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Obama's Syria Red Line
Bilal Y. SaabSyria’s military has once again moved its chemical weapons. Last time this happened, worries that chemical attacks on rebels or the civilian population were imminent ended up being...
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Syria's New Opposition
Daniel R. DePetrisNearly a month into its existence, the reorganized and reformed Syrian political opposition has made a number of strides in an attempt to speed up the fall of President Bashar...
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Syrian WMD May Soon Slip Away
Amitai EtzioniThe Pakistani moment of truth is coming all too soon—in Syria. For more than a decade, security experts agreed that the greatest threat to the security of the United States is the...
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How to Work with Russia on Syria
Paul J. SaundersAs Syria’s civil war intensifies and Syrian President Bashar al-Assad looks increasingly grim, some (including this writer) have argued that there is a new window of opportunity for a...
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The Folly of Arming Syria's Rebels
Gary C. GambillAs the Syrian civil war grows nastier and nastier, there is a growing consensus among mainstream Western policy analysts that the United States can best combat the growth of jihadist...
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The New Cold War in the Middle East
Mohammed AyoobBecause of its strategic location between the two twentieth-century centers of Arab power, Egypt and Iraq, Syria has been for many decades a bellwether of Arab politics, viewed widely in...
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The Vengeance Doctrine
Nikolas K. GvosdevLast week, as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee met to consider the nomination of Senator John Kerry for Secretary of State, Senator John McCain used the opportunity to advocate...
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Syria's Floundering Rebel Alliance
Daniel R. DePetrisThe Syrian National Coalition has eclipsed the Syrian National Council as the opposition’s political bloc, but it is difficult to see where they are different.In a new setback to...
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Arming Syria Will Hinder Peace
Ian GarnerJeremy PrestoThe Obama administration’s Syria policy again came under fire after outgoing Defense Secretary Panetta revealed that high level administration support in favor of arming the...
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Assad the Survivor
Daniel R. DePetrisAfter two years of armed conflict, is the Syrian army finally close to collapse? This question, frequently posed during the war, has gotten much louder over the past month as the...
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How to End the War in Syria
Rajan MenonThere have been persistent rumors that Jabhat al-Nusra, among the most effective militias fighting Syrian president Bashar al-Assad’s regime, is linked to Al Qaeda. That connection has now...
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Syria Options Go From Bad to Worse
Reza SanatiAs reports have surfaced of possible use of sarin gas in the Syrian civil war, calls by long-time proponents of U.S. intervention on behalf of the anti-Assad rebels have grown to a fever...
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An Effort Worth Making
Marvin KalbOne day, a decade or so down the line, an American president will call on the Putin of his time and propose an international conference to contain the sectarian and religious warfare then...
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Lebanon Inches Toward Disaster
Rajan MenonIt has been Lebanon’s unenviable fate to be the playground for the deadly games of its more powerful and rivalrous neighbors. What has made Lebanon particularly vulnerable to the fears and...
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NATO's Not Attacking
James JoynerNATO secretary general Anders Fogh Rasmussen reiterated Friday that the Alliance will not intervene militarily in Syria. While he repeatedly made the same assurances regarding Libya before...
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The Doomed Syrian Peace Bid
Daniel R. DePetrisA negotiated settlement to the civil war in Syria is the best option available. But it also happens to be the most difficult.With a new humanitarian catastrophe in the Syrian border...
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Israel Conflicted on Assad
Ehud EilamAccelerated U.S.-Russian diplomacy has brought global powers back into the Syria crisis. Yet a major power on Syria’s doorstep has been less vocal. What’s Israel looking for in the land...
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Hezbollah Gambles in Syria
Ben LynfieldLebanon's Shiite Hezbollah movement, buoyed by the success of its fighters spearheading the landmark victory of the Syrian army in the strategic town of Qusayr last week, is now poised to...
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Syria Crosses the Red Line
Daniel R. DePetrisBack in August 2012, President Barack Obama stood behind the podium at a press conference and revealed to the world that the use of chemical weapons by Syrian government troops would...
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Obama's Confusing Syria Calculus
Rajan MenonThere’s something morally perplexing about President Obama’s stance on the war in Syria. It’s not any clearer in its strategic logic.The president watched—that is essentially what he has...
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