Because Syria’s government had not signed onto the Rome Statute, which renders governments and their respective officials subject to the Int...

In the wake of the downfall of Syria’s Assad in December, 2024, that he had used chemical weapons against civilians in rebel areas against i...

Once Syria’s Assad regime folded, Travis Timmerman, an American who had entered Syria on a religious pilgrimage, was freed from a prison aft...

Russia and China vetoed a U.N. Security Council resolution on October 4, 2011, effectively tossing a life preserver, according to the New ...

Turkey invaded Syria on October 9, 2019 “to flush Kurds allied with the US out of northeastern Syria.” [1] Strategically, Turkey wanted ...

In Geneva on November 28, 2011, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria presented its  report , which had been reques...

Russia’s foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, warned on January 18, 2012, according to the New York Times, “that outside encouragement of anti-...

According to the New York Times, “In a powerful rebuke to Syria’s government, the United Nations General Assembly voted overwhelmingly on [...

The New York Times reported on March 25, 2011 that Syrian military troops opened fire on protesters in the southern part of Syria. Tens o...

According to the New York Times, “masked gunmen severely beat Syria’s best-known political cartoonist,” Ali Farzat, on August 25, 2011. Th...

By the end of 2012, over 60,000 Syrians had been killed and over half a million had fled as a result of the civil war in Syria. Shortages...

In his foreign policy speech on May 19, 2011, U.S. President Barak Obama attempted to justify his administration’s policy of selective mil...

In the wake of yet another Syrian massacre of civilians, including families being shot at close-range in their own houses, the New Y...

All bets are off when it comes to regulating war. Such a condition is virtually by definition beyond the confines of law. Even internati...

War is hell; everybody knows that. A ruling power of a government intent on depriving civilians of life during a civil-war battle in a majo...

Democracy is hardly simple, given that the momentary will of the people can be distinguished in at least some cases from what is in the peop...

In the midst of all of the excitement and exuberance of a political protest, the protesters themselves in Syria were probably not thinkin...

Foreign policy is typically one of the domains of power that goes to the federal level in a Union of states. The history of the E.U. in i...

In November 2012, the New York Times reported that the European Union was offering “crucial support for the new Syrian political opposi...

Those who laud the efficiency of the market mechanism are particularly wont to point to the slow mechanizations of government machinery. ...