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Syria needs another miracle for peace to stay
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 18/12/2024
» They're still celebrating the miraculous fall of the Assad regime in Damascus, and the killing has stopped in Syria except for parts of the north, east and south. So what are the odds that the man whose fighters brought down the regime, Ahmed al-Sharaa, can bring peace, prosperity and even democracy to Syria?
Rebel win to reshape Syria's fragile future
News, John J. Metzler, Published on 12/12/2024
» The Assad family dictatorship, which ran Syria for 53 years and withstood 13 years of bitter civil war, collapsed in just over a week. A sweeping series of Islamic rebel attacks, starting in late November, captured key cities from Aleppo in the north to Homs and Hama, which fell like dominos, creating an unstoppable military momentum on the road to Damascus.
Syria: It's those jihadis on the march again
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 04/12/2024
» One week in, the ceasefire in Lebanon seems to be holding, but everything is connected: only three days later, the civil war in Syria started up again after a de facto four-year truce.
A glimpse of the looming migrant 'Armageddon'
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 06/03/2020
» Turkey has opened the floodgates, and soon Europe will be drowning in immigrants. "Hundreds of thousands have crossed," Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan claimed on television, "and soon it will reach millions." And it must be true because you can see it live on your medium of choice.
Chinese conspiracy?
News, Postbag, Published on 28/10/2019
» Barry Kenyon is right in pointing out the ridiculously bureaucratic and seemingly hostile attitude of Thailand's immigration authorities which is making the kingdom a far less welcoming destination for Western retirees and tourists alike, but he is completely wrong when he says that in Myanmar "nobody has heard of the TM30"!
Turkish forces are shielding Syrians and Kurds
News, Evren Dağdelen Akgün, Published on 21/10/2019
» I would like to set the record straight regarding Operation Peace Spring as some of the pieces in the Bangkok Post over the past few days have especially been concerning in terms of facts.
Russian ruse may have duped Trump in Syria
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 16/10/2019
» Russia and its Syrian ally Bashar al-Assad win, the Kurds lose, and the United States leaves in disgrace. It has been a hectic few days on the Turkish-Syrian border.
Harsh US economic blockades risk provoking war
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 03/07/2019
» US President Donald Trump has based his foreign policy on a series of harsh economic blockades, each designed to frighten, coerce, and even starve the target country into submitting to American demands. While the practice is less violent than a military attack, and the blockade is through financial means rather than the navy, the consequences are often dire for civilian populations. As such, economic blockades by the United States should be scrutinised by the United Nations Security Council under international law and the UN Charter.
Trump's Syria withdrawal is a chance for peace
News, Jeffrey D Sachs, Published on 04/01/2019
» President Donald Trump's announced withdrawal of US forces from Syria has met with near-universal condemnation by Democrats and Republicans alike. That says less about Mr Trump than it does about the US foreign policy establishment's blinkered vision.
Bring English to life
News, Postbag, Published on 27/12/2018
» Re: "Rethink English class", (PostBag, Dec 26).