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Comment: Western elites find it hard to believe Assad is a monster because he walks, talks and dresses rather like them, writes George Morris
Comment: Since the Arab Spring revolutions threatened the status quo in the Middle East, tyrants, sympathisers and extremists have attempted to pull back the gains the people made.
Comment: The targeting of a leftist party which supports Kurdish rights may be a prelude to further violence and political isolation ahead of fresh elections, writes Vijay Prashad.
Comment: Used on the battlefield since the First World War, chemical weapons have been getting steadily more lethal, writes Justin Bronk.
Comment: The Turkish premier has been forced to abandon his plans to oust Assad, writes Yvo Fitzherbert.
Comment: The world has ignored the ethnic-cleansing of the Ottoman-Russian War of 1878, allowing it to play out again over a century later in Syria and Iraq [AFP]
Obama’s decision to launch a major new project in Iraq to be augmented by up to 1,000 more American troops reveals how IS/Iraq/Syria his administration is oriented.
Blog: Going overboard to impress reporters is certainly one way to project soft power in the fight against the Islamic State group, but what happens when the group is defeated?
Comment: Bernie Sanders positioned himself as a radical leftist, but his hidden conservatism was uncloaked by his support for military intervention against the Islamic State group, writes Sam Hamad.
Comment: The moral cost of allowing Assad's forces and allies to behave as they choose is being an accomplice to the mass-murder in Aleppo and empowering extremism, writes Kyle Orton.