Michael Petrou

Your party pioneered the notion of ’responsibility to protect’. Ending the air war against Islamic State would violate it.

Come-from-behind conservative wins in the U.K. and Israel suggest it would be unwise to count Harper out

Mohamed Fahmy, now released from Egyptian prison, has said Canadian government did not do enough to free him

Two British MP’s propose a plan for Syria, offering at least some evidence of moral leadership that’s lacking elsewhere

Why the Conservative government’s policy on whom it would prefer to admit as a refugee is so problematic

Western governments are struggling with how to counter a sophisticated, entertaining and popular Kremlin-backed media

By entering the Syrian civil war, Russia is asserting itself as a new power in the Middle East—at America’s expense. And everything will be worse for it.

New Brunswick NDP leader’s proposal for a bigger Canadian role in Syria reflects a division running through the party over how to achieve peace

None of the leaders really pressed each other on the Syrian war. Doing so might have exposed difficult questions for all of them.

Michael Petrou on the big questions for tonight’s debate on foreign policy