Last week France hosted the third conference of the Group of Friends of the Syrian People, a collection of 107…
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Syria: The Citadel & the War
Archaeologists believe that human beings settled on the hilltop that became Aleppo – some 225 miles north of Damascus –…
Continue reading →Veteran Mideast Journalist Charles Glass on Syria’s Violence & the Prospect of Military Intervention
The United States and 11 other countries have formally expelled Syrian diplomats following a massacre of more than 100 people…
Continue reading →Colonial threads combine to strangle a sectarian Syria
Twenty-five years ago, I travelled by land through what geographers called Greater Syria to write a book. I began in…
Continue reading →Hyper-Retaliation
Review of Levant: Splendour and Catastrophe on the Mediterranean by Philip Mansel John Murray, 480 pp, £10.99, September 2011, ISBN…
Continue reading →As a civil war develops in Syria, reporters should not take sides
Nigeria buried the remains this week of Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, who died last November in Britain, in his village of Nweni.…
Continue reading →Aleppo betrayed by attacks that are foreign to its nature
Aleppo is a town of eminent consequence, and in all ages its fame has flown high. The kings who have…
Continue reading →Decades of foreign bumbling push Syrians towards war
Syria’s leading poet Ali Ahmad Said Asbar, better known by his nom de plume Adonis, spoke for many in his…
Continue reading →History has not been kind to Syria’s desire for change
A dog in Lebanon, an old joke goes, was so hungry, mangy and tired of civil war that he escaped…
Continue reading →US interference in Syria could bring about another Iraq
The withdrawal of most United States forces from Iraq this week is anything but the end of American military involvement…
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