http://thediplomat.com/2014/02/responsibility-to-protect-cant-save-syria/ http://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2013/09/beyond-airstrikes-on-syria-ask-what-would-the-godfather-do/279457/
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/interview-graham-allison-9201
http://nationalinterest.org/commentary/brzezinski-the-syria-crisis-8636
http://projects.nytimes.com/live-dashboard/syria
http://thediplomat.com/2014/05/chinas-instructive-syria-policy/
http://www.cracked.com/personal-experiences-1780-we-built-their-death-squads-isiss-bizarre-origin-story_p2.html
Laws
https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/
https://www.icrc.org/customary-ihl/eng/docs/v1_cha_chapter24_rule74
Videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9uHXUe8VsBg
Leaders are readers. This may seem like a lot, but it beats digging ditches. Feel free to split up the readings amongst yourselves and make one person responsible for one reading, and for providing a summary of the reading to everyone else.
p.s. readings on ISIS / ISIL will follow, and then foreign language materials.