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Saturday 21 September 2013
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'Healthcare workers and the injured are protected entities within international humanitarian law but here they are deemed high value targets.' Photograph: George Ourfalian/Reuters
Saleyha Ahsan: The Assad regime still poses a significant risk to civilians, doctors, the injured and those seeking medical attention
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Friday 20 September 2013
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Martin Rowson cartoon 21.09.13. Photograph: Martin Rowson 2013
Syria's deputy prime minister says the war has reached a stalemate
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Wednesday 18 September 2013
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Filmmaker and adviser to rebel fighters Matthew VanDyke is taken around the ruined streets of Aleppo by an FSA fighter and photographer, who describe how the war has changed the lives of Syrians for ever
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Friday 13 September 2013
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Vadim Nikitin: The Russian president's New York Times op-ed was a scathing indictment of Barack Obama's morality-based foreign policy Continue reading...
President Barack Obama shakes hands with Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, at the G20 in St Petersburg, Russia. Photograph: Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP
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Saturday 7 September 2013
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Syrians gather to identify some of the victims of an alleged nerve gas attack. Photograph: AP
Matthew Barzun: A belief in the democratic process is what binds the countries together in responding to the crisis in Syria
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Friday 6 September 2013
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Editorial: The St Petersburg summit shows that while the US has no real global rivals, it can no longer rely on getting its own way
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'Tony Blair makes the perfect case study for the psychologist’s chair.' Photograph: Mauricia Lima/AFP/Getty Images
John Kampfner: Blair is still in denial over Iraq, but are we prepared to leave a rights-based international law to others, or to no one at all?
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Slavoj Žižek: The ongoing struggle we see is a false one, lacking the kind of radical-emancipatory opposition clearly perceptible in Egypt Continue reading...
Demonstrators protest against President Assad in Qara, near Damascus. Photograph: Handout/Reuters
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Wednesday 4 September 2013
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Natalia Antonova: It is wariness of Syrian rebels, not callousness towards the dead, that drives any Russian opposition towards intervention Continue reading...
'It is a collective fear of aiding radical Islamists that partially informs the Russian public as it supports the Kremlin’s line on Syria.' Photograph: Stringer/Reuters
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Monday 2 September 2013
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Nick Dearden: Britain is in no position to lecture on human rights when Vince Cable's authorisation follows a long history of arms sales Continue reading...
Defence Systems and Equipment International arms fair at the Excel Centre, Docklands, London. Photograph: Rex Features
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Simon Jenkins: First thoughts: A sceptical public recognises the futility of launching a missile strike that will not topple Bashar al-Assad Continue reading...
A mother and father weep over their child's body killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack on the Damascus suburb of Ghouta, Syria. Photograph: REX/Erbin News/NurPhoto
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Sunday 1 September 2013
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Jonathan Steele: Obama is asking a jury of safe spectators to press the yes or no button for military strikes. Will they vote for an end to empire? Continue reading...
Illustration by Andrzej Krauze
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Saturday 31 August 2013
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Peter Beaumont: Public opinion, like old generals, is always preparing to fight the last war
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Paddy Ashdown: Labour has placed in question not only its tradition of internationalism but the future of progressive politics in the UK Continue reading...
The Labour leader Ed Miliband addresses the House of Commons during the debate on whether Britain should take military action against Syria. Photograph: Reuters
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Andrew Murray: It is now clear, as indeed it was in 2003, that most people have no wish to embroil Britain militarily in the Middle East Continue reading...
People outside the houses of parlliament protest against a military attack on Syria from the US, Britain or France. Photograph: Matt Dunham/AP
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