Like many boys in Antwerp, Brian De Mulder dreamed of being a professional footballer. His favorite team was continental …
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Iraq’s Sectarian Violence: Bombings Plunge Country Into Deadly Spiral
In early January 2006, less than a month after I arrived in Iraq as a young U.S. Army lieutenant, I witnessed my first act of violence committed against Iraqi civilians. While on a patrol on a highway 20 km south of Baghdad, a …
How Syria’s Rebels Aren’t Winning the War: The Anatomy of a Battle
The short message screeched over a walkie-talkie, prompting the half a dozen rebels in the room who had been lounging on flat mattresses and drinking tea to jump to their feet, grab their guns and run out of the door. It was …
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 delivering weapons to the Syrian government. President Vladimir Putin has …
Turkey’s Erdogan Visits the U.S.: 4 Problems That Won’t Be Solved
As domestic scandals clouded Washington, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived for a U.S. visit enveloped in his own fog. The Turkish Premier has been one of the most outspoken international statesmen on the need …
Savage Online Videos Fuel Syria’s Descent Into Madness
A video shows what appears to be a shocking atrocity from the battlefields of Syria
Hizballah and Israel Spar as Syria’s Conflict Threatens to Spin Out of Control
A dangerous game of brinkmanship is unfolding in the Middle East pitting Israel against Syria and its militant Shi‘ite ally Hizballah in what threatens to expand the two-year Syrian civil war into a full-blown regional …
Syria’s Lurking Terror: A History of Sarin Gas
Reports of chemical-weapons attacks have hovered like a cloud over the bloody conflict in Syria for at least half a year, with both the Syrian opposition and the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad accusing the …
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A record number of civil war victims are found in Syria, Denmark tries to lean its citizens off generous government benefits and a Chinese official has called for the country’s 100 million religious believers to abandon their …
Syria’s Survival: Heads of U.N. Agencies Make Joint Plea to International Community
It takes a major crisis for the U.N.’s humanitarian agencies, often rivals, to speak with one voice. But the calamitous death and destruction in Syria prodded five chiefs of U.N. organizations to issue a desperate joint plea on …
Why Reports of Chemical Weapons Attacks in Syria May Never Be Confirmed
Updated April 13, 2013
One witness said he smelled chlorine. Another remembered the scent of rotting garbage. There were photos of dead farm animals in a yard, and video footage of survivors struggling to breathe. But of the …
The Women Warriors of the Free Syrian Army
Emerging from the shadows of their secret command outpost in the war-torn city of Aleppo, these members of an all-female fighting unit posed for portraits.
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March is the deadliest month so far in Syria’s two-year conflict, Sudan orders the release of political prisoners, and Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party is planning to expand abroad
