Syria

The U.S. is effectively fighting both sides of Yemen's ongoing civil war, with no clear definition of what victory looks like.

• By Jared Keller

A snap election in Turkey, announced earlier this month, briefly put residents of Northern Syria on edge ahead of a threatened incursion by Turkish forces. Now, it's back to life-as-usual.

• By Kenneth R. Rosen

An anti-war movement that embraces authoritarianism and conspiracy theories is an anti-war movement that will lead us to more war.

• By Noah Berlatsky

Many feel as if the military actions of the U.S., U.K., and France were ineffectual and not intended to actually protect many of the country's beleaguered people.

• By Youmna al-Dimashqi

Opinions vary on the ethics of Trump's weekend airstrikes, but everyone agrees that they will do little to halt the Assad administration's reported use of chemical weapons.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Quaker Alan Pinch makes tea for passersby as he holds a protest against war and military action in Syria on April 12th, 2018, in Manchester, England.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Should the U.S. retaliate after the latest deadly airstrike in Syria?

• By Jared Keller

The journalist and novelist discusses her new novel about a Syrian refugee—and the power and reach of the young adult genre.

• By Candace Butera

Displaced Syrians carry boxes of humanitarian aid supplied by the United Nations Children's Fund at a refugee camp in Syria's northeastern Hassakeh province on February 26th, 2018.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

From gaming cafes to talent shows to small businesses, children and adults are creating a hard-won culture in Greece's most populous refugee camp.

• By Matt Alesevich

Lebanese Kurds take part in a protest near the European Commission offices in Beirut on January 28th, 2018, against the ongoing Turkish military campaign in the Kurdish-held Syrian enclave of Afrin.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

With Special Operations Command personnel making up an increasingly large share of troop levels abroad, the government mandate for wartime transparency becomes less binding.

• By Jared Keller

Director Greg Barker talks about following Obama all over the globe while filming The Final Year.

• By Isaac Butler

A series of attacks against U.S. and Russian backed forces in recent days suggests that ISIS is still very much a threat.

• By Hashem Osseiran

Chechen military involvement in the fight against ISIS is unprecedented.

• By Neil Hauer

A volunteer from the Syrian Civil Defence searches the rubble of a building following a reported airstrike in the rebel-controlled town of Hamouria on the outskirts of Damascus on November 28th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Syrian boys swing on the playground outside their damaged school on November 9th, 2017, in the besieged rebel-held Eastern Ghouta town of Hamouriyah.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

A member of the Iraqi forces covers his ears as he fires a mortar against Kurdish Peshmerga positions near the Turkish and Syrian borders in the Iraqi Kurdish autonomous region on October 26th, 2017.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Syrians celebrate in Damascus' Umayyad Square on October 5th, 2017, after Syria's national soccer team scored in its match against Australia during the FIFA World Cup 2018 qualifier.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Protesters hold placards during the annual Ashura march in Marble Arch on October 1st, 2017, in London, England.

• By Pacific Standard Staff

How many civilian casualties is the U.S. willing to face in order to accomplish its goal of defeating ISIS?

• By Jared Keller

If liberal democracies categorically reject genocide as the pinnacle of human evil, why don't they do anything to stop it?

• By Jared Keller

Analysts are watching the White House to see whether it's U.S. interests or the Trump administration's connection to Russia guiding policy abroad.

• By Massoud Hayoun

Russia suspended the use of a hotline that has helped to prevent air conflict between the intervening powers in Syria.

• By Jack Denton