In Syria, the Assad father and son dictatorship ... The Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 15 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up a wide range of topics, including culture, arts and ...

I pray that the sounds coming from the Syrian sky will be the chirping of birds, not the booming of bombs. —The Asahi Shimbun, Dec. 10 Vox Populi, Vox Dei is a popular daily column that takes up ...

And they're paying more attention to Syria, four years into the civil war that has killed a quarter of a million people, given rise to ISIS, and drawn in American and Russian military involvement.