Syria
13 April 2018
Donald Trump and his hangers on Theresa May and French president Emmanuel Macron have paused attacking Syria—for now.
10 April 2018
The bluster and grandstanding of Western leaders over horrific deaths in Syria gets ever more hypocritical, ghoulish—and dangerous.
03 April 2018
A British SAS soldier was killed in Syria last week—despite a vote in parliament against British army intervention there.
21 March 2018
Jad Bouharoun traces the rise and fall of the rebellion on the outskirts of Damascus
13 March 2018
Turkish soldiers looked set to launch an assault on the Kurdish-held city of Afrin in northern Syria this week
23 February 2018
The Syrian regime’s horrific bombing in Ghouta is the legacy of a defeated revolution and a struggle for power over the Middle East
20 February 2018
Syria is undoubtedly the most dangerous place in the world at the moment.
13 February 2018
Israel took the Middle East one step closer to a major war last weekend
23 January 2018
In a Middle East tormented by the domination of Western imperialism, the Kurdish people have been among the greatest victims.
07 December 2017
Not wishing to be outdone by Donald Trump, foreign secretary Boris Johnson has said that Britain should return to the Middle East.
18 November 2017
Politicians and commentators seem to think anything that goes wrong can be blamed on Russian spybots on Twitter. But the truth is scarier still, warns Tomáš Tengely-Evans
14 November 2017
The prospect of another war hangs over the Middle East—this time in Lebanon.
07 November 2017
17 October 2017
US president Donald Trump is edging closer to conflict with Iran as the two states jostle for control in Syria.
26 August 2017
The Western-backed offensive to retake the Syrian city of Raqqa from Isis has killed “hundreds of civilians”.
17 July 2017
Activists from the Socialist Forum in Lebanon are facing a campaign of threats and intimidation after they called for a protest in solidarity with Syrian refugees.
13 June 2017
US-led forces stand accused of dropping horrific white phosphorus weapons in Mosul in Iraq and Raqqa in Syria.
30 May 2017
Two massacres of civilians, including children, each on a greater scale than the Manchester bombing took place last week—and the West was directly involved in both.
18 April 2017
Libya in North Africa is being torn apart by a grinding civil war stoked by competing imperial powers. The horror there is a painful lesson in why military intervention should be opposed, writes Alistair Farrow
18 April 2017
Missiles in Syria, a mega-bomb in Afghanistan, a potential nuclear confrontation in Korea—what happened to the Donald Trump who ran as a critic of US foreign wars?