What the psychology of mass murderers — from Charles Manson on up to Bashar al-Assad and ISIS — can teach us about the method behind their madness.
Posts Tagged: Bashar Al-Assad
The only sensible solution to the Syrian crisis is a quantum one in which Bashar al-Assad is simultaneously there and not there.
Hospital workers in Syria, barely able to keep up with demand, are desperate to reduce the supply. Their plea: stop the killing.
Syria has become a failed state. Now it's time for the UN to treat it like one.
No one who predicted disaster from Washington's intervention in Syria should expect anything different from Russia's.
Syrian military photographer Caesar, who documented the dead bodies, exhibited a moral courage beyond the ken of most of us.
An influx of Iranian troops into Syria is complementing Russian airstrikes in attempting to shore up the Assad regime.
Putin’s attempt at "shock and awe" in Syria has all the hallmarks of failed U.S. interventions of the past
The Saudis and the Turks are scaling up their support for Syrian jihadists while the Israelis contemplate a new war with Hezbollah.
In the post-Cold War era, the right and even some on the left are playing a new game of "Who's your favorite dictator?"