by Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall | Nov 4, 2013 | Monitor
October 31 marked a major milestone in our determined effort to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons program. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced it is now confident that no additional chemical agents or munitions can be...
by lundry | Feb 28, 2013 | Analysis, COMOPS Journal, Complexity, Framing, Indonesia, Media, Southeast Asia, Strategic Comm.
By Chris Lundry Indonesian Islamist site syabab.com featured a story on Syria’s embattled leader Bashar al-Assad which states that his looming demise is the culmination of a “Western Plot.” This “news” is fascinating for those who have paid even just a little...
by Matt Compton | Dec 4, 2012 | Monitor
President Barack Obama delivers remarks to the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction symposium held at the National Defense University at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., Dec. 3, 2012. Joing the President on stage are, from left: Defense Secretary Leon Panetta;...
by David Axe | Oct 19, 2012 | Monitor
View Syria: downed aerial vehicles in a larger map In July, the embattled regime of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad unleashed its jet fighters against the growing rebel forces of the Free Syrian Army, marking a major escalation of the bloody civil war. The rebels...
by David Axe | Aug 28, 2012 | Monitor
Syrian president Bashar Al Assad’s jet fighters and helicopters continue to pound Free Syrian Army rebels in Damascus, Aleppo and other battleground cities, contributing to a death toll reportedly as high as 320 in one town in a single week. Attacks by jet...