Civilian War Victims Receive Recognition in US Law
By Sahr Muhammedally When the US military was deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq, it had no plan for addressing…
Aid for Drone Victims
To the Editor: Re “Questions on Drone Strike Find Only Silence” (front page, Nov. 23): Faisal bin Ali Jaber, a…
Five Ways Obama Can Fix Drones Right Now
The way proponents talk about them, you’d think Zeus gifted drones straight from his backpack. Alternatively, you might also believe…
Civilians can benefit when the military learns from its mistakes
Letter to the Editor by Sarah Holewinski Thomas E. Ricks was exactly right in his Oct. 27 Sunday Opinion column,…
Marla Ruzicka’s Heroism
Arifa had lost nearly everything when Marla Ruzicka walked through the door and into her life. The American intervention in…
Agreement on Chemical Weapons Alone Will Not End Suffering in Syria
Syria has indicated that it will give up chemical weapons and may even sign the chemical weapons convention, but the…
Syria’s IDPs Flee Homes But Find No Safety
By Catherine Cheney, World Politics Review This article was reprinted with the permission of World Politics Review, where it was originally…
Will the U.S. Go Back to Training Mali’s Military?
Originally published in Rolling Stone As U.S. drones continue to rain Hellfire missiles down from the Yemen sky, another region…
Assisting Syrian War Victims
Today representatives of Syrian civil society released the “Syrian Transition Roadmap.”This 238-page document presents plans for constitutional, judicial, political, and…