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By Taylor Marvin From the Saban Center, why private Gulf financing for Syria’s extremist rebels risks igniting sectarian conflict…
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By Taylor Marvin Transparency International’s yearly Corruption Perceptions Index unsurprisingly shows that corruption worsens in conflict areas. In Syria,…
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By Taylor Marvin PVG contributor Oliver Kaplan is interviewed by Colombia Reports on grassroots political participation and nonviolence in the country:…
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By Taylor Marvin After military victories, last week the Syrian Kurdish Party announced the formation of a transitional government…
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By Taylor Marvin On documenting conflict: In Syria, freelance journalist Andrea Glioti  faced challenges covering the conflict, including…
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By Taylor Marvin Turkish market on Syrian border serves the discerning rebel, selling camouflage fatigues, gas masks, and black…
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By Taylor Marvin Recalling Lionel Beehner’s recent post, more on the Syrian refugee crisis: the historic scale of the humanitarian…
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By Taylor Marvin The dilemma of Syria’s Alawites, many of whom dislike Assad for drawing Syria into the destructive civil…
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By Taylor Marvin Despite recent progress, UN chief Ban Ki-moon warns that efforts to catalog and destroy Syria’s chemical weapons…
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By Taylor Marvin As always in war, ordinary Syrians continue to suffer, including the country’s Christian minority. Refugees live…
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