A UN fact-finding commission will investigate the charges.
Is a Desperate Assad Lashing Out With Chemical Weapons?
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Middle East & North Africa
King Abdullah of Jordan Learns How Loaded His Gestures, Words, and Facial Expressions Are
The carelessness with which King Abdullah conducted his Atlantic interview was a disaster that could easily have been prevented.
Echoes of Occupy in Western Sahara
Even with millions of dollars of aid at its disposal, it seems unlikely that Morocco will be able to put off the issue of Western Sahara’s right to sovereignty indefinitely. The Gdeim Izik case has drawn the scrutiny and condemnation of the international press, and already the sentenced prisoners have planned a hunger strike to protest their trial and the torture many of them received while detained.
The Somaliazation of Syria
As Syria’s civil war enters its third year, the country’s humanitarian crisis worsens each day and the Levant grows increasingly vulnerable to the conflict’s spillover. Unless a tactical shift in the balance of power occurs, it is unlikely that either the regime or the rebels will gain control of Syria’s entire territory, leaving open the possibility that the state will fragment along sectarian lines.
America’s Other Dark Legacy In Iraq
Although the breathtaking violence that attended Iraq’s descent into sectarian nightmare has been well documented in many retrospectives on the 10-year-old war, what’s often overlooked is that by far more mundane standards, the United States did a spectacularly poor job of governing Iraq.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/22)
Emphasis, as always, added.
Is Egypt Being Primed for a Coup?
On top of everything else, workers across Egypt have been on strike.
Way Worse Than a Dumb War: Iraq Ten Years Later
US troops left behind a devastated, tortured Iraq. Our real obligation, to the people of Iraq and the region and the rest of the world, is to transform our government and our country so that these resource-driven wars, shaped by lies and fought for power and for empire, whether in Iran or somewhere else, can never be waged again.
Emphasis Added: The Foreign Policy Week in Pieces (3/19)
Is a country ever mature enough to possess a nuclear-weapons program?
“The Gatekeepers”: “We Became Cruel”
Cold-blooded killers see the light?