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'The right thing to do', or plain folly: should we intervene in Syria?
Should the West intervene in Syria? Idealists and sceptics are at odds over how best to stop the ongoing bloodshed. Here are some of their arguments. Over 14,000 people have now been killed in Syria...
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How Asma al-Assad’s Vogue profiler duped herself
Joan Juliet Buck, author of Vogue’s infamous “Asma al-Assad: A Rose in the Desert” piece, has given her version of the story in a piece titled, “Mrs. Assad Duped Me”. But the Syrian First Lady didn’t...
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Goodbye 'freedom fries': France’s mojo rises over Syria
In the lead-up to the Iraq War, the French were "cheese-eating surrender monkeys". A decade later, France is now America's staunchest ally on Syria. How did France turn from a white flag-fluttering...
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American 'freedom fighter' Matthew VanDyke releases film on Syria
After considerable online buzz, self-styled “American freedom fighter" and documentary filmmaker Matthew VanDyke has released the short film he directed about the Syrian conflict. Last week, following...
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Al Qaeda's Possible Collapse in Syria
There are two competing visions of radical jihadism in Syria articulated by two rival groups KUWAIT CITY ― Kuwait recently joined Saudi Arabia in criminalizing the participation of its citizens in...
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Ignoring the Syrian side of the Sykes-Picot line
ISIS delivers a multilingual, postcolonial, post-national, proto-caliphate jihadist message to beat all prior propaganda ploys. So, why are we divorcing Iraq from Syria? And why do we always ignore a...
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Why we got it wrong on Syria and Ukraine
As the Syrian conflict enters its fifth year, I can’t help noticing a common theme with the crisis in Ukraine. This week has no shortage of grim anniversaries in terms of the news. The Syrian conflict...
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A new brute takes over Palmyra’s notorious Tadmur Prison
Situated in Palmyra, near some of the world’s most beautiful ancient ruins, Syria’s notorious Tadmur Prison has fallen from one brutal boss to another. The fall of Palmyra to ISIS has sparked two...
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