Intervention Advocate

Twenty months into the uprising in Syria, with the death toll reportedly exceeding 37,000 and news reports showing that violence in the country is spiraling even further out of control, it is no wonder that the thorny issue of foreign intervention is constantly revisited. Akil Hashem, a former brigadier general in the Syrian military, is also one of the loudest proponents of foreign military intervention in Syria. Hashem joined the Syrian army in 1962 and served for twenty-seven years....

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Taramseh Killings Increase Pressure

Syria’s civil war entered a new and deadly phase this week, with reports of the largest massacre in the country since the uprising began, the defection of a senior Syrian diplomat and a continuing diplomatic row between the members of the UN Security Council. The Syrian opposition reported on Friday that over 200 people were killed in the town of Taramseh, in the province of Hama, by government shelling, attacks by helicopter gunships, and summary executions by loyalist militias known as s...

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