Syria does not recognize the International Criminal Court, so an ICC case against Bashar Assad can only be launched by the Security Council—where Russia holds a veto.
A jet stream blockage related to climate change caused the Russian wheat crop to fail in 2010, halting exports to Syria and the Arab world, and fueling unrest and revolt.
An exchange between Kevin Zeese of Popular Resistance and Bill Weinberg of World War 4 Report on what actually constitutes solidarity with the Syrians…
A Human Rights Watch report finds that "evidence strongly suggests" the Assad regime was behind the Ghouta attack—and paleocons and "leftists" rush to refute it.
Syria’s Christians are becoming propaganda fodder in an international war of perceptions, with atrocities carried out by the jihadist Nusra Front being attributed to the FSA.
The popular meme "I didn't join the army to fight for al-Qaeda in Syria" is a betrayal of Syria's secular civil resistance—which continues even now to exist and struggle for freedom.
A young protester was killed by police in Antakya, as demonstrations re-mobilize across Turkey—this time in response to a new highway development in Ankara.
New York area Syrians came out for a "Rally to Stop Assad's War on Syria" near Times Square. Placards read: "GLOBAL SILENCE IS THE CAUSE OF ATROCITIES IN SYRIA."
Armenians, Circassians, Mandaeans and other small ethnicities in Syria are being uprooted by jihadist terror, and increasingly see the Assad regime as the lesser evil.
Jihadist forces of the Nusra Front launched an assault on the ancient Christian village of Maaloula, which is on the UNESCO tentative list of world heritage sites.
If anti-war forces in the West do not oppose Assad's war crimes and offer solidarity to the struggle against his rule, we forfeit all legitimacy to oppose Obama's intervention.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon questioned the legality of the US plan to strike Syria under the standards defined by Article 51 of the United Nations charter.
