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International efforts, such as the Paris Agreement, aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But experts say countries aren’t doing enough to limit dangerous global warming.
May 27, 2012
Middle East and North AfricaHeadlines around the world this weekend tell of a massacre in Syria: artillery killed ninety people, of whom a third were children, in one village. The Assad regime has of course denied responsibilit…
July 25, 2016
Middle East and North AfricaThe Washington Post reported that the Assad regime, continuing its reign of terror, bombed four hospitals in Aleppo yesterday. Here is a part of the Post report: A relative calm in the nor…
September 18, 2013
United StatesSenator John McCain spoke about Syria yesterday here at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington. His remarks are the best explanation of the American interests at stake and the best critique o…
July 8, 2015
IranThe war in Syria is becoming increasingly an Iranian war rather than a civil war. Consider this new report by Now Lebanon, entitled "Syria Alawites reportedly clash with regime, Iran troops." Two fa…
April 26, 2016
Middle East and North AfricaPresident Obama has been in Europe this week. In the U.K., he told the Brits not to think of leaving the E.U. In Germany, he said that So this is a defining moment. And what happens on this c…