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This week’s joint US, UK, French aerial attack on Syria may not change the course of the civil war in…

Read This to Know What It’s Like in Syria

Ground level reporting of war is one of the most valuable forms of journalism, in that it tells you what’s…

Beirut— Less than fifteen months ago, everything seemed to be going well for Vladimir Putin in his client state of…

July 25, 2017

BEIRUT — Lebanon, a country seemingly always under existential siege from forces inside and out, is trying to navigate a…

(Story on Egypt as it appeared on the Washington Post website) By Daniel Williams Global Opinions April 10 at 4:37…

April 7, 2017

President Donald Trump enforced Barack Obama’s porous red line on chemical weapons and in so doing has made it possible,…

(From The Washington Post) President Trump dropped a sectarian bombshell on Friday into his quick and confused order to curb…

London–Wow, Obama and Putin. That was some ceasefire in Syria you guys signed-off on. Forces of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and rebels…

Rome—Maybe after five years of awful turmoil, tens of thousands of deaths, millions of refugees and vast destruction of cities,…

May 25, 2016

Rome–The chief cleric at al-Azhar, the mosque and university complex in Cairo that is one of Sunni Islam’s most important…