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Alaa Faqir / Reuters How Trump Made It a Little Easier For Assad to Stay in Power
Even as the U.S. has bombed the Syrian leader’s forces, the president has stopped aiding one campaign against him.
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Rob Dobi First He Became an American—Then He Joined ISIS
When the FBI discovered a network of Bosnian-Americans giving support to terrorists, they also discovered Abdullah Ramo Pazara, a U.S. citizen and a battalion commander in Syria.
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Evan Vucci / AP Trump Begins His Religion World Tour
The American president’s first international trip has been explicitly framed in terms of religious identity.
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Shannon Stapleton / Reuters Can the United Nations Do Anything to Stop the Slaughter in Syria?
A resolution to condemn Assad has once again fallen to a Russian veto. But there is something the institution could do to help end the war.
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Hassan Ammar / AP Trump's Action in Syria Is 'Just the Latest Blip on a Deeper Story'
The American public is always ready to pay attention to military strikes. But what does the president’s decision mean for the humanitarian crisis?
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Alex Brandon / AP Lessons From the 'Red Line' Crisis
I was chief of staff at the State Department the last time a president considered punishing Assad for using chemical weapons. The complexities we faced then are worth considering as Trump contemplates what’s next in Syria.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters How Obama’s Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal Fell Apart
A tale of Syrian deception, Russian duplicity, and American dithering
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Marko Djurica / Reuters Russia and America Are Once Again at Odds
The bitter back-and-forth between the two governments over Syria strikes underscores the longstanding dysfunction in the relationship.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Unlawful Attack in Syria
Trump launched an attack on Bashar al-Assad’s government without the legal authority to do so.
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Kevin Lamarque / Reuters Donald Trump, Inevitable Hawk
The 45th president’s worldview was eventually going to lead him into military conflict.
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Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Does Israel Have a Special Duty to Stop a ‘Holocaust’ in Syria?
Why religious leaders say yes and political leaders say no
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Reactions to the Syria Strike: A Brief Guide
Washington's foreign policy blob is in lockstep behind Trump.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters How Unusual Was the Trump Administration’s Reversal on Syria?
The current president is not the only commander in chief to change his mind with respect to U.S. military action, but the timeline for his about-face may be far shorter than most.
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Ford Williams / U.S. Navy / Reuters When Do Limited Strikes 'Work'?
Micah Zenko explains the logic of Trump’s Syria intervention—and its chances of success
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Jonathan Ernst / Reuters On Syria, Which Version of Trump Will Win Out?
The America Firster who mocked international norms has abruptly reversed course.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Does Trump Know What to Do After Striking Syria?
Simply blaming Obama won't work as a game plan.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Trump's Establishment Approach to Syria
Why did the most unconventional of presidents respond to his first foreign policy crisis in such a conventional way?
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Ford Williams / U.S. Navy / Reuters A Practical Guide for Avoiding Fallacies on Syria
Seven ways to pressure-test the most common arguments from the anti-interventionist camp
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Alexei Druzhinin/ RIA Novosti / Kremlin / Reuters In Syria, Russia Falls Victim to Its Own Success
Moscow’s rogue client has destroyed the country’s ability to present itself as an indispensable arbiter in the conflict.
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Patrick Fallon / Reuters Trump’s Disillusioned Supporters
The president’s military action in Syria is a bitter disappointment for some of his biggest fans.
