Tag: Airstrikes

In this Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2014 photo provided by the U.S Air Force, an F-22A Raptor taxis in the U.S. Central Command area of responsibility prior to strike operations in Syria. U.S. coalition-led warplanes struck Islamic State group militants near the northern Syrian town of Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab, near the Turkish border for the first time Saturday, Sept. 27, 2014, activists and a Kurdish official said. The coalition, which began its aerial campaign against Islamic State fighters in Syria early Tuesday, aims to roll back and ultimately crush the extremist group, which has created a proto-state spanning the Syria-Iraq border. (AP Photo/U.S. Air Force, Russ Scalf)

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US-led planes strike fighters attacking Syria town

Bassem Mroue · September 27, 2014 5:54 pm

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U.S.-led coalition launches strikes at Islamic State forces besieging Syrian town

Justin Green · September 27, 2014 4:51 pm

This Friday, Sept. 19, 2014 photo, provided by Edlib News Network (ENN), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows an anti-Syrian government protester holding a placard during a demonstration against the U.S.-led coalition airtstrikes, at the village of Kfar Derian, Idlib province, northern Syria. The U.S. is struggling to counter anger among the Syrian opposition, where many believe that the air campaign against extremists in the country is only helping President Bashar Assad and that Washington is coordinating with Damascus, despite American insistence it backs the rebel cause. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

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US struggles to blunt Syria rebel anger at strikes

Bassem Mroue · September 27, 2014 3:28 pm

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UK warplanes on 1st mission since strikes approved

Washington Examiner · September 27, 2014 12:43 pm

On July 25, Rice sent a letter to House Speaker Boehner, asking him to repeal the 2002 AUMF. (AP Photo)

Top Republicans to Susan Rice: Don’t limit options in military authorization request

Susan Ferrechio · September 27, 2014 12:03 am

Josh Earnest speaks during his daily briefing. (Getty File Photo/Mark Wilson)

WH insists al Qaeda core is ‘decimated’

Susan Crabtree · September 26, 2014 8:50 pm

Rep. Doug Lamborn sent out a mailing boasting of his accomplishments and attacking President Obama just before a tight election, according to the Colorado Springs Gazette. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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Lamborn: Generals should resign with ‘glory’

Kelly Cohen · September 26, 2014 8:19 pm

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US-led strikes hit IS group as coalition grows

Ryan Lucas · September 26, 2014 7:52 pm

U.S. soldier on guard over 7th corps enemy prisoners of war holding area, February 1991, in central Saudi Arabia during Operation Desert Storm. (AP Photo/Jordan)

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What’s a war without a code name?

Charles Hoskinson · September 26, 2014 5:58 pm

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British approve airstrikes in Iraq

Susan Crabtree · September 26, 2014 5:09 pm

As a way of creating leverage for this week's U.N. climate summit, Obama signed an executive order that will require all government agencies to waste millions factoring "climate-resilience considerations systematically into the U.S. government's international development work and to promote a similar approach with multilateral entities." (AP Photo)

Obama goes rogue

David Harsanyi · September 26, 2014 4:03 pm

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, accompanied by Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks with reporters outside the White House in Washington, Sept. 2, 2013. The two senior Republicans say the Obama administration's strategy to defeat terrorism in Syria by attacking the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria is only half-right, saying it must also simultaneously target the country's ruling Assad regime.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Senators: U.S.-backed Syrian rebels also must target Assad

Sean Lengell · September 25, 2014 9:13 pm