Al Nusra Front
- Irwin Arieff
- • February 20, 2016
Sun Tzu’s classic work on the art of war advises would-be warriors to “know your enemy.” What were Western powers and the United Nations thinking when they first pondered ways to stop Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from beating, torturing,…
- Categories: BOOKS
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • December 26, 2015
When the United Nations Security Council recently approved timelines to begin peace talks and institute a national cease-fire in Syria, the language in the resolution gave no hint of the magnitude of such undertakings, nor did the congratulatory speeches…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council, Women
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • February 12, 2015
The Russian-sponsored resolution to fight more precisely the financing of the Islamic jihadists who control swaths of Iraq and Syria passed unanimously in the United Nations Security Council recently, expressing the entire council’s dread, at least for now, of…
- Categories: Gender Violence, Human Trafficking, Middle East, Security Council
- Dulcie Leimbach
- • August 17, 2014
If there is one anarchic group that every member of the United Nations Security Council currently finds abhorrent it is the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, which has seized large regions of Iraq this summer, astonishing most…
- Categories: Middle East, Peace and Security, Security Council
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