Syria

Time for political process to end Syria bloodshed

March 8, 2012 By PW Editorial Board

Kofi Annan told a Cairo news conference this week that his top priority is to end the violence and deliver badly needed humanitarian aid.

Syria: a way out

March 7, 2012 By Conn Hallinan

There are two tales about the crisis in Syria.

Talk of military intervention in Syria recalls Iraq debacle

February 7, 2012 By Susan Webb

The talk of covert action, "no fly zones," and military involvement via proxies has ratcheted up following the Russian and Chinese veto of a UN Security Council resolution.

Syrian activist: Regime making political solutions impossible

July 28, 2011 By Michel Kilo

A member of Syria's pro-democracy movement discusses potential reforms, the role of Islamists, foreign interference and more.

Poem of the week: Nizar Qabbani’s “The Old World is Dead”

February 24, 2011 By John Case

This unnamed verse, written in 1970, seems as if it could have been written yesterday in half a dozen nations - and in some U.S. states as well.