Over the last several weeks, ISIS has been systematically losing territory. Its last stronghold in Iraq, the city of Hawija, was liberated in early October. A few weeks later, ISIS’ de-facto capital in Raqqa, Syria fell to US-backed forces. ISIS...
New travel restrictions imposed by the United States hurts ordinary people for one reason only: their nationality. Jan Egeland is the head of the Norwegian Refugee Council, one of the world’s largest humanitarian organizations. He is also the former top...
Amid all the pageantry, hoopla and media circus that is UN week in New York there is always some interesting and substantive work being done on important global issues. Sometimes these issues are not on top of the agenda of...
Six years in, the conflict in Syria is synonymous now with the brutality of war. Currently, there are more than 5.1 million registered Syrian refugees with another 6.3 million Syrians displaced within the country. The number killed is harder to...
Moscow cast its eighth veto at the Security Council in defense of the Syrian government yesterday. The vote in question would have dispatched a team of UN investigators to the site of the chemical weapons attack and compelled the Syrian...
The Trump Administration has produced various rationales for its decision last week to launch cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase after the Syrian government used chemical weapons to attack and kill Syrian civilians. In his remarks just after the U.S....
With news of a horrific chemical weapons attack in Syria, the Security Council is holding an emergency meeting today. If past is prologue, the following things will probably happen: First, the Council will issue a statement unanimously condemning the attack...
The very first Russia v. USA showdown over Syria is poised to take place at the United Nations in the next week. At issue is a resolution pending at the Security Council that would, among other things, sanction Syrian government...
As the Syria civil war enters its seventh year, the outcome of the conflict no longer seems in doubt. With some 400,000 people killed and over 11 million Syrian displaced, its appears likely that the Syrian government will likely prevail...