Victor Angelo

Madaya, the Syrian town that has been under siege for more than six months, surrounded by government troops, is a symbol. As are the towns...

John Kerry, the US State Secretary, and Sergei Lavrov, the Russian Foreign Minister met today in Vienna with their counterparts from Turke...

We usually emphasise that each national crisis should have a political response and end up with an agreement between the parties. In the c...

The operation that killed a key leader of the terrorist organization called “Islamic State” (IS) should be underlined as a major developme...

Syria´s tragedy is spreading fast into the neighbouring countries, particularly in Iraq, Lebanon and Jordan. Chaos and human distress have...

It is urgent to pull together an international response to the Islamic State terrorists. This is no time for further hesitation, for soul-...

Syria´s crisis has now disappeared from the screens. It has joined the dramatic roll that lists all the long-lasting tragedies that the wo...

President Putin’s opinion text in the New York Times is worth the reading. First, it is well written. Second, it says a few things that ma...

John Kerry’s remark on the international control of Syrian chemical weapons might have been a blunder. But thanks to Lavrov, the Russian F...

International law and moral principles are against collective punishment. One cannot punish the people for the crimes perpetrated by some ...

As we reach the end of today, we notice that the President Obama’s military option is losing momentum in the US House of Representatives a...

Now we know the Damascus official explanation. It runs basically along the following lines:            Saudi Arabia and Western intell...

US State Secretary John Kerry’s statement on Syria was an excellent piece of work. Brilliant, well thought through and properly grounded. ...

Very quietly but very clearly, the big international business bosses and their friends in the academic and media worlds here in the EU hav...

As things stand, we can expect over the weekend some cruise missiles to be launched on Syria from war vessels sailing in the Mediterranean...

The gas attack against civilians in the suburbs of Damascus simply reveals how little respect Assad and his circle have for the internatio...

The true message that came out of today’s Friends of Syria meeting is that the many rebellions are losing the war. That’s the actual trend...

The US Administration has now found evidence that the Syrian army made use – “limited use” – of chemical weapons. This is, for the Ame...

The extreme fragmentation of the Syrian opposition has become their most critical weakness.  Just in the area next to the Golan Heights, a...