Fighting ISIS: The Road to and beyond Raqqa
Overview In Raqqa the U.S.-led coalition to defeat the Islamic State (ISIS) faces its toughest test to date in Syria. The primary...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 28, 2017
Syria: ‘Glimmers of humanity’ overshadowed by brutality of attacks on civilians, says UN aid chief
Families evacuated from East Ghouta, Syria, congregate in the courtyard of the Dahit Qudsayya collective shelter for basic aid. Photo:...
Genocide Watch
Apr 27, 2017
U.N. Documents Syrian War Crimes, but Prosecution Moves Slowly
A rebel-held neighborhood in Daraa, Syria, after air strikes on Sunday. Members of a United Nations commission investigating war crimes...
New York Times 1
Apr 24, 2017
The Syrian War: Adam Shatz talks to Joshua Landis
Transcript In this episode of the LRB podcast, Adam Shatz talks to Joshua Landis about Syria. Joshua Landis is the Director of the Centre...
London Review of Books
Apr 21, 2017
Russian marine major killed in combat in Syria: agencies
A Russian marine major has been killed in combat in Syria, Russian news agencies reported on Thursday, confirming an earlier report that...
Reporting by Maria Tsvetkova and Anton Zverev;
Apr 20, 2017
Instruments of Pain: Conflict and Famine
The last time the UN declared a famine was in 2011, in Somalia. The last time it faced more than one major famine simultaneously was more...
International Crisis Group 1
Apr 13, 2017
Bodies of 1,500 Yazidis found in northern Iraq since 2015, says official
By Muhammad Jambaz and Sarah Sirgany Irbil, Iraq (CNN) - The bodies of between 1,300 and 1,500 members of the Yazidi minority have been...
CNN 1
Apr 12, 2017
Inside the tense closed-door UN Security Council deliberations on Syria
New York (CNN)The US missile strikes in Syria Thursday night exploded just as the UN Security Council in New York concluded a closed-door...
CNN 1
Apr 10, 2017
'Pockets of famine' already exist in Yemen, ITV News learns
Maram's father can't stop her crying as she battles severe malnutrition. Credit: ITV News Parts of Yemen are now in famine, according to...
Paul Tyson | ITV News
Apr 10, 2017
The Grim Logic Behind Syria’s Chemical Weapons Attack
By Anne Barnard It was the first time the White House had ordered military action against forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad....
New York Times 1
Apr 6, 2017
Worst Chemical Attack in Years in Syria; U.S. Blames Assad
By Anne Barnard and Michael R. Gordon The body of a child after a reported gas attack on Tuesday in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun in...
New York Times 1
Apr 5, 2017
‘The hospitals were slaughterhouses’: A journey into Syria’s secret torture wards
A woman looks at images smuggled out of Syria on display at the United Nations in New York in 2015. (Lucas Jackson/Reuters) BEIRUT — One...
Louisa Loveluck and Zakaria Zakaria | The
Apr 2, 2017
