By Robert G. Rabil

How this key city became a strategic focal point for Assad, the Syrian rebels and the Turks.

Saturday's meeting in Geneva won't overcome Syria's internal divisions. Meanwhile, the world watches the end of the beginning of a civil war.

Washington's tough talk fell upon deaf ears. Damascus is not afraid of taking on the White House (again).

An ongoing debate over the role of political Islam and its violent ramifications is raging across the Muslim world, especially in the Arab world.

"In order to have a future, and lay the foundations of justice for the future, the people of Iraq must come to terms with the atrocities perpetrated in their name during three decades of Ba'thist rule.