More than a week after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake hit Syria, outside help has been slow to arrive. Parts of the country that have been impacted fall into two main categories: ones that are under government control and those that are not. In opposition-held areas relief has been almost nonexistent.
President Obama is expected to make an explicit call today for Syrian President Bashar Assad to leave power. In addition, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will announce new sanctions against the Syrian regime. A United Nations spokesman says Assad called Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon this morning and told the Secretary General that the military and police operations […]
For several weeks we’ve watched as videos have trickled out of Syria onto YouTube and other websites. The Syrian activists who take the video say they are images of protests that turned violent at the hands of the Syrian government. While the images and sounds are horrible, journalists and monitoring agencies like Human […]