Tag: Syria

The campaign coincides with the removal of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon from the NSC. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

Anti-Defamation League: Alt-right pushing anti-Semitic campaign against Jared Kushner

Caitlin Yilek · April 10, 2017 8:17 pm

ib province, Syria. A senior U.S. official says the U.S. has concluded that Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week. (Edlib Media Center, via AP)

National Security

Senior US official: Russia knew about Syria chemical attack in advance

Associated Press · April 10, 2017 7:16 pm

"Their ability to operate successfully out of that airbase is gone," according to Spicer. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

National Security

Spicer: Assad’s airbase destroyed despite Syria ‘PR stunt’

Joel Gehrke · April 10, 2017 6:53 pm

Last week's cruise missile strike took out 20 percent of Syria's operational military aircraft, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said in a statement. (DigitalGlobe/U.S. Department of Defense via AP)

National Security

Mattis: Syria ‘ill-advised’ to use chemical weapons ever again

David Brown · April 10, 2017 6:33 pm

Various military spokespeople refused to confirm or deny the link was still active. (AP Photo/Pavel Golovkin, pool)

National Security

US mum on whether Russia’s still talking over the Syria hotline

Jamie McIntyre · April 10, 2017 6:25 pm

Trump ordered a missile strike against a government-controlled airfield last week after Assad used it to launch a chemical attack on a civilian neighborhood. (Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via AP)

National Security

White House to ‘hold open’ options for future military action in Syria

Sarah Bedford · April 10, 2017 6:18 pm

Believe It or Not, Syria Could Be In Even Worse Shape

Stephen F. Hayes · April 10, 2017 6:18 pm

U.S. special operations forces, whose role is to advise and assist partner forces in Syria, were in the thick of combat Saturday when Islamic State launched a coordinated attack on a military base where they were located, Pentagon officials said. (Militant Photo via AP)

National Security

US special ops troops aid Syrian opposition forces in fierce firefight with ISIS

Jamie McIntyre · April 10, 2017 5:17 pm

Tillerson's Moscow trip has been one of the most-anticipated foreign policy events of the young Trump administration. (AP)

National Security

Putin spokesman: ‘There is no meeting with Tillerson’

Joel Gehrke · April 10, 2017 5:00 pm

Are Syria’s Chemical Weapons Iraq’s Missing WMD? Obama’s Director of Intelligence Thought So.

Mark Hemingway · April 10, 2017 3:45 pm

"The Obama administration had a tendency to oversell what was accomplished, perhaps because Obama received so much criticism for not following through on an attack if Syria crossed what Obama had called 'a red line,'" the Post's Glenn Kessler wrote. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)

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Susan Rice hit with four out of four Pinocchios by Washington Post for Syria comments

Emily Jashinsky · April 10, 2017 3:22 pm

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned of U.S. retaliation against war criminals while visiting a memorial to Italian victims of the Nazis. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File

National Security

Rex Tillerson, at Nazi victims memorial, issues apparent warning to Bashar Assad

Joel Gehrke · April 10, 2017 2:56 pm