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Dead bodies following the assault on Houla, Syria, in May (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network. AP cannot independently verify this photo)
June 19, 2012, 12:33 pm
Ending the ‘unacceptable’ and ‘unspeakable’ in Syria
If, as Obama put it, ‘awareness without action changes nothing,’ what is to be done? And will Obama and the US take the lead in acting upon our responsibility to save the innocent?
By Irwin Cotler
Image capture of explosions in Homs on Monday (photo credit: Bambuser/Homslive via AP video)
June 12, 2012, 2:17 pm
Syria engulfed in flames; Egypt braces for final run-up to elections
Brother Maher Assad, not President Bashar, is in control of Syria, columnist writes
By Elhanan Miller
Illustrative: Riot police fire at anti-government protesters in Bahrain (photo credit: AP Photo/Hasan Jamali)
May 18, 2012, 1:22 pm
All eyes on Bahrain
Iran’s interest in the Shiite-majority Islands of Bahrain raise the specter of Persian domination of the Gulf in the minds of Arab columnists Friday
By Elhanan Miller
A Syrian opposition fighter runs for cover in Homs last month (photo credit: Fadi Zaidan/AP)
May 18, 2012, 11:46 am
UN observers say they cannot help Syria without talks
Head of international team calls for sides to return to table; shelling resumes in rebel-held Rastan
Palestinian women protest in solidarity with hunger strikers (photo credit: AP photo/Hatem Moussa)
May 15, 2012, 1:20 pm
Gulf unity on the back burner, for now
Syrian clashes move to the city of Rastan, Palestinian prisoners end their hunger strike, and Tunisia condemns Western intervention
By Elhanan Miller
Syrian army soldiers hold the Syrian revolution flags shortly after they defected and joined the rebels, in Homs province on Saturday (AP/Fadi Zaidan)
May 14, 2012, 5:19 pm
Syrian rebel town shelled in latest violence; five killed in clashes, homes torched
Opposition forces claim to have killed soldiers, destroyed army vehicles; children among wounded as regime hits town of Rastan
This citizen journalist image obtained by the Associated Press on Friday, April 6, 2012. purportedly shows a mass burial of people allegedly killed in recent shelling in Taftnaz, Syria. (photo credit: AP)
April 6, 2012, 7:11 pm
Syria steps up offensives ahead of cease-fire
As troops shell restive areas, stream of refugees fleeing to neighboring Turkey picks up considerably
Syrian rebels outside Idlib, Syria. (photo credit: AP)
February 13, 2012, 5:47 pm
Rebels hold strong as Syrian army attacks Homs again
Assad forces also fail to retake the city of Rastan; sniper kills civilian in Hama
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