المرصد السوري لحقوق الانسان
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11/04/2018

In Syria, Trump Faces the Limits of Bluster

A world grown numb to the slaughter of civilians in Syria has been roused in the last 48 hours by photographs on social media of lifeless men, women and children in the rebel-held town of Douma, many with white foam coming from their…

Trump’s real Syria policy is hypocrisy

After a week of signaling an imminent exit from the Syrian conflict, President Trump mixed his messages once more with a furious set of tweets Sunday. Responding to reports of another potential chemical weapons strike carried out by the…

Trump Needs to Be More Trumpian in Syria

The United States will be making an exit from Syria “very soon,” President Trump said late last month in Ohio. “Let the other people take care of it now.” In making this announcement, the president ignored a cardinal principle of an…

Can Trump Take Out Syria’s Assad?

Once again, Syrian President Bashir Al-Assad is accused of using chemical weapons against his own people. Reports from multiple sources detail the attack, which appears incontestable despite Russian denials. The Trump administration has…

Is Vladimir Putin Trump’s top adviser on Syria?

Could the answer to Trump's abrupt announcement that, "We'll be coming out of Syria, like, very soon," -- which left even White House aides scrambling to figure out what the President had in mind -- lead us back to Russian President…

Trump Weighs More Robust Military Strike Against Syria

President Trump and his advisers on Tuesday weighed a more robust retaliatory strike against Syria than last year’s missile attack, reasoning that only an escalation of force would look credible and possibly serve as a deterrent against…

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