9 Best Articles in 2022
The New York Times
How the New Syria Took Shape
The New York Times
From 2019 · Russia, Turkey and Bashar al-Assad carved up northern Syria as the Americans retreated.
Shared by 38, including luis antónio santos, Armin Wolf, Martina Pugliese, David Bauer, Cameron Yick, Max Roser
The Telegraph
Syria, where the world collectively lost its humanity
The Telegraph
4 min read · From 2020 · Every year in my job covering Syria, I told myself that at least the next one couldn't possibly be worse than the last.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Mark Little, Charlie O'Keefe, Lali
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The European Refugee Crisis and Syria Explained
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From 2015 · Why is the refugee crisis all over the news? How is this related to Syria? Why should we care at all? Donate to the United Nations Refugee Agency: http://don...
Shared by 40, including José Rodrigues, David Bauer, Dominik Allemann, Marco Unternaehrer, Alberto
The Atlantic
The Obama Doctrine
The Atlantic
From 2017 · The U.S. president talks through his hardest decisions about America’s role in the world.
Reader View · Shared by 146, including Marcus Kuhn, Daniel Fritzsche, julian 🚮✨, Katja Evertz, Josh Felser, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ethan Anderson, Glenn Greenwald, Mark Kaigwa, Thomas Power
Newsweek
Exclusive: Turkey bombs US special forces in Syria attack, apparently by mistake
Newsweek
3 min read · From 2019 · President Trump's announced pullout of U.S. troops from Syria prompted an attack by Turkey on Syrian Kurds. U.S. special forces were shelled.
Reader View · Shared by 34, including Carly, LARRY ELKAN, Tara Imani, AIA NCIDQ ASID, Karl Groves (he/him), Chris Sacca 🇺🇸
The Washington Post
9 questions about Syria you were too embarrassed to ask
The Washington Post
~11 min read · From 2017 · Yes, the first question is "What is Syria?"
Reader View · Shared by 24, including Francisco Trindade, Axel Hammarbäck, Glyn Britton, David Bauer
The Atlantic
How Syria Came to This
The Atlantic
~11 min read · From 2018 · The Syrian civil war’s unabated violence continues to cause monumental suffering for millions of Syrians, with no end in sight. Over the past decade, the conflict has enabled the jihadist group ISIS to take temporary control of large parts of Iraq and Syria, exacerbated tensions between the United States and Russia, and given rise to the worst humanitarian crisis in recent history. How did it all start, and why is the war threatening to mutate into an international conflict? To anyone who’s lost track, getAbstract recommends this useful chronology of the Syrian civil war which the Middle East specialist Andrew J. Tabler put together for The Atlantic.
The New York Times
The Uncounted
The New York Times
From 2017 · An on-the-ground investigation reveals that the U.S.-led battle against ISIS — hailed as the most precise air campaign in history — is killing far more Iraqi civilians than the coalition has…
Reader View · Shared by 75, including Nick Lüthi, Florian Hanke 🍎, Connecticut SEO, David Bauer, Dan Froomkin/PressWatchers.org ☮️, Ethan Anderson, JEROME LINDSAY, Kim Dik, Bjorn Larsen, sull
Eurogamer
Understanding sympathy and solidarity in games
Eurogamer
5 min read · Jan 17th · A look at how games have attempted to depict modern Syria.
Reader View · Shared by 57
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The Guardian
How the barbaric lessons learned in Syria came to haunt one small, Ukrainian village
The Guardian
7 min read · Apr 30th · West of Kyiv, a Russian unit led by Syria veterans set up camp and began a drunken, murderous campaign
Reader View · Shared by 13
New Lines Magazine
How a Massacre of Nearly 300 in Syria Was Revealed
New Lines Magazine
20+ min read · Apr 27th · War crime researchers tricked Assad intelligence officers into confessing to the crime, and a chilling journalistic investigation followed
Reader View · Shared by 24
The New York Times
Turkey’s Plan to Draw Refugees Back to Syria: Homes for 1 Million
The New York Times
5 min read · May 5th · President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says Turkey will build homes, schools, hospitals and more in northern Syria, but experts question whether refugees will return willingly.
Reader View · Shared by 7
The Guardian
Russia has deployed up to 20,000 mercenaries in bid to take Ukraine’s Donbas region
The Guardian
2 min read · Apr 19th · Russia is luring mercenaries from Syria, Libya and elsewhere in effort to capture as much as possible of eastern Ukraine
Reader View · Shared by 18, including Grzegorz Wapiński
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American Theatre
How Little Amal Walked the Walk
American Theatre
~16 min read · Jan 10th · As the giant puppet wended her way from Syria to England, she retraced the steps of Europe’s refugee crisis, forging beautiful connections along the way.
Reader View · Shared by 55
The New York Times
ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape
The New York Times
~15 min read · From 2015 · Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool.
Reader View · Shared by 53, including Daniel Fritzsche, grimm, Leslie D, Florian Hanke 🍎, Ryan Boren, julian 🚮✨, Leonardo Borges, George M 🇪🇺
The New York Times
How the U.S. Hid an Airstrike That Killed Dozens of Civilians in Syria
The New York Times
~19 min read · 2021-11-13 · The military never conducted an independent investigation into a 2019 bombing on the last bastion of the Islamic State, despite concerns about a secretive commando force.
Reader View · Shared by 90, including 艾未未 Ai Weiwei, Fabio Chiusi, Dave Nussbaum, Glenn Greenwald, Bilal Zuberi
The Atlantic
Iran Would Destroy Syria to Get Vengeance on Israel
The Atlantic
20+ min read · From 2018 · Iran has played a pivotal role in helping Bashar al-Assad’s regime regain the upper hand in Syria’s civil war. At first glance, the alliance between a revolutionary Shia theocracy and a staunch champion of secular Arab nationalism seems baffling. Some analysts have emphasized the common strategic interests the two countries share. For Iranian-American foreign policy analyst Karim Sadjadpour, however, Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s decision to back Syria’s brutal dictator stems from a much more elemental place: his deep-seated hatred of the state of Israel. getAbstract recommends this article to readers with an interest in Middle East politics.
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The Guardian
'Words have the power to heal': Syria's rebel librarians
The Guardian
~17 min read · 2021-03-16 · The long read: In a town under siege from Assad’s regime, a small group of revolutionaries found a new mission: to build a library from books rescued from the rubble. For those stranded in the city,…
Reader View · Shared by 81, including Marvin “Polymath but really Just Generalist” Liao, Jane
The Guardian
I was held hostage by Isis. They fear our unity more than our airstrikes
The Guardian
7 min read · From 2015 · In Syria I learned that Islamic State longs to provoke retaliation. We should not fall into the trap
Reader View · Shared by 48, including Luca Hammer, haldimann, Matthias Sala, George M 🇪🇺, Simon Wüthrich, adrianoesch
The New York Times
Erdogan’s Ambitions Go Beyond Syria. He Says He Wants Nuclear Weapons.
The New York Times
7 min read · From 2019 · A month before invading Kurdish areas in Syria, Turkey’s president said he “cannot accept” the West’s restrictions that keep him from a bomb.
Reader View · Shared by 19, including Trey Tweets Into the Void, Dr. Janet D. Stemwedel, PhD 🏳️🌈, Vishal Gulati (I back scientists), Amy Siskind 🏳️🌈
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Deep Empathy
deepempathy.mit.edu
2 min read · From 2017 · Deep Empathy: Can Artificial Intelligence induce empathy?
Reader View · Shared by 59, including Maja Grolimund-Kurth, Dominik Grolimund, Harald Ille, Ethan Anderson, Thomas Power, David Bauer, Chris Messina, Martina Grolimund, Klaus Eck
The Brookings Institution
Deconstructing Syria
The Brookings Institution
From 2015 · Michael O’Hanlon, an expert on national security and defense policy, outlines a plan for establishing a confederal Syria through localized safe zones. The report breaks down information on the current political climate in Syria and examines the history of US president Barack Obama’s political relations in the area so that readers without a strong topical background can follow. Nonetheless, getAbstract recommends this report mainly to policy makers seeking a resolution to the current climate in Syria, as well as those looking for a ray of hope in this complex crisis.
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