Allowing Russia to become top dog in the Middle East has consequences for Europe – including Britain.
You might think North America and Europe, with all our wealth and power, could deal with a civil war in a single country. Apparently not.
To date, she has seen foreign affairs through the prism of domestic security rather than that of intervention abroad.
Trump’s antics are a threat to the stability and peace of Europe.
The former Shadow Home Secretary met Assad in Damascus.
Foreign Office ministers are stuck in the mentality of prioritising geopolitical ploys over a grave humanitarian crisis: this has to change.
Syrians will remember the promises we made and failed to keep for generations.
The lesson is not that military intervention never works – it is that it will fail strategically without proper reconstruction.
We must not send the message that if you kill 240,000 in Syria, you get away with it, but if you kill 140 in France then you’re in trouble.
The idea that Turkey is somehow backing ISIS has become a popular meme, assiduously spread online by Russian agents provocateurs, and taken up by some in Western Europe,
We must be careful to learn the lessons of our past experiences in the region.
So much of the present crisis – and of the intervening suffering – can be traced to our failure to move decisively against Assad two years ago.
America, Egypt, Pakistan: former allies are finding reasons to distance themselves.