Tony Blair thought himself brave for facing down the dictator of a 5th rate military power with an economy as big as a mid sized British city. Blair spent years justifying the invasion of Iraq after it had happened, defining it as a moral decision dictated to him by God to stop ...read more

From the BBC: Gunmen have attacked a Syrian pro-government TV channel, killing seven people, state media say. Journalists and security guards died in the attack on al-Ikhbariya TV south of Damascus, Sana news agency reported. Hours earlier, President Bashar al-Assad said ...read more

A top U.N. human rights official accused Syria Thursday of engaging in crimes against humanity. "They are both widespread and they are being committed in a systematic manner," said Ivan Simonovic, assistant secretary-general of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human ...read more

Major Western powers say they are expelling senior Syrian diplomats following the killing of 108 people in the Houla region of Syria on Friday. The United States, France, the UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, Canada, Australia, the Netherlands and Switzerland all took action. Most of ...read more

Syrian forces are executing scores of suspected opposition sympathisers in the northern city of Idlib, often burning their bodies in piles or torching them in their homes then sending family members to find them, witnesses say. Idlib residents who spoke to an Amnesty ...read more