Just 36 days into his presidency, Joe Biden launched airstrikes against Iranian-backed militias in Syria, marking the first major military operation of the new administration. The bombings killed 22 people.
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In the days leading up to the election it seems that all news coverage is focusing on Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Unfortunately, the spectacle of this election has overshadowed events in the Middle...
By Karim Oliver
This is the first installment of a series on Syrian refugees in Nashville.
Professor Issam Eido taught his last class at the University of Damascus in December of 2011. It was the...
The beginning of the Syrian conflict is most commonly cited as March 2011 in the southern city of Deraa. Following the arrest and subsequent torture of 15 children for drawing anti-government propaganda,...
“We mustn’t be afraid of this ‘Arab spring’… [it] sparks tremendous hope.”
These were the words of Alain Juppé, former French Prime Minister and later Minister of Foreign and European Affairs....
In the midst of violence and poverty, Syrian refugees have recently come to represent the largest refugee population in the world. Syria is overrun with disorder as they go into the fifth year of their...
The War on Terror just doesn’t end. With ISIS grabbing recent media headlines as the face of global terrorism, President Obama has done exactly what every military advisor told him not to do: engaged...
In what began as an ad lib comment by John Kerry — that Assad surrender his chemical weapons to the international community, or else! — and culminated in a Russian-brokered deal to do just that, Syria...
