by Megan McArdle | Oct 10, 2017 | Middle East
As airstrikes rained down on Aleppo while the Syrian government wrested the city from rebel forces, Bana al-Abed and her mother, Fatemah, were tweeting daily about life under siege. “Good morning from Aleppo,” Bana said in halting English in one of the videos posted...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 6, 2017 | Middle East
Damascus- Six years into a devastating war, Damascus plunged into the darkness of neglect and waste accumulating in its slums and upper-class neighborhoods. The city which once the sweet scent of jasmine was bursting all across its streets, now has a sickening reek of...
by Abdulrahman Al-Rashed | Jul 17, 2017 | Opinion
Russian air strikes and cruise missiles, foreign militias and Assad armed forces continue to use coercive force as towns and land stretches from eastern Aleppo to southern Raqqa are brought back under regime control. Syrian rebels, or what is left of them, fight with...
by Asharq Al-Awsat | May 25, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture
Beirut- The much-anticipated opening of the “Yellow House”- Beit Beirut has been postponed despite the completion of renovations. The Yellow House is also known as the “Barakat building” after the family that lived in it before the war. Its façade covered with bullet...
by BOB CORKER and CHRIS COONS | May 13, 2017 | Opinion
The suffering today in northern Uganda and South Sudan should move even the most hardhearted among us. As members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, we often are confronted with the question of how the United States should respond to such crises. We also have...
