Articles
The YouTube War
In a conflict that has already yielded too many scenes of graphic horror, it takes a mere 27 seconds of video footage to plumb new depths of depravity. Posted on...
Syria’s Assad Says He Won’t Step Down
(BEIRUT) — Syrian President Bashar Assad said in a newspaper interview Saturday he won't step down and will instead "face the storm," raising new doubts about a...
Top Russian Diplomat Explains Reasons for Syrian Arms Sales
In the past two weeks, the U.S. and its allies have done just about everything short of getting down on their collective knees and begging Russia to stop...
Syrian Troops Flush Out Rebels from Prison
(BEIRUT) — Syrian government troops on Thursday flushed out rebels who had stormed a prison compound in the northern city of Aleppo in a bid to free hundreds of...
Turkish PM Talks Syria With Obama at White House
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama said Thursday that the U.S. and Turkey will keep ramping up pressure to oust Syrian President Bashar Assad from power, but...
Photo Essays
Aleppo: Scenes from a City of Ruins
Italian photographer Alessio Romenzi has been chronicling the Syrian civil war for months. The following pictures of his are from a few days in mid-April spent...
Chaos and Killing in Syria: Photos of a Slow-Motion Civil War
Nearly two years ago, Arab Spring–inspired protests kicked off in the impoverished Syrian agricultural town of Dara‘a. The mini-uprising, defined by its peaceful...
Articles from Around the Web
Syria's Assad dubious of U. S. - Russia peace initiative
In an interview with an Argentine newspaper, President Bashar Assad ... BEIRUT -- Syrian President Bashar Assad has expressed skepticism that a planned U.S.-Russian peace conference...
Syrian soldiers warned daily of sectarian dangers, defectors say
The rising divisions may guarantee that fighting will continue even if President Bashar Assad falls, setting the stage for a civil war between Sunni, Alawite, Shiite and other...
U. S. decries Russia weapons sale to Syria
Joint chiefs chairman says the missiles, as well as Russia's buildup of warships in the region, will' embolden' President Bashar Assad. WASHINGTON -- The Obama...
Syria portrait master finds new audience
REYHANLI, Turkey -- On the second floor of a nursery school in a Turkish border town, artist Nader Haj Kadour preferred talking about painting butterflies than painting Syrian President Bashar Assad ...
