Tag: Syria

Text of Obama’s Speech on Destroying ISIS

Text of Obama’s Speech on Destroying ISIS

Daniel Halper · September 11, 2014 12:02 am

FILE - In this undated file image posted by the Raqqa Media Center, a Syrian opposition group, on Monday, June 30, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group sit on a tank during a parade in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is often described as the most fearsome jihadi outfit of all: a global menace outweighing al-Qaida, with armies trembling before its advance. But while the group has been successful at seizing parts of Iraq and Syria, it is no unstoppable juggernaut. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center, File)

Islamic State group not an unstoppable juggernaut

ZEINA KARAMVIVIAN SALAMA · September 10, 2014 10:52 pm

In this image made through a window of the Oval Office, President Barack Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House in Washington, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014, ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and Islamic State group militants. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Obama to promise no ‘combat troops’ for anti-ISIS fight

Susan Crabtree · September 10, 2014 10:30 pm

"We've got to cut off the financial flows to them," said Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn. "That involves cooperation. That does not involve shooting." (Getty images/Alex Wong)

House Dems have questions for Obama

Betsy Woodruff · September 10, 2014 9:36 pm

FILE - In this undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, fighters from the Islamic State group march in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State group is often described as the most fearsome jihadi outfit of all: a global menace outweighing al-Qaida, with armies trembling before its advance. But while the group has been successful at seizing parts of Iraq and Syria, it is no unstoppable juggernaut. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

National Security

Reid calls for vote on training Syrian rebels

Andrew Taylor · September 10, 2014 8:48 pm

President Obama speaks on the phone to Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah from his desk at the White House Wednesday, ahead of his address to the nation tonight regarding Iraq and ISIS group militants. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Beltway Confidential

Even the Bush White House polled better than this

Becket Adams · September 10, 2014 8:24 pm

Kerry: No ‘Direct Combat’ for U.S. Forces in Iraq Unless ‘Something Very, Very Dramatic Changed’

Kerry: No ‘Direct Combat’ for U.S. Forces in Iraq Unless ‘Something Very, Very Dramatic Changed’

Jeryl Bier · September 10, 2014 7:33 pm

Obama Asks for Donations Before ISIS Speech

Daniel Halper · September 10, 2014 6:48 pm

Obama asks House to authorize training missions against Islamic State

National Security

Obama asks House to authorize training missions against Islamic State

Susan Ferrechio · September 10, 2014 6:21 pm

FILE - In this file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, posted on April 16, 2014, an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, children are seen receiving oxygen in Kfar Zeita, a rebel-held village in Hama province some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus. A toxic chemical, almost certainly chlorine, was used "systematically and repeatedly" as a weapon in attacks on villages in northern Syria earlier this year, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014.

Weapons watchdog: Chlorine likely used in Syria

Mike Corder · September 10, 2014 6:06 pm

National Security

VIDEO: 5 things to watch for in Obama’s ISIS address

Ed Sykes · September 10, 2014 4:38 pm

Secretary of State John Kerry arrives in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday. (AP/Brendan Smialowski)

National Security

Kerry travels to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · September 10, 2014 3:44 pm