Tag: Syria

Group of 7 leaders from right clockwise, U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Francois Hollande, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and British Prime Minister David Cameron a G-7 summit at the EU Council building in Brussels on Thursday, June 5, 2014. (AP Photo)

G-7 to huddle on Russia sanctions

Nicole Duran · June 5, 2015 4:01 am

Pope Francis and Russian President Vladimir Putin shake hands during a meeting at the Vatican, Nov. 25, 2013. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Mikhail Klimentyev, Presidential Press Service)

Pope Francis and Vladimir Putin to meet June 10

Kelly Cohen · June 4, 2015 11:43 am

In this image taken Friday, May 29, 2015, Iraqi anti-terrorism forces battle with Islamic State group extremists as they defend their base against Islamic State group extremist attack outside Fallujah. (AP Photo)Â

Obama administration’s body count claim backfires

Susan Crabtree · June 3, 2015 11:07 pm

An explosion rocks the Syrian city of Kobani during an airstrike by the US-led coalition during fighting between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, as seen from the outskirts of Suruc, on the Turkey-Syria border, October 18, 2014. (Photo by Gokhan Sahin/Getty Images)

White House won’t confirm ISIS body count

Nicole Duran · June 3, 2015 7:28 pm

The Pentagon would not confirm U.S. State Department allegations that Syrian President Bashar Assad is directly aiding the Islamic State through targeted airstrikes by his government forces. (AP Photo)

National Security

State: Syria’s Assad directly supporting ISIS

Tara Copp · June 2, 2015 7:44 pm

Palmyra is one of a handful of places on the planet whose presence can't easily be conveyed through a camera lens. (AP Chart)

Islamic State is destroying the common patrimony of the human race

Dan Hannan · June 1, 2015 9:00 am

The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said military helicopters dropped the barrel bombs on the rebel-held Shaar neighborhood of the city of Aleppo and on a market in the town of al-Bab, which is held by Islamic State militants. (AP Photo)

National Security

Syria aflame: Barrel bombs kill at least 71

Kelly Cohen · May 30, 2015 10:34 pm

Obama's "disengagement" from the tumultuous Middle East, symbolized by his withdrawal of all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, has created a "vacuum" that's "been filled by bad actors, including terrorist extremists," Rubio wrote in a Washington Post op-ed Friday night. (Getty Image)

Marco Rubio: Obama has made Middle East ‘more dangerous and unstable’

Kelly Cohen · May 30, 2015 3:52 pm

Jindal may become one of Paul's rivals for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination. (AP Photo)

Jindal: Rand Paul ‘unsuited to be commander in chief’

Ariel Cohen · May 27, 2015 6:01 pm

Paul said that even though most of the country agrees with him, he is seen as out of step with the Republican party because he is "asking difficult questions." (Getty Image)

Rand Paul: ‘ISIS exists because of the hawks in’ GOP

Barbara Boland · May 27, 2015 4:21 pm

Smoke rises behind archaeological ruins in Palmyra, Syria. The video released by a media arm of the Islamic State group purportedly showed the archaeological ruins of Palmyra apparently undamaged. (Militant video via AP)

National Security

ISIS hasn’t destroyed Palmyra yet, artifacts chief says

David Brown · May 27, 2015 2:09 pm

Rand Says Republicans ‘Created’ ISIS

Michael Warren · May 27, 2015 10:52 am