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Why Obama Now 'Owns Syria' Hamid Khatib/Reuters

Why Obama Now 'Owns Syria'

The far-ranging implications of the president's decision to provide arms to anti-Assad rebels

Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter Murad Sezer/Reuters

Why Governments Use Broadcast TV and Dissidents Use Twitter

How regimes take control of official media channels and push activists onto the Internet.

Why Arming the Rebels Isn't Enough Goran Tomasevic/Reuters

Why Arming the Rebels Isn't Enough

We need to dismantle Assad's air capability to really give the opposition a leg up.

Children in the Syrian War: Tortured by One Side, Recruited by the Other Reuters

Children in the Syrian War: Tortured by One Side, Recruited by the Other

A new UN report comes amid staggering casualty numbers and Obama's confirmation that the regime has used chemical weapons.

Iran Has a Presidential Selection, Not an Election Caren Firouz/Reuters

Iran Has a Presidential Selection, Not an Election

It's too early to feel optimistic that the regime will reform itself.

Does Syria Mean the End of the Responsibility to Protect? Muhammad Hamed/Reuters

Does Syria Mean the End of the Responsibility to Protect?

The crisis underscores the difficulty of reconciling humanitarian ideals with geopolitical concerns.

Africa's New Agents of Progress in Female Health: Traditional Male Chiefs

Africa's New Agents of Progress in Female Health: Traditional Male Chiefs

Some groups are making strides at ending child marriage and female genital mutilation by reaching out to the men in charge.

Gazi to Gezi: Turkish Protests Unite Minorities Who Distrust Each Other Sulome Anderson

Gazi to Gezi: Turkish Protests Unite Minorities Who Distrust Each Other

The Taksim protests have brought together middle-class youth with another, longer-simmering conflict in one of Istanbul's Alevi neighborhoods.

After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S. Reuters

After Torture and Persecution, Iranian Activists Work From Inside the U.S.

In the lead-up to the elections, some activists are fighting U.S. sanctions, even as they push for reform in their former homelands.

Does Iran's President Matter? Reuters

Does Iran's President Matter?

The convoluted system in which a supreme leader supervises the president, who in turn represents the people.

Did a Stroke Cause Putin's Awkward English? Reuters

Did a Stroke Cause Putin's Awkward English?

Those strained mouth movements! The jiggling! Some evidence that the Russian president might have a secret malady.

Why Is Russia So Homophobic? Reuters

Why Is Russia So Homophobic?

Communist-era justifications for bigotry don't make sense anymore. What's behind lawmakers' opposition to gays?

Yes, Iran Has Reform Candidates and Engaged Citizens Shervin Malekzadeh

Yes, Iran Has Reform Candidates and Engaged Citizens

Signs of promise in the Islamic Republic, ahead of Friday's elections.

These Charts Show How Crucial Twitter Is for the Turkey Protesters Reuters

These Charts Show How Crucial Twitter Is for the Turkey Protesters

How a small group of "hidden influencers" spread their message far and wide.

Syria, Intervention, and the Weight of History Muzaffar Salman/Reuters

Syria, Intervention, and the Weight of History

Some push-back in the comments against Fareed Zakaria's take on the Syria conflict's historical context.

PRISM Just Gave Russia an Excuse to Step Up Its War on Social Networks Reuters

PRISM Just Gave Russia an Excuse to Step Up Its War on Social Networks

People "receive special content that is undermining the authority of the state and the values of the established state," the deputy prime minister says.

Fareed Zakaria on American Intervention in Syria Reuters

Fareed Zakaria on American Intervention in Syria

The columnist argues that the U.S. should stay out of the country's civil war.

How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad Erik De Castro/Reuters

How America Lost Its Nerve Abroad

Policymakers used to believe in a forceful projection of American authority. But after debacles in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Libya, they are turning inward.

Northern Ireland Attempts to Bridge Religious Rifts Through Youth Soccer Cathal McNaughton/Reuters

Northern Ireland Attempts to Bridge Religious Rifts Through Youth Soccer

Little by little, Protestants and Catholics are coming together to form integrated teams, although tensions in their communities still run high.

Iran's Jon Stewart Serves Up Illegal Political Satire Kambiz Hosseini

Iran's Jon Stewart Serves Up Illegal Political Satire

The tragic comedy of the upcoming presidential election, as told by Kambiz Hosseini

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