Baghdad is still burning
One of the very best blogs to be written out of Baghdad while the city was under US military occupation was Baghdad Burning. Written by a young Iraqi woman who called herself “Riverbend“, it...
View ArticleA map that blogs
I described a series of maps of the violence in Syria a few weeks ago, and today Al Jazeera provided a new interactive that maps the different groups that compose the Syrian opposition; here’s a...
View ArticleMass Murder in Slow Motion (I): East Ghouta
This is the first of a series of posts – continuing my discussions of Cities under Siege in Syria here, here and here – that will examine the siege of East Ghouta in detail. Today I begin with some...
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