by MELISSA BLOCK (Q & A with JOSHUA LANDIS and ANDREW TABLER ) on NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO “ALL THINGS CONSIDERED” on MAY 1, 2013: This week President Obama said it was important to remain prudent in coming to conclusions about chemical weapons use within Syria, something he said could change the nature of U.S. involvement [...]
by AL JAZEERA “INSIDE SYRIA” on FEBRUARY 17, 2013: Syria’s opposition fighters have been gaining strength and becoming more organised while government forces seem to be slowly withdrawing under the pressure. Last week, opposition fighters said they took control of the al-Jarrah military air base in Aleppo province. It was the latest in a string of [...]
compiled by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on DECEMBER 11, 2012: Tonight President Obama announced, in an interview with ABC News, that the U.S. will formally recognize the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces (Syrian National Coalition) as a the sole “legitimate representative” of the Syrian people. Here are what some scholars and experts [...]
ISLAMiCommentary, DECEMBER 10, 2012: Here are what some scholars and experts have said over the past week about the conflict in Syria: Bernard-Henry Lévy: “There are, in reality, three questions. Whether the time has come to intervene. The answer is “yes.” With righteous anger, yes. With the bitterness of some 40,000 dead, who—in this case—will have [...]
by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMiCommentary on OCTOBER 31, 2012: With the weekend Eid al Adha “ceasefire” broken in Syria, and continuous fighting since, there appears to be less and less hope of a resolution to the sectarian conflict in Syria that is turning into a civil war and an international quagmire. Noted Syria scholar, [...]
Joshua Landis: New Web Service — Syria Video — Launched
by JOSHUA LANDIS for SYRIA COMMENT on MARCH 31, 2013: Syria Comment Announces a new web service: Syria Video, which can be found at http://syriavideo.net Syria Video is a web application that maps and aggregates Syrian war videos by tracking a large number of YouTube channels. The channels have been identified as reliable and tied to specific [...]
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