By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on May 4, 2014
This afternoon it is being reported that a deal has been struck over Homs City, allowing 2,250 people, mostly rebels, to evacuate. Continue reading
The Coming Fall of Homs
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Why Climate Change Had No Impact on the Syrian Uprising
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on May 1, 2014
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It is inevitable that when a complex situation erupts everybody will try to map their own specialities onto it. At the present time, where environmentalism is such a primary Western concern, it was perhaps always likely that the Syrian war would attract those determined to see this menace in every corner. It has happened before, with Darfur Continue reading
Use Force To Break The Terror-Sieges in Syria
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on April 1, 2014
Last September, a Save the Children report noted that children in suburbs of Damascus besieged by the regime were subsisting on “leaves, nuts, [and] fruits”. Throughout October it would become clear that a deliberate terror-famine was being waged by the regime against these rebellious districts, to starve them into submission. Continue reading
The Sahel Front
By Kyle Orton (@KyleWOrton) on March 28, 2014
A map of the Five Fronts command, an early effort at rebel unification that split the country into five strategic zones. The Sahel or Coast Front is also called the Central Front
On March 21, a major offensive began by anti-regime forces in the north of Latakia, an area where the regime has long been unable to re-fasten its rule. Continue reading
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