A Turkish military incursion against Qaedist rebels in Syria comes amid claims that al-Qaeda affiliates have seized the country's oilfields and are planning attacks on the West.
World War 4 Report offers its annual annotated assessment of Obama's moves in dismantling, continuing or escalating the apparatus of the Global War on Terrorism.
Amnesty International and other rights groups are demanding that the Geneva conference must address claims of "industrial-scale" massacres and torture in Syria.
The Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus came under bombardment by the Bashar Assad regime's TNT-filled "barrel-bombs," leaving several dead.
Syrian rebels launched an offensive against the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—just as the Qaeda-inspired army has seized the Iraqi towns of Fallujah and Ramadi.
Assad's partisans tout a supposed massacre by jihadists near Damascus, while igonoring the much larger and thoroughly verified one being carried out by the regime in Aleppo.
US activists are fasting in solidarity with Syrian civil resistance figure Qusai Zakarya, who is on hunger strike to protest the siege of over 30 towns by the Assad regime.
The UN Palestine refugee agency warns that thousands of refugees at Yarmouk camp in Damascus are at risk due to the ongoing siege of the camp by Syrian regime forces.
Some aghast at the suffering of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are strangely unconcerned with that in Yarmouk, the Damascus refugee camp now besieged by Syrian regime forces.
Ex-CIA director Michael Hayden says Bashar Assad is the best option for stability in Syria—while the White House now considers arming jihadist rebels.
The US ironically announces a halt in aid to the Syrian rebels on the same day that the UN concludes there have been multiple chemical attacks in the country this year.
​Lebanon's government has ordered the coastal city of Tripoli placed under army control amid growing sectarian clashes pitting Sunni residents against Alawites.
