Mission Accomplished for Putin in Syria? Yes And No
The intervention managed to keep Bashar Assad in power, but Russia is not out of the woods yet.
The intervention managed to keep Bashar Assad in power, but Russia is not out of the woods yet.
The Russian leader starts to pull his troops out of Syria after six months.
The Egyptian strongman has to balance the interests of the army, security services, judges and tycoons.
Regional factors have arrayed in the Kurds’ favor. Things might not stay the same for long.
Relatively moderate and well-educated rebels weren’t numerous enough to lead the Syrian opposition.
The Palestinian militant group celebrates a series of attacks that leave fourteen wounded and one dead.
Outsiders could give Iran’s otherwise doomed revolution a new lease on life if they prove the hardliners right.
Decisions in the country are made by a cabal who care little about its elected institutions.
Syria may not be put back together again, but partitioning it now would be to invite ethnic cleansing.
Saudi rulers are seeking in war a social glue they cannot find elsewhere to hold their subjects together.
Turkey accuses a Syrian rebel group for the attacks in its capital and holds Russia responsible as well.
By backing the Kurds in Syria, Russia is driving a wedge between Turkey and its NATO allies.
World powers agree that the fighting in Syria must stop — but not for another week.
Or it did, but then switched back to religion again when the ideologies it had imported from Europe failed.
Reclaiming the city for the regime would go a long way toward stamping out Syria’s non-Islamic State opposition.