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Vladimir Putin, John Kerry, Barack Obama
By 10/08/2016

Experts: Syrian ‘Black Hole’ Deepens As US Election Approaches

As the Syrian army advances on shattered East Aleppo and US Secretary of State John Kerry struggles to find his footing against the Russians, Western media is ripe with speculation that the offensive is timed to the US election. As The New York Times put it, “The strategy of President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia, […]

Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump
By 08/29/2016

US Overlaps in Syria/Trump + Farage/And More

Biggest Complainers About Government are Biggest Beneficiaries ; Preacher Escapes Trial Via ‘The Rapture’ ; Brexit’s Architect Joins Trump on Campaign Trail…and More Picks

Journalists at Khmeimim airbase cover the Syrian war
By 02/03/2016

Our Russia-Syria Reporting Leads the Pack

Item: Our story about how Russia was meeting its objectives in Syria at a bearable cost and getting the better of the West keeps on clocking. First Reuters jumped on it, and now the Washington Post. Remember: you read it here first.

German Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere
By 11/17/2015

Syrian Passport May Have Been Planted to Implicate Refugees, Says German Minister

Shortly after the carnage of Friday’s terrorist attacks in Paris, unnamed officials reported that a Syrian refugee’s passport was found next to one of the suicide bombers. News that one of the terrorists had posed as a refugee served as a rallying call for those fearing that “terrorists [are] inserting themselves into some of these […]

By 09/16/2015

Historical Backstory to Those Fleeing Syrians

If you want to know the who, what, why of how things got so bad in Syria — and, in some ways, the rest of the Middle East — read this excerpt from Syria Burning by Charles Glass.

Published by OR Books, New York and London, 2015.

By 07/10/2015

Syria Is Burning, The Pope Is Pontificating & Bumblebees Are Dying: July 10, 2015

NOW LIVE ON WhoWhatWhy RadioWhoWhatWhy: Fanning the Flames of Syria By Jeff Schechtman Just how bad is the situation in Syria? Four million Syrians have fled the country in the past four years as its cities smolder and civil war rages on. Strategic dysfunction on the part of the international community, led by the US, continued airstrikes, and […]

By 07/10/2015

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Fanning the Flames of Syria

Just how bad is the situation in Syria? Four million Syrians have fled the country in the past four years as its cities smolder and civil war rages on. Strategic dysfunction on the part of the international community, led by the US, continued airstrikes, and growing violence perpetrated by the Islamic State are definitely part of the story that led to Syria’s descent into chaos. RadioWhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman sits down with Charles Glass, author of Syria Burning, to learn the rest of it.