Tag: Syria

Turkey's Prime Minister Binali Yildirim arrives in Washington, late Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017. Yildirim is in the United States to meet U.S. Vice President Mike Pence for talks aimed at mending frayed ties between the two NATO allies, including over Turkish demands for the extradition U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, who is blamed for last year's failed coup, and Washington's backing of Syrian Kurdish militia, whom Turkey considers to be terrorists. (Pool via AP)

Beltway Confidential

The Trump administration is welcoming the Turkish prime minister when he deserves a cold shoulder

Michael Rubin · November 8, 2017 5:24 pm

Syria President Bashar Assad intends to double down on an already proven strategy of redirecting carbon emissions out of the atmosphere. (Pankaj Nangia/Bloomberg News)

Beltway Confidential

How Syria will fulfill its Paris climate accord obligations

Tom Rogan · November 8, 2017 5:09 pm

Here is Alan Dershowitz's response to several items against him at the Daily Californian, the student newspaper of the University of California, Berkeley. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

Beltway Confidential

Alan Dershowitz: Berkeley’s student newspaper refuses to publish my response to an anti-Semitic op-ed, so here it is

Alan Dershowitz · November 7, 2017 10:29 pm

The lessening demand for air support for Iraqi and Syrian ground troops will free up some attack planes for use over Afghanistan, where President Trump's new strategy includes new rules of engagement to provide more air support for Afghan government troops battling the Taliban. (Air Force photo)

National Security

Bombing down 60 percent over Iraq and Syria as US shifts air war to Afghanistan

Jamie McIntyre · November 7, 2017 6:37 pm

Syria announced it will join the Paris Agreement during a plenary session at the COP23 United Nations climate change talks in Bonn, Germany, that began on Monday and ends on Nov. 17. (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)

Energy and Environment

Syria joins Paris climate deal, leaving US as the only country opposed

John Siciliano · November 7, 2017 3:17 pm

On Thursday, the United Nations published its report on war crimes committed by the Islamic State in Mosul, before that city was retaken by Iraqi security forces in July. (Militant website via AP, file)

Beltway Confidential

Here are some of the horrific things ISIS did to the civilians in places it occupied

Tom Rogan · November 3, 2017 2:40 pm

President Trump said the U.S. military has hit Islamic State "much harder" after the New York City attack on Tuesday. "They will pay a big price for every attack on us!" he tweeted. (SANA via AP)

National Security

Trump: US military hit ISIS ‘much harder’ after NYC attack

Mandy Mayfield · November 3, 2017 12:58 pm

An investigation by the United Nation's international chemical weapons watchdog has concluded that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in an April attack on a Syrian town that left roughly 100 people dead. A report last week concluded Syrian President Bashar Assad was behind that attack. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

White House issues sharp rebuke of Russia over Syria chemical weapons inquiry

Diana Stancy Correll · November 2, 2017 3:23 am

It's widely believed there are perhaps twice as many U.S. troops in Syria than the Pentagon is admitting. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

National Security

General’s momentary slip underscores confusion over troop totals in Syria

Jamie McIntyre · October 31, 2017 6:51 pm

White House chief of staff John Kelly told Fox News host Laura Ingraham Monday night he was satisfied with the Trump administration's plans to lower the annual cap on refugee admissions to 45,000. Kelly said he didn't remember saying it should be any lower. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

John Kelly doesn’t remember saying US should admit between ‘zero and one’ refugees annually

Diana Stancy Correll · October 31, 2017 3:58 am

Instability and the lack of a consistent security force have prevented many Iraqi Christians from returning to their homes. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

After ISIS, the cradle of Christianity is still fraught with chaos and danger

alexander-titus, ewelina-ochab · October 30, 2017 4:01 am

Nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims have fled Myanmar's Rakhine state and arrived in Bangladesh since Aug. 25 to avoid persecution that the United Nations has called ethnic cleansing. (AP Photo/Dar Yasin)

President Trump, heed the plight of the Rohingya

Murat Guzel · October 29, 2017 4:01 am