Analysis & Commentary
Syria Needs US Intervention Now: Ammar Abduhamid
Ammar Abduhamid is a liberal Syrian pro-democracy activist whose anti-regime activities led to his exile in September, 2005. He currently lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife, Khawla Yusuf, and their two children.
The Obama Retreat
In Moscow last week for the third round of talks with Iran over its nuclear weapons program this year, the Obama administration came up empty—again. So the White House, with nothing to show for investing in talks with Tehran, now has nothing left to say.
Paper Trail Leads to Damascus
In December 2010, the New York Times' Robert F. Worth wrote an article about the newspaper Al-Akhbar, "the most dynamic and daring in Lebanon, and perhaps anywhere in the Arab world."
Perspectives on Syria
After more than a year of conflict, the violence in Syria is finally being recognized as a civil war. This weekend, world powers are preparing for a high-level meeting that the US hopes will be a turning point in the Syria crisis
Syria: Civilians in Homs Trapped While UN Runs, Rebel Leader Says Help or Leave
"Let us go, in God's name!" is the desperate appeal by Christian families and Sunni Muslims still trapped in the old town of Homs in the wake of Saturday’s U.N. pull back announced yesterday by observers in Syria.
Defensive Propaganda
Of all the uprisings of the “Arab Spring,” the Syrian revolt has been the one arena where pro-regime information warfare has been a central element in the ongoing conflict.
Arab World: Feigning Concern?
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week expressed concerns regarding new Russian supplies of helicopter gunships to the Assad regime in Syria.
Saudi Clerics Funnel Cash to Syrian Rebels Through Terror Group
Since President Obama decided not to support the rebels fighting Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad, a handful of Saudi religious figures have taken matters into their own hands.
Obama Outfoxed by Putin
The Associated Press reports: “The Obama administration said Tuesday that Russia is sending attack helicopters to Syrian President Bashar [al-]Assad’s regime and is warning about a dramatic escalation in the Arab country’s 15-month conflict.
Impotence Abroad
Hillary Clinton says that the Obama administration can’t do anything about Bashar al-Assad. They can’t make him step down, and they can’t stop him from massacring women and children, as he did last week in Houla.
The Battle of Syria
They say politics makes strange bedfellows. But even stranger are the bedfellows that national security policy makes. Andrew C. McCarthy, a friend and colleague, provides a stunning example.
To Act or Not in Syria?
Cliff May of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies writes in response to some conservatives’ qualms about U.S. action to help topple Bashar al-Assad...
Assad’s Failure to Stop Syria Massacres Puts Him in the Crosshairs
The cellphone videos are particularly gruesome: badly charred bodies, with flies feeding on what remains; other bodies showing apparent stab wounds, some with intestines spilling out.
Assad’s Sectarian Strategy
While the massacre of women and children in Houla last month has been rightly denounced by outsiders as a horrific act of brutality, few fully appreciate the cold-blooded calculus of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad...
Death Toll Climbs Now in Hama Bombing and Massacre Today as US Issues Warnings
Word is trickling out of Syria today of more massacres of civilians and skirmishes between Syrian opposition forces against Ba’athist dictator Bashir Assad’s troops.
Guantanamo Detainee Releases Audio Message to Syrian People
An audio message to the Syrian people purportedly from a current Guantanamo detainee has been released online by jihadist forums, according to the SITE Intelligence Group.
America’s Newsroom
FDD's Tony Badran comments on breaking news from Libya and the ongoing crisis in Syria.
Romney’s Syria Problem
Congratulations to Mitt Romney. In calling for “opposition groups” to be armed and trained for their ongoing jihad against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad.
‘The Time for Action has Come’
Yes, the United States should intervene in Syria. With so much at stake, in both humanitarian and political terms, the U.S. simply does not have the luxury of inaction.
The Real ‘Spring’ is Not Arab
Buried beneath the news’ cycle of the Arab Spring is a much overlooked and potentially revolutionary fact – the real “spring” under way across the lands of the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant and North Africa is not Arab.
