Launching an attack on Syria has made US President, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, Barack Obama “a war president”, a senior Russian lawmaker wrote on his Twitter page.
The Israel-Palestine negotiations currently underway in Jerusalem (al-Quds) coincide with the 20th anniversary of the Oslo Accords.
Remember the Powell doctrine? Elaborated by Colin Powell back in 1990, during his tenure as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, it consisted of a series of questions identifying the conditions that should be met before committing US military forces to battle.
Normally, when Israel finds itself at the center of a US war argument, it is Israeli officials that put themselves there.
American antiwar activist and author Noam Chomsky has said a US attack on Syria without a UN mandate would be a war crime regardless of congressional approval.
A photo is going viral showing the US Secretary of States John Kerry and his wife with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and his wife enjoying quite an intimate dinner in 2009, before then-Sen. Kerry became secretary of state.
Just as the White House unveiled its dossier of evidence of chemical weapons attacks in Syria on Friday, two senior administration officials were giving a telephone briefing to the media. They were authorized by the administration to attest to the reliability of intelligence suggesting the attacks were carried out by Syria – but only on the condition of anonymity.
President Obama's proposed "humanitarian" bombing of Syria, which seemed like a done deal just a few days ago, is now running into serious trouble both at home and abroad.
A majority of Europeans oppose military intervention in Syria of any kind, a new poll shows, as Washington is considering to bomb the country.
The recent abhorrent developments in Syria once again highlight the fundamental legal, political and moral question on the utility and effectiveness of the use or threat of force to advance humanitarian causes or even national policies.