The truth is that the interpretation of others’ legacies often reveals a great deal about us and our values. And is often less about the complexity of the lives of those with whom we engage.
The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning the violence by the Syrian government. Washington Post UN Correspondent Colum Lynch says the UN resolution, which is not enforceable, will have little impact.
The civil war in Syria has created a major food crisis, according to a new assessment. Anchor Aaron Schachter gets details from WFP spokeswoman, Caroline Hurford, and asks what can be done.
Syria was rocked Wednesday morning by a deadly suicide bombing that killed the defense minister and President Bashar al-Assad's brother-in-law, the military's deputy chief of staff. It's a further sign the tide of the revolution may be turning.
Lebanon has become home to thousands of Syrian refugees, trying to flee the ongoing violence in the Middle Eastern country. Now, at least in one area of Lebanon, tensions are breaking into the open, with Syrians and Lebanese kidnapping one another over the weekend.
Waves of Syrian refugees to neighboring Lebanon and Jordan are threatening to destabilize the region.
Joshua Landis, director of the Middle Eastern Studies program at the University of Oklahoma tells host Marco Werman that more assertive US intervention in Syria is unlikely to quell the violence there.
The US and many other nations are expelling top Syrian diplomats, blaming the Syrian government for the massacre of 100 people in Houla last week. About one-third of the victims are children.
The first eye-witness accounts have emerged from the Syrian town of Houla, where more than a hundred people were killed on Friday in what the United Nations is calling a brutal massacre.