More Aid to the Syrian Rebels Would Not Have Stopped ISIS
The if-only-we'd-intervened-more crowd has a new argument.
The if-only-we'd-intervened-more crowd has a new argument.
In poll after poll, Americans reject policies that might put U.S. troops in harm's way.
Don't believe haters like Rick Perry and Chris Christie. A libertarian foreign policy is the only cure for what ails us abroad.
The beef ISIS has is with the government in Iraq, not the U.S.
Estimates that 5.5 million have been affected by the ongoing civil war
Whenever the United States fails to use violence abroad-a rarity-politicians and pundits howl about America's "credibility" being at stake.
Russia doesn't want diplomats to "politicize" the issue
Bloodiest period came after the Geneva peace conference
Hundreds of civilians have been evacuated since the cease-fire began
According to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons
Over 230 people have been killed every day since Jan. 22
Trying to flush rebels out of a border town
Including how to expel foreign fighters on both sides
Government and opposition representatives met face to face today
Peace talks resuming
United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-has also called for an "Olympic truce"
Describes the situation in Syria as a "stalemate"
Both rebel and government forces blames for abuse
Less likely that rebels will force him out
Trying to boost the Nusra front
The Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant has been fighting rebels in Syria
Lakhdar Brahimi adds that some common ground between the government and opposition representatives has been found
According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights
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