Tag: Syria

President Donald Trump speaks with members of the armed forces via video conference at his private club, Mar-a-Lago, on Thanksgiving, Thursday, Nov. 23, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Beltway Confidential

In defense of Trump’s Thanksgiving address

Tom Rogan · November 24, 2017 3:56 pm

Until the axis is ready to transfer real power to those Syrians it has brutally oppressed, the U.S. should not dance to Putin's diplomatic waltz. (Mikhail Klimentyev, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Russia-Turkey-Iran-Assad axis want to steal Syria’s future. The US must obstruct them

Tom Rogan · November 22, 2017 4:30 pm

President Trump and Russia's President Vladimir Putin met briefly during a trade summit in Vietnam earlier this month. On Tuesday they talked for more than an hour about the need "to peacefully resolve the Syrian civil war, end the humanitarian crisis, allow displaced Syrians to return home, and ensure the stability of a unified Syria free of malign intervention and terrorist safe havens."

What Trump and Putin talked about for an hour

Sarah Bedford · November 21, 2017 8:29 pm

A White House official confirmed to the Washington Examiner that the two will speak by phone, after Syrian President Bashar Assad meets with Putin face to face. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump, Vladimir Putin to discuss Syria conflict in Tuesday call

Sarah Bedford · November 21, 2017 4:08 pm

At an event at University of California, Irvine, on Thursday, Lauren Southern, a Canadian, right-wing YouTuber, recounted one of her trips overseas which opened her eyes to the human trafficking element that's a part of the crisis. (screenshot)

Lauren Southern’s UC Irvine speech debunks myths about the migrant crisis

Ryan Foley · November 21, 2017 2:00 pm

When it comes to Assad's chemical atrocities, Putin must not get a pass. (Alexei Druzhinin, RIA-Novosti, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP, File)

Beltway Confidential

Russia is trying to hide Syrian chemical weapons attacks — don’t let them

Tom Rogan · November 20, 2017 3:36 pm

Ultimately, the U.S. ground presence in Syria forces President Bashar Assad and his allies to recognize that they cannot, by themselves, decide what happens next. By staking an American flag in the ground, the U.S. lends credibility and power to those whom Assad would otherwise turn into terrorists. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Obama’s Iraq blunder nurtured ISIS; Trump’s Syria policy might prevent ISIS 2.0

Washington Examiner · November 19, 2017 5:01 am

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov (pictured above) attacked U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley following a particularly contentious U.N. Security Council meeting Thursday, which saw the Russian government veto an American-led effort to reauthorize a panel investigating chemical weapons attacks in Syria. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn)

Sergey Lavrov accuses Nikki Haley of ‘fake diplomacy’

Joel Gehrke · November 17, 2017 7:59 pm

For any foreign policy to be successful, the legislative branch must play a vital role, and the House has been leading the way. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya)

Rep. Michael McCaul: Reclaiming the mantle of leadership on the world stage

Rep. Michael McCaul · November 17, 2017 7:51 pm

Predicting the Failure of ISIS

Thomas Joscelyn · November 17, 2017 8:00 am

"He's not going to get into the back and forth with a world leader that he needs to work with," Sanders said. (AP Photo/Hau Dinh)

National Security

White House: Trump avoiding ‘back and forth argument with Vladimir Putin’

Sarah Bedford · November 16, 2017 9:08 pm

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson speaks during a joint press conference with Myanmar Foreign Minister Aung San Suu Kyi at the Foreign Ministry office in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017. Tillerson said Wednesday that his country was deeply concerned by "credible reports" of atrocities committed by Myanmar's security forces and called for an independent investigation into a humanitarian crisis that has seen hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya flee to Bangladesh. (AP Photo/Aung Shine Oo)

Beltway Confidential

Visiting Myanmar, Rex Tillerson is right to stand up for the Rohingya

Tom Rogan · November 15, 2017 5:51 pm