“So let us today drudge on about our inescapably impossible task of providing every week a first rough draft of history that will never be completed about a world we can never really understand.”
Philip Graham,
Former President & Publisher
The Washington Post
With the Obama administration now pushing talks to try and end Syria’s civil war as early as next month in Geneva, a major complicating factor is the black flag of Al Qaeda that now flies…
A new report by Human Rights Watch gives an unsettling glimpse of the sectarian slaughter that could attend the collapse of the Syrian government if recent gains by Islamist extremist groups are not checked. According…
The apparent acceptance by Russia and Syria of Secretary of State John Kerry’s ad hoc proposal to put Syrian chemical weapons under international control — and thus avoid a U.S. military strike – took almost…
The horrors of the Syrian civil war have largely extinguished the hopeful mythology of the Arab Spring uprisings, and they have surely dispelled any misconceptions about the true nature of Bashar al-Assad, his close family,…
With the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving a resolution today granting President Obama authority to launch a military strike on Syria to deter the further use of chemical weapons against civilians, sources in Damascus report…