The Global Atlas

The following is an adaptation of a presentation I gave on April 12, 2014 at the Boston Consortium for Arab Region Studies conference: ...

On December 18, 2011, Iraqis watched in mixed fear and jubilation as the last US tanks rolled across the border into Kuwait, marking an off...

The world breathed a collective sigh of relief after President Obama's speech last night, a speech in which Obama indicated that a vote ...

Over the last week, The Global Atlas’s metaphorical lights have been off as the three lead contributors were either out of town, dealing wi...

The videos are heart-wrenching to watch: a young boy, screaming and crying with other children in the street while bodies lie around them....

In the 19 months since the Obama Administration effectively removed the last of the U.S. troops in Iraq, the embattled ...

Evidence has been amassing in recent days to support the notion that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons in the ongoing civil wa...

As tracked through a series of articles in The Global Atlas ( here , here and here ), we've been follwoing the situation in Syria clos...

On Saturday, and after three days of detention by factional elements of the Syrian opposition called the Martyrs of Yarmouk, twenty-one UN ...