Syria's Civil War Is Over -- Russia Won
John Schindler, Observer
It's time to accept the painful strategic reality of Syria's terrible fratricide -- and move on.
John Schindler, Observer
It's time to accept the painful strategic reality of Syria's terrible fratricide -- and move on.
Hussain & Hisham, Intercept
Yassin al-Haj Saleh is a fierce critic of an international consensus that has come to see the Syrian conflict in Assadâ??s termsâ??as a fight against terrorism.
Laura Rozen, Al-Monitor
The U.S. says a military operation to isolate the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa needs to get underway within weeks, but Turkey as well as Washington's Syrian Arab allies oppose any plan to use Kurdish forces to take the city.
Sentaku Magazine
There are four flashpoints in East Asia and Japan will be greatly impacted if a crisis develops in any of them.
Hayder al-Khoei, Euro Council on Foreign Relations
The military plan A is working well, for now. But if it encounters problems, the myriad of actors involved could start to pull in different directions, to the detriment of Mosul.
Andrew Higgins, NY Times
The destitute mountainous area of South Ossetia first declared itself independent from Georgia in 1990, but nobody outside the region paid much attention until Russia invaded in August 2008 and recognized South Ossetia's claims to statehood. With that, the territory joined Abkhazia in western Georgia, the Moldovan enclave of Transnistria and eastern Ukraine as a âÂÂfrozen zone,â an area of Russian control within neighboring states, useful for things like preventing... Читать дальше...
Bert Mizusawa, USA Today
His doctrine favors smart money over stupid money, whether it's spent inside or outside the USA.
James Stavridis, Time
5 reasons the U.S. should do all it can to see the peace accord come to fruition.
Nanjala Nyabola, For. Policy
The tech giant's no-frills app gives governments a version of the internet they can influence, if not totally control.
New York Times
The U.S. is planning aà trillion-dollar modernizationà of its nuclear forces over the next few decades, but not everyone agrees on what âÂÂmodernizationâ of the arsenal should look like. Last month, it was revealed that Hillary Clintonà disagreesà with President Obama's plans to build smaller, more targeted nuclear-tipped weapons.à Ã
L. Todd Wood, Washington Times
Many pundits have attempted to explain the rationale behind Russian President Vladimir Putin's actions in Ukraine, Syria, and elsewhere. I think it is very simple: Putin wants to make Russia great again. He has some successes and some failures.
Nancy Yousseff, Daily Beast
The Pentagon swears that the assault on the ISIS capital of Raqqa will begin in âÂÂweeks.' Who will attack the city? Well, that's still up in the air.
Ilya Lozovsky, Foreign Policy
From small towns to the halls of parliament, women are at the forefront of change.
Edward-Isaac Dovere, Politico
'They are spending a lot of time figuring out the best way to try to persuade him to do it if she wins,' a source tells POLITICO.
Andrew Mitrovica, Al Jazeera
Sooner or later Canadians' appetite for Justin Trudeau's charming act will fade - whether he knows it or not.
Charles Crawford, Telegraph
ack in 1902, future mass murderer Vladimir Ilyich Lenin published his pamphlet "What Is To Be Done?" (??? ???????) about the selfish reluctance of the working classesà to rise up against capitalism. Now 114 years later, some Western governments ponder what needs to be done about Russia itself.à Ã
Rustam Qobil, BBC
In Central Asia, a crisis is brewing over water and electricity. Some countries have energy, the others water - but they cannot seem to agree how to share resources.
William Davies, London Review of Books
I recently took part in a research project prompted by the government-sponsored campaign of 2013, when Theresa May was home secretary, in which vans carried billboards bearing the words âÂÂIn the UK illegally? Go home or face arrest.' In order to understand how such a thing as thatà .à .à .
David Mikics, Tablet Magazine
Esther Schor's lively and tragic new history of Esperanto, Ludwik Leyzer Zamenhof's universal, pacifist, bridge-building language of humanity, traces why the globalist dream died.
Thitinan Pongsudhirak, East Asia Forum
The passing of King Bhumibol Adulyadej brings Thailand as we know it to a close. Over a seven-decade reign, the late monarch presided over Thailand's climb from a village backwater to a modern nation. His glorious reign was enabled by conditions and circumstances that were uniquely suited for his leadership. But he has left behind a grieving and grateful population who must now chart their own path into an uncertain future.
Ullrich Fichtner, Hauke Goos & Martin Hesse, Spiegel
For most of its 146 years, Deutsche Bank was the embodiment of German values: reliable and safe. Now, the once-proud institution is facing the abyss. SPIEGEL tells the story of how Deutsche's 1990s rush to join the world banking elite paved the way for its own downfall.