Obama's UN speech pledged: "We will ensure the free flow of energy" from the Middle East. Yet intervention risks a conflagration that could threaten imperial control of the oil reserves.
As the Free Syrian Army now battles jihadist rebels as well as the regime, the two biggest jihadist factions are fighting each other for control over oilfields in Syria’s north.
The UN announced that inspectors have returned to Syria to investigate seven chemical weapon attacks, including three that occurred after the Aug. 21 incident in Damascus.
An Egyptian court banned the Muslim Brotherhood and ordered its assets confiscated as part of the military government’s crackdown on the group.
International "human shields" in Damascus are occupying Mount Qasioun—site of the Republican Guard base from which the rockets in the Ghouta attacks were launched.
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.
