by Ian Platz | Jan 16, 2013 | Monitor
Exclusive: Secret State Department cable: Chemical weapons used in Syria Josh Rogin / Foreign Policy A secret State Department cable has concluded that the Syrian military likely used chemical weapons against its own people in a deadly attack last month, The Cable has...
by Ian Platz | Jan 16, 2013 | Monitor
ASP Fellow Joshua Foust wrote for PBS Need to Know about the French military intervention in Mali. Over the weekend France launched an assault on northern Mali, part of an operation to unseat the extremists who have occupied half the country since last year’s coup....
by Justin Yarros | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
Confronting Iran – Again Doyle McManus/LA Times In this Op-Ed, Doyle McManus argues that anyone who expects Chuck Hagel to become a strong force for restraint in Obama’s second term may be disappointed. Instead, we are likely to have an antiwar president...
by David Axe | Jan 14, 2013 | Monitor
The international counterattack against Islamic militants in Mali ramped up over the weekend, with air strikes by French warplanes and gunship helicopters and a French-supported airborne assault by Malian troops into Islamist held territory.
by William Chodkowski | Dec 21, 2012 | Monitor
A Third Intifada and Castro’s Demise: 30 Global Crises to Watch For in 2013 Micah Zenko and Andrew Miller/The Atlantic President Obama and his new foreign policy team cannot plan for, prevent, or mitigate all the crises that the United States could potentially...
