Syria
Azad Al-Barazi: Swimming for Syria
A Californian surfer was among the more unlikely athletes being sworn into Syria’s team at the Olympic Village today. Swimmer Azad Al-Barazi is more accustomed to the sunny beaches of Santa Monica than the warring streets of Damascus, but he was one of 10 athletes at the country’s official welcoming ceremony this afternoon.
By Emily Dugan | Olympics | Wednesday, 25 July 2012 at 6:13 pm
Ending Syria’s torment: what needs to be done?
The bodies were no longer there. Nonetheless pieces of brain, pools of blood and other human remains indicated that a massacre had taken place in the village of Qubair in Syria’s brutalised Hama province. The victims likely included children, according to eyewitness reports. The outrage was preceded by acts of venality and civilian slaughter in [...]
By Emanuel Stoakes | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 3:00 am
Women under siege: The use of rape as a weapon of war in Syria
One organisation is working to document, highlight and publicise sexualised violence in Syria.
By Dr Sima Barmania | Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 19 June 2012 at 5:30 pm
In a league of its own: sport and human rights
As London gets ready to host the Olympic Games and the Paralympics, it is not just sports stories that have been grabbing the headlines. Controversies are abounding, ranging from the politics of squad selection to the relevance of drugs bans, via missiles on the rooftops and the exclusive traffic lanes.
By Martin Polley | Notebook, Olympics, Opinion, Sport | Monday, 18 June 2012 at 3:00 am
Syria: Why is the world just watching?
We are sitting around watching the Syrian crisis, while evil is allowed to flourish. Dr. Sima Barmania tells us why this is unacceptable, and has a conversation with one of Assad’s old teachers, Dr. Mousa Al Kurdi.
By Dr Sima Barmania | Notebook, Opinion, iPolitics | Friday, 8 June 2012 at 5:56 pm
Obama’s foreign policy woes
When you are the most powerful leader in the world, you want to be seen to be manipulating events, not the other way round.
Unfortunately for President Barack Obama, he’s in trouble on the foreign policy front, seven months from a presidential election. At best the situation is unpredictable, at worst, it’s a disaster.
The [...]
By Anne Penketh | The Foreign Desk | Sunday, 15 April 2012 at 5:37 pm
Lionel Messi accused of sending signals to Syria rebels
Lionel Messi may have become Barcelona’s highest-ever scorer last night, and surely nothing can stop the Argentinian, but he can even send secret signals to Syrian rebels from the pitch, it has been alleged in an astonishing claim.
Liberal Intervention, continued
Should democracies intervene militarily in Syria or Iran? Not yet, but I have recorded an interview for BBC2 Daily Politics on Monday in which I say that Nato should be ready to assist in the overthrow of Bashar Assad, and that the one thing madder than allowing the Iranian regime to acquire nuclear weapons would be [...]
By John Rentoul | Eagle Eye | Friday, 9 March 2012 at 2:35 pm
Syria: Something must be done
I am no foreign policy expert, and so until now I have refrained from writing anything about Syria. Until now, I have instead confined myself to tweeting my simultaneous senses of frustration, helplessness and anguish about the situation, whilst faithfully following those on Twitter whom I have deemed better placed, either emotionally or intellectually, to comment on this crisis than I. (I have included here a list of Twitter accounts – some contentious, all compelling – that I have found indispensable to my embryonic understanding of what is going on.)
By Musa Okwonga | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 8 February 2012 at 4:33 pm
Saudi Arabia, Iran and a Middle East proxy war
Whatever the truth of the amazing US allegations against Iranian agents accused of plotting to kill the Saudi ambassador to the United States on American soil, they have served to highlight the proxy war between Iran and Saudi Arabia in the Middle East.
The Saudis sent troops to Bahrain, where they openly intervened with the blessing of the [...]
By Anne Penketh | The Foreign Desk | Wednesday, 12 October 2011 at 2:12 am
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