September 22, 2015
Today marks thirty-five years since the start of the Iran-Iraq war, which lasted eight years, the longest conventional war of the twentieth...
blog
August 28, 2014
Last week, the U.S. government announced that it had completed destruction of Syria’s declared chemical weapons stockpile. This complex...
Reportage
June 29, 2014
After a full century, direct memories of the First World War - a largely purposeless conflict that wasted lives with unthinkable profligacy...
Opinion
September 11, 2013
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible U.S...