Tag: Syria

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, right, and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis arrive on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Aug. 2, 2017, to brief the Senate Foreign Relations Committee behind closed-doors regarding the administration's perspective on the authorizations for the use of military force. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Jim Mattis and Rex Tillerson will testify as Senate war authorization debate heats up

Travis J. Tritten · October 29, 2017 4:01 am

Nathan Michael Smith, a former Army intelligence analyst, filed a suit last year claiming President Obama was illegally fighting Islamic State terrorists without congressional authorization. His case is being heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

National Security

Trump Justice Department: Wars are off limits to court review

Steven Nelson · October 27, 2017 8:34 pm

Great job beating ISIS in Syria — now let’s keep them out of Africa

Great job beating ISIS in Syria — now let’s keep them out of Africa

Washington Examiner · October 27, 2017 4:51 pm

Power tweeted out a graph of the number of people who died in Syria between 2011 and 2017 with the caption reading, "The human toll of Russia's complicity." (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

Congratulations, Samantha Power: You played yourself on Syria

Siraj Hashmi · October 27, 2017 2:34 pm

Kurdish security forces head to a town on the outskirts of Irbil, Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Beltway Confidential

US must not let Iran cut off the Kurdish controlled Iraq-Syria border

Tom Rogan · October 27, 2017 2:13 pm

Nikki Haley signaled a plan to use the report to shame Russia over their support for Bashar Assad. (AP)

Nikki Haley hails UN report blaming Assad regime for deadly sarin attack in April

Joel Gehrke · October 26, 2017 10:26 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that Syrian President Bashar Assad's future would "be decided by the Syrian people." (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

Rex Tillerson: ‘The reign of the Assad family is coming to an end’

Joel Gehrke · October 26, 2017 7:27 pm

Devin Nunes has issued similar warnings before. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

National Security

House Intelligence chairman: Trump needs a strategy for countering Iran in Syria

Joel Gehrke · October 25, 2017 6:15 pm

The fall of Raqqa, the Islamic State's capital in Syria, has sparked a debate over how much credit the Trump administration should receive for the victory. According to the Department of State, all of it. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

State Department: Obama ‘tried’ to defeat ISIS, Trump succeeded

Joel Gehrke · October 24, 2017 8:02 pm

"The United States deeply regrets that one member of this Council vetoed against this text." (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews)

National Security

Russia vetoes UN move to extend Syria chemical weapons probe

Joel Gehrke · October 24, 2017 6:49 pm

According to a Military Times poll, troops view white nationalism as a threat to national security: 30 percent of troops categorized it as a significant danger, but 27 percent said it was a greater threat than Syria. (iStock)

National Security

A quarter of troops see white nationalism in the military: Poll

Diana Stancy Correll · October 24, 2017 1:10 am

Our news habits are in transition. Fifteen years ago, we got almost all our information from a limited number of print and broadcast channels. Now, there are innumerable online TV shows and blogs and opinionated YouTubers. Some of them bring a degree of specialist knowledge to the reader that was inaccessible in the days of the old media. Some are borderline insane. We can't always tell which is which.

The real point of ‘fake news’

Dan Hannan · October 23, 2017 4:01 am