
Homs, Syria after five years of war
Drone video footage shows there’s no life left in Syria’s third largest city

Syrian-American composer who plays for peace
A symphony for Syria reminds me of Sarajevo and the hope that cosmopolitan tolerance will survive

Activists in Raqqa exposing the Islamic State
We owe a great debt to the people documenting the devastation around them

Looking for Ukrainians to lead the separatist movement
Santa Claus and a dog whisperer among those leading the Ukrainian separatist movement

Were the Turks behind the sarin gas attacks in Syria?
Obama publicly blamed Assad but Seymour Hersh contends Erdoğan was trying to force an attack

The Yugoslav war reappears in Syria
War never ends: it breeds skills that just get applied to perpetrating bad deeds later on

Car bomb in Beirut, invisible map revealed
Even in peacetime, every Beiruti knows which sect ‘owns’ each district

New York Times op-ed on Syria is wrong about the Obama doctrine
How not to make the case for US intervention in Syria

In Syria, the sectarian atrocities will commence shortly
Atrocities are tactical, deployed to shore up loyalty. Moments like this are when they are used

The Syrian gun market as horoscope
New York Times reporter C. J. Chivers says weapons are expensive so bad things lie ahead

Syria, citizen journalism and the New York Times
The paper of record embraces citizen journalism at last

On the Egypt revolution and America’s War of 1812
A bad week in Egypt, but profound political change can take a very long time

Looking at the war in Syria
Unlike Gaddafi, Assad has international allies who will protect him so this is likely to get worse

Horst Faas: the man who shot the Vietnam War
Many of the photos we know from the Vietnam War are due to Horst Faas, even ones he didn’t shoot

Caught in the middle of a firefight in Syria
A terrifyingly close view of what it means to fight an irregular war in the middle of a city

Ghost of Judith Miller returns to the NY Times
In the form of Ronen Bergman, whose cover story on Israel attacking Iran reads as propaganda

What the New York police are taught about Islam
Muslims are taking over the world. Run! No, fight! No, run!

The official end of the Iraq debacle
A bad idea, but it will incubate like a latent virus in right-wing circles and return one day

The people we are assassinating in Pakistan
Osama bin Laden’s death was big news but this site tracks the quiet killings

Twenty weeks of WWII at The Atlantic
All sorts of visual surprises remain of one of the most documented moments in history

Newsreel: ’67 War and party balloons for Red China
Newsreels declare: US neutral in ’67 War in the Middle East and Red China fears party balloons