Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Mother Jones

    Friends, Foes, and Frenemies

    Apr 12, 2019 4 minutes

    SYRIA’S CIVIL WAR doesn’t have two clearly defined sides. Hundreds of opposition groups have taken up arms against the Assad government—and sometimes each other. The conflict has also become a proxy war for countries including the United States, Russia, Iran, and Turkey. Not to mention the Kurds, Hezbollah, and ISIS. Here are the main players you need to know:

    SYRIAN GOVERNMENT

    • PRIMARY GOALS: Survive, retake Syria
    • MAIN ALLIES: Russia, Iran
    • MAIN ENEMIES: FSA, ISIS, Nusra, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar

    President Bashar al-Assad’s regime has used everything from torture to chemical weapons to fend off the rebellion sparked in 2011. It has also gotten

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from Mother Jones

    Mother Jones4 min readIntelligence (AI) & Semantics
    Chatbot Quacks
    NOT LONG AGO, I noticed a new term trending in social media wellness circles: “certified hormone specialist.” I could have investigated it the old-fashioned way: googling, calling up an expert or two, digging into the scientific literature. I’m accus
    Mother Jones6 min readAmerican Government
    Party Crashers
    EVEN BEFORE THE last shots of the Revolutionary War were fired, John Adams wrote a friend to warn, “There is nothing I dread so much as a division of the Republic into two great parties.” Alas, political scientists will tell you the winner-takes-all
    Mother Jones14 min read
    Unnatural Selection
    THERE’S SOMETHING UNSETTLING about the Venus flytrap. When it eats, it behaves more like an animal than a plant, ensnaring unsuspecting insects in its fragrant snapping trap in as little as a third of a second. And while one can understand, rationall

    Related Books & Audiobooks