Tag: Syria

Over the past three weeks, Yusuf Demir, an Islamic State media official, Omer Demir, an external operations coordinator, Abu Yazin, an senior leader and a weapons facilitator, and Abdellah Hajjiaou, an external operations plotter, were killed by airstrikes against ISIS. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Airstrikes kill four senior ISIS leaders

Diana Stancy Correll · November 14, 2017 10:35 pm

"I would say the Russian Ministry of Defense statements are about as accurate as their air campaign," Col. Ryan Dillon, spokesman for Operation Inherent Resolve, told reporters on Tuesday. "And I think that is a reason for them to start coming out with their latest barrage of lies." (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

US military spokesman zings Russia: Their statements are ‘as accurate as their air campaign’

David Brown · November 14, 2017 8:27 pm

The Turkish president is frustrated with the United States and Russia for working with the Syrian Kurds. (Yasin Bulbul/Pool Photo via AP)

National Security

Turkey’s Erdogan: US, Russia should leave Syria

Joel Gehrke · November 13, 2017 11:08 pm

What ethical law arguments can students learn from someone who defended a regime that intentionally attacked civilians on a daily basis? (UN Watch/YouTube)

Red Alert Politics

Former Assad representative now law professor at Rutgers

Nicholas Morse · November 13, 2017 7:19 pm

"There's nothing 'America First' about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community," McCain said, knocking Trump's foreign policy plan. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

John McCain: Trump ‘taking the word of a KGB colonel’ over US intelligence

Daniel Chaitin · November 11, 2017 11:23 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, center right, and Russia's President Vladimir Putin, center left, talk during the family photo session at the APEC Summit in Danang, Saturday, Nov. 11, 2017. Trump and Putin chatted Saturday as they strolled to a brief photo op at the Intercontinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort in Danang, Vietnam. (Jorge Silva/Pool Photo via AP)

Trump, Putin ‘agreed that there is no military solution to the conflict in Syria’

Eddie Scarry · November 11, 2017 3:48 pm

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John McCain hits Trump for no mention of human rights in Vietnam

Eddie Scarry · November 11, 2017 3:03 pm

"Rutgers will not defend the content of every opinion expressed by every member of our academic community, but the University will defend their rights to academic freedom and to speak freely," the school insisted. (Vadim Savitsky/ Russian Defense Ministry Press Service pool photo via AP)

Beltway Confidential

Rutgers defends political science professor who worked as spokesperson for Assad regime

Emily Jashinsky · November 10, 2017 10:02 pm

Trump Tweeted That We Are Hitting ISIS ‘Much Harder.’ Is That True?

Jeryl Bier · November 10, 2017 4:37 pm

On Oct. 22, Iran Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claimed that the U.S. is stealing Iraq from its people. The next day, Zarif claimed that U.S. policy is driven by the arms trade and Iran's policy by the pursuit of mutual understanding. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

Beltway Confidential

Iran’s foreign minister is a Twitter troll

Tom Rogan · November 9, 2017 4:14 pm

On Wednesday, members from the House and the Senate struck an agreement on a bill that proposes a major hike in defense spending and a raft of Pentagon reforms. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Here’s a look at what did (and didn’t) make it into the $700 billion defense policy bill

Travis J. Tritten · November 8, 2017 10:38 pm

British MP Priti Patel leaves 10 Downing Street in London, Wednesday, Nov. 8, 2017. It is announced Wednesday that Patel has resigned from her position as International Development Secretary following her meeting with Prime Minister Theresa May. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Beltway Confidential

Anti-Israel sentiment just forced a British government minister to resign

Tom Rogan · November 8, 2017 7:41 pm