Washington views any effort to curb Israel's freedom to fly sorties when and where it fancies in Syria as a threat to regional stability.

What evidence is there to justify western 'fears', reported by the Financial Times, that Syria and Iran are developing the capacity to build atomic weapons?

As David Cameron pushes for escalating western intervention in Syria even some Conservative MPs are voicing concerns that Britain is being dragged into yet another war.

The furies of civil war grow ever fiercer and the war has long ago reached the stage of what in Northern Ireland we used to call "the politics of the last atrocity".

Not only will more intervention by the western powers increase the death toll, it may not give them the control they crave either.

Patrick Cockburn says the situation in areas of Syria he has visited is wholly different from the picture given to the world both by foreign leaders and by the foreign media.

The intention of the British, US and French governments is clear: to use the fears about chemical weapons to move from secret intervention to no fly zones, air strikes and possible incursions.

The question is: Will military intervention take place end of this year? Or will it wait for a declaration of war against Iran in the coming spring at the most?

All the usual pseudo-experts who couldn't find Syria on a map have been warning us again of the mustard gas, chemical agents, biological agents that Syria might possess – and might use.

Propagandizing on behalf of the US government by the loyal legion of stenographers in the elite American media has allowed the Obama administration to renew its threat of military intervention.

What is happening to the Kurdish population in Syria? Analysis from the Kurdish Federation UK.

It has been clear for some months that the US election would mark a turning point and that its almost certain outcome, whoever won, would be an escalation of western intervention in the country.

Jonathan Freedland's bizarre sense of priorities leads him to attack peace campaigners, rather than warmongers carrying out drone attacks in Pakistan, or bombing children in Afghanistan.

Tariq Ali says opposing Assad should not lead to backing a Western intervention and an imposed regime on the Libyan model with a quick-fix election as a PR fig-leaf.

Bashar al-Assad's government faces a resourceful, well-armed and ruthless enemy whose Islamist supporters are receiving help from the West, says Robert Fisk.

No one who has followed the history of Afghanistan or Iraq will be surprised at the West's allies Saudi Arabia and Qatar supplying weapons to the sectarians in the Syrian opposition.