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Over the last several decades, governments have collectively pledged to slow global warming. But despite intensified diplomacy, the world is already facing the consequences of climate…
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October 2, 2017
Syria
Turkey’s Incursion Into Syria: Making Things Better or Worse?
Syria’s conflict just got more tangled, but there’s some hope in the deal struck by Russia, Turkey and Iran.
August 23, 2014
Middle East and North Africa
On Attacking the "Islamic State" in Syria
The threat to the United States and to American interests from the “Islamic State” is now obvious and has been acknowledged by President Obama and his entire administration. The Attorney General and …
June 19, 2013
Middle East and North Africa
Syria and the 700 Sorties
Yesterday the columnist Jeffrey Goldberg reported that Secretary of State Kerry argued, inside the Obama administration, for air strikes on Syrian regime air bases, especially those from which chemic…
March 29, 2012
United States
Abandoning Syria
With 9,000 Syrians dead and the Assad regime increasingly isolated and under political, moral, military assault, it appears that the Obama Administration has made its choice: it is abandoning efforts…
May 16, 2012
Iran
Hezbollah Fighters in Syria
While there has been considerable discussion in the United States about jihadis who may be fighting in Syria against the Assad regime, less attention has been paid to the presence of Hezbollah fighte…