number of people who quit ISIS after joining up. Here’s why they left — and why these defections matter.
The media is giving Trump a pass on his supporter’s worst statements because it can’t bring itself to declare anti-Muslim bigotry out of bounds.
In July, I started teaching comics at Berlin’s Emergency Refugee Center. The work of Syrian refugees in my class has taught me things I never would have known about the crisis.
On Thursday, Donald Trump seemed to agree as a supporter ranted about Muslims and “training camps.”