Did politics prevent President Obama from arming Syria's rebels?
Posted on February 8, 2013, at 12:05 PMTop members of Obama's national security team urged him to provide more support to the opposition — but to no avail
Israel's strike on the Syria-Lebanon border: 3 repercussions
Posted on January 30, 2013, at 4:10 PMThe attack reportedly targeted trucks carrying missiles to Hezbollah in Lebanon. Could this widen Syria's war?
Syria's deepening humanitarian crisis: By the numbers
Posted on January 9, 2013, at 7:18 AMBetween the civil war, winter weather, and global indifference, Syria is rapidly sliding toward disaster
D.B. Grady: How American inaction is killing Syrians
Posted on January 2, 2013, at 8:40 AM45,000 Syrians are dead. And all Western leaders do is talk
Is Bashar al-Assad nearly finished?
Posted on December 17, 2012, at 3:00 PMThe Syrian president's army fights on, but his allies appear to be preparing for the end of his reign
D.B. Grady: Syria's PR campaign failed — and so did America's policy
Posted on December 14, 2012, at 11:50 AMBashar al-Assad is on his last legs, but his campaign to crush the rebellion in Syria got a boost from Washington's astonishingly weak stance
Has Bashar al-Assad lost control of Syria?
Posted on December 13, 2012, at 3:08 PMRussia is the embattled Syrian president's closest and most important ally, yet leaders in Moscow are conceding that he may be doomed
NATO missiles on the Turkey-Syria border: A big blow to Assad?
Posted on December 5, 2012, at 3:20 PMThe western military alliance is moving to the front lines for the first time in Syria's 20-month civil war
Why Bashar al-Assad unplugged the internet in Syria
Posted on November 29, 2012, at 12:35 PMEarly Thursday morning, the war-torn Mideast nation disappeared from the internet. What happened?
Have Syria's fractious rebels finally united?
Posted on November 12, 2012, at 10:55 AMAs the bloody civil war drags on, opposition groups form an umbrella organization to lead the fight against the Syrian regime
Daniel Larison: Why Obama will keep ignoring Syria in his second term
Posted on November 9, 2012, at 6:21 AMMany second-term presidents turn to foreign policy if they're viewed as lame ducks domestically. But don't expect Obama to go off starting wars
3 ways the Syria ceasefire could go wrong
Posted on October 24, 2012, at 3:35 PMThe U.N.'s peace envoy says Syria's warring sides have agreed to stop fighting during Islam's Eid al-Adha holiday. Will the truce happen — and would it do any good?
Is U.S. policy helping jihadists in Syria?
Posted on October 15, 2012, at 3:45 PMMost of the arms meant for pro-democracy rebels are ending up in the hands of Islamists, reports The New York Times
Is Turkey trying to start a war with Syria?
Posted on October 9, 2012, at 3:07 PMSyria and Turkey have been exchanging mortar blasts across their shared border for six days, but it's not quite clear who's the aggressor
Is Syria's war spreading to Turkey?
Posted on October 4, 2012, at 12:08 PMTurkey lobs artillery shells into Syria for two days straight, raising fears that the Syrian conflict could engulf the region
Are Syria's rebels guilty of war crimes?
Posted on September 21, 2012, at 1:06 PMA leading international human rights champion charges that Bashar al-Assad's regime isn't the only organized Syrian group committing crimes against humanity
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