Bashar al-Assad
How did mild-mannered eye doctor Bashar al-Assad end up a mass murderer?
‘How did this mild-mannered eye doctor end up killing hundreds of thousands of people?’ someone wondered about Bashar al-Assad in…
Putin’s great game
In Syria, the Russian leader is on the verge of his biggest – and riskiest – coup yet
Aleppo Notebook
I had been trying to get to Aleppo for ages, but was unable to do so because rebel activity had…
Cameron’s Syrian stew
David Cameron doesn’t do regret. It is not in his nature to sit and fret about decisions that he has…
How Putin outwitted the West
His cynical statecraft in Syria has run rings around Britain and America
Forget Chilcot
What we really need is an inquiry into why so many of us are so eager to support ‘humanitarian’ wars
Father Paolo’s personal peace process
As Syria’s second peace conference looms, and we prepare ourselves for a lot of hot air drifting over from Geneva,…
The enemy Assad wants
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels leaves the West’s friends in the country weaker than ever
