Jordan is worried that the growing sectarian conflict in Iraq will impact the huge Iraqi and Syrian refugee population inside its border, destabilizing it. . ... In Iraq itself, the fractured Sunni and Shia resistances almost united to fight for national liberation against the..…

But this tenet might have to be qualified when looking at the concrete circumstances of the case, as for example, the violence of ISIL (Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) against their undoubted oppressors—the Iraqi and Syrian states. ..…

In his new book Inside Syria, veteran left-wing journalist Reese Erlich examines the history of Syria from its origins in the imperialist division of the Ottoman Empire to the rise of the Assad family dictatorship and the Syrian revolution and counterrevolution today. For those who want to understand..…