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ANALYSIS
“After seven years and interventions by regional and global powers, the humanitarian crisis has heightened instead of abating, as forces loyal to Assad’s regime and his Russian and Iranian backers seek an outright military victory instead of a negotiated political settlement,” Kareem Shaheen writes for the Guardian.
“Sieges of combatants to induce their surrender are considered lawful warfare. But the Assad regime employs siege aimed at civilians in opposition-held areas as a form of collective punishment and control. That is a war crime,” Annie Sparrow writes for Foreign Policy.
“There is no area in Syria that has accomplished what Syrians wanted in 2011,” Rabi Nasr said in an interview with Status Audio Magazine.
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