Tag: Iran

Beltway Confidential

Why America’s Sunni-Arab allies have endorsed Bashar Assad

Tom Rogan · December 28, 2018 6:35 pm

Free Syrian Army fighters run away after attacking a Syrian Army tank during fighting in the Izaa district in Aleppo, Syria, Friday, Sept. 7, 2012.

Obama’s ambassador to Syria: Trump’s troop withdrawal decision is ‘essentially correct’

Claude Thompson · December 28, 2018 5:06 pm

Beltway Confidential

The Associated Press contradicts its own reporting on Iran to attack Trump

Becket Adams · December 27, 2018 3:49 pm

FILE - In this May 15, 2017, file photo, television personalities Kim Kardashian West, left, and Khloe Kardashian attend the NBCUniversal Network 2017 Upfront at Radio City Music Hall in New York. The Kardashians of âKeeping up with the Kardashiansâ are in the middle of a baby boom. The latest baby bombshell came from sister Khloe Kardashian, who announced a few days before Christmas on Instagram that sheâs expecting her first with boyfriend basketball star Tristan Thompson. Kim Kardashian West, meanwhile, is awaiting her third with hubby Kanye West via surrogate.

Beltway Confidential

Kardashians picture a world without men, but that doesn’t help women

Nicole Russell · December 26, 2018 9:43 pm

Russian President Vladimir Putin during a meeting.

Putin cheers Trump’s ‘correct’ decision to leave Syria

Pete Kasperowicz · December 20, 2018 12:19 pm

Iranian president Hassan Rouhani, above, has said his country will hold talks with other agreement partners on continuing the deal.

Beltway Confidential

Iran carefully deliberating how to handle weakened, distracted Trump

Ray Takeyh · December 20, 2018 5:00 am

A Capital Gazette newspaper rack displays the day's front page, Friday, June 29, 2018, in Annapolis, Md. A man armed with smoke grenades and a shotgun attacked journalists in the newspaper's building Thursday, killing several people before police quickly stormed the building and arrested him, police and witnesses said.

US ranked one of the deadliest countries for journalists

Diana Stancy Correll · December 19, 2018 8:49 pm

In this July 27, 2017 file photo, a U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces fighter runs in front of a damaged building as he crosses a street on the front line, in Raqqa, Syria. Syrian activists said Friday, Dec. 14, 2018 that U.S.-backed, Kurdish-led fighters have captured the last town held by the Islamic State group, in the militants' single remaining enclave in eastern Syria.

Beltway Confidential

With or without US troops, Syria will be shattered, bankrupt, and violent

Daniel DePetris · December 19, 2018 8:03 pm

A Syrian soldier stands guard inside a destroyed apartment in the Palestinian refugee camp of Yarmouk in the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Saturday, Oct. 6, 2018. Bulldozers and trucks are working to clear tons of rubble from the main streets. The camp, once home to the largest concentration of Palestinians outside the territories housing nearly 160,000 people, has been gutted by years of war.

Beltway Confidential

Trump, Syria, and a ludicrous holiday gift to America’s enemies

Tom Rogan · December 19, 2018 5:08 pm

Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks at a press conference during a U.S. chamber of commerce's U.S. Iraq business initiative business mission to Iraq, in Baghdad, Iraq.

Energy and Environment

Iran beats Rick Perry to the punch in Iraq

John Siciliano · December 13, 2018 8:52 pm

Energy Secretary Rick Perry speaks during an interview.

Energy and Environment

Rick Perry struggles to convince Iraq to cut ties with Iran

John Siciliano · December 12, 2018 10:53 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media conference.

Pompeo: UN can’t ‘reward’ Iran by lifting arms embargo

Joel Gehrke · December 12, 2018 6:06 pm