Syria Civil War

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• SOURCE: Forward
  1-24-17
  

  Anti-Semitism Spikes in Poland — Stoked by Populist Surge Against Refugees

  A new national study conducted by the Center for Research on Prejudice at the University of Warsaw finds a significant increase in negative attitudes toward Jews since 2014.

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• SOURCE: We're History
  12-26-16
  

  Aleppo, the American Civil War, and “Civilization”

  by Matthew C. Hulbert

  We have been in the very place Aleppo is now. Scenes like those seen lately taking place in the streets of that city played out on American soil during our own civil war.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  12-23-16
  

  With Fall of Aleppo, will a Russo-Iranian Middle East challenge Trump?

  by Juan Cole

  While Trump himself has indicated an ability to live with a Russo-Iranian Middle East, his cabinet will be made extremely upset by it.

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• 12-20-16
  

  The High Cost of Vladimir Putin’s Adventurism in the Middle East

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  The death of Russia’s ambassador to Turkey is further blowback for Putin’s policy of reckless interventionism.

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• 12-15-16
  

  Putin Is Doing to Aleppo What He Did to Grozny: Flatten the Place

  by Brian Glyn Williams

  Both times he acted, he said, to save the world from terrorists. It wasn’t true then and isn’t true now.

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• 12-18-16
  

  Do Countries Have a Legal Obligation to Protect Refugees Fleeing Oppression?

  by Jennifer Freilach

  They do and here’s how that came about.

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• SOURCE: Informed Comment
  12-8-16
  

  Syria unlikely to be Partitioned: The Resilience of Colonial Borders

  by Juan Cole

  Whenever a country falls into civil war, there are always observers who suggest that the problem could be resolved by a partition of that country, but with Syria it isn’t likely to happen, and it wouldn’t necessarily be good if it did.

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• 11-18-15
  

  First, Stop the Civil War in Syria

  by Robert Brent Toplin

  And that won’t be easy, as history shows.