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In this handout released by the U.S. Navy, the guided-missile cruiser USS Monterey (CG 61) fires a Tomahawk land attack missile at Syria as part of an allied strike on April 13th, 2018.

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‘Their Impact Was Close to Zero’: Syrians React to Coalition Missile Strikes

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.

Youmna al-Dimashqi

A Syrian army APC rolls in the former rebel-held area of Beit Nayem in the Eastern Ghouta region on the outskirts of the capital Damascus.

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Syrian Proxy Conflicts Could Shape the Future of Middle East Security

What started as a civil conflict has quickly fallen into multiple proxy wars, ones that don't look to be dying down any time soon.

Moritz Pieper

An explosion rocks Kobani, Syria, during a reported suicide car bomb attack by the ISIS militants on October 20th, 2014.

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The Broken Promise of ‘Never Again’

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

Jared Keller