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 winning in Syria – but making a powerful new enemy
In Syria, the Russian leader is on the verge of his biggest – and riskiest – coup yet
Aleppo Notebook: the city’s terrorist besiegers will now be besieged
I had been trying to get to Aleppo for ages, but was unable to do so because rebel activity had…
A Commons consensus on bombing Syria is further away than ever
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. Here’s the inquiry we really need
What we really need is an inquiry into why so many of us are so eager to support ‘humanitarian’ wars
The one man who makes me hope for peace in Syria
As Syria’s second peace conference looms, and we prepare ourselves for a lot of hot air drifting over from Geneva,…
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels has given Assad the enemy he wants
A new Islamist alliance among Syria’s rebels leaves the West’s friends in the country weaker than ever
