Current Event Cat of the Day: Syria’s New Years Resolution: Geneva Peace Talks
Geneva talks worked out well for the Iran nuclear deal, so now Syria is giving it a try. Starting on January 22, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government will hold the first direct talks with...
View ArticleCurrent Event Cat of the Day: First Batch of Chemical Weapons
Syria is one step closer to being chemical weapon-free, but many many steps away from ending their two year civil war. The first batch of chemical weapons materials bid farewell to Syria on Tuesday in...
View ArticleCurrent Event Cat of the Day: Syria Peace Conference
Wednesday marked the beginning of a long-delayed peace conference on Syria, but things are off to a rough start. The peace conference, set in the lakeside Swiss city of Montreux, marks the first time...
View ArticleCurrent Event Cat: Fallen Syrian Military Jet
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan apparently mistook a Syrian military jet for the Twitter Bird and allowed his country’s armed forces to shoot it down. Arguing that the Syrian military...
View ArticleSyrian Rebels Bid Farewell to Bloodstained Homs… And Other News
Well, they had a good run… I guess. With just a month to go until Syria’s election, the rebels evacuated their last stronghold in the central Syrian city of Homs. The Homs withdrawal marks the end of...
View ArticleAssad: Amnesty for Some! And Other News
Less than a week after winning another 7 year term in Syria’s “democratic election”, Bashar al-Assad declared a general amnesty for all prisoners within the country. Syria’s pro-government Al Ikhbariya...
View ArticleCurrent Event Cat of the Day: War on ISIS
Watch out ISIS, eleven years, thousands of lives, and $1.7 trillion later, we’re going back in! But to a lesser extent… In his address to the nation, President Obama outlined a multi-phase plan for...
View ArticleBombs Over Baghdad… I mean Syria. And Other News…
The U.S. war major counter-terrorism operation against ISIS has begun in Syria. On Monday night, the United States—along with their new buddies Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, and the United Arab...
View ArticleThe Rules According to ISIS
After beheading two American journalists, ISIS forces in Deir Ezzor, Syria, have issued 11 rules to journalists who want to report from the region while avoiding being abducted and killed. The 11...
View ArticleDamn It, FedEx! ISIS Got U.S. Weapons Package
In another instance of ‘giving weapons to foreigners gone wrong’, the Pentagon admitted that ISIS got its hands on one of the 28 bundles of weapons and medical supplies that the U.S. dropped to Kurdish...
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