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May 14, 2013 7:55 AM What Makes People Flee Conflict?

The fifth largest city in Jordan is the Zaatari refugee camp, where approximately 175,000 Syrians fleeing their country’s war now live.  This is but a fraction of the 500,000 Syrians who have fled to Jordan, and an even smaller fraction of...

By John Sides

October 24, 2012 12:19 PM Romney’s Geography Problem

I missed this on Monday night: Syria is Iran’s only ally in the Arab world. It’s their route to the sea. Apparently, it was no mere slip of the tongue: Romney has said it repeatedly before, and been called on...

By Mark Kleiman

January 13, 2012 11:02 AM Hollywood and Bashar Assad

Andrew Sullivan flags a propaganda video made by the Assad regime that uses Darth Vader’s theme as background music. That would actually be a compliment to Assad; at least Darth was competent and cool-looking. The movie joke I have heard...

By Keith Humphreys

May 11, 2011 11:14 AM Syria and (the lack of) the Soviet Union

With mounting evidence of the Syrian regime’s willingness to resort to the use of unrestrained force to try to stop protests in that country (see here, here, and here), including the use of soccer stadiums to hold prisoners, I wanted...

By Joshua Tucker