Tag: Syria

"I think it's the lowest point I've seen, personally, in foreign policy for the United States," Corker said. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke)

Corker: Obama’s red line the ‘lowest point’ for US foreign policy

Pete Kasperowicz · December 19, 2016 5:48 pm

Russian Ambassador to Turkey Shot, Reported Dead (Updated)

Jenna Lifhits · December 19, 2016 5:45 pm

Mexican reporter Anabel Flores Salazar was murdered because of her job covering police, according to a watchdog group. Photo from El Pais International.

Washington Secrets

Mexico ‘world’s deadliest’ for reporters, 9 executed, police help

Paul Bedard · December 19, 2016 2:08 pm

A longtime Clinton confidante and Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, got into a social media scrap about the conflict in Syria on Saturday, and it all started because of a tweet from former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. (AP Photos)

National Security

Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Neera Tanden fight over Syria — thanks to David Duke

Daniel Chaitin · December 17, 2016 7:35 pm

The Russian military claims it killed Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, the leader of the Islamic State group, in an airstrike in late May, but the U.S. has not been able to confirm the claim. (AP photo)

National Security

State Dept. now offering $25M for ISIS leader

Anna Giaritelli · December 16, 2016 11:35 pm

Editorial cartoons

Editorial cartoon: Syria woe-globe

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2016 11:31 pm

Obama: Blood in Aleppo on Russia’s hands

National Security

Obama: Blood in Aleppo on Russia’s hands

Joel Gehrke · December 16, 2016 8:17 pm

Who We Are and Who He Is

Stephen F. Hayes · December 16, 2016 6:15 am

The Obama doctrine’s crushing denouement in Syria

National Security

The Obama doctrine’s crushing denouement in Syria

Washington Examiner · December 16, 2016 5:05 am

The Obama administration this week all but admitted that it's out of ideas on how to influence the outcome of Syria's civil war. (AP Photo/Sergei Chuzavkov)

National Security

After Obama’s failure, two ways forward in Syria

Pete Kasperowicz · December 16, 2016 5:01 am

Iraqi Christians pray at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, damaged by Islamic State fighters during their occupation of Qaraqosh, east of Mosul, Iraq, Saturday, Nov. 12, 2016. Qaraqosh, the biggest Christian town on the Nineveh plains in Iraq's north, fell to the Islamic State group in 2014 and was recently retaken by Iraqi government forces. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)

Beltway Confidential

Destroying the Islamic State isn’t the end: Christians and other minorities need more help

Jeff King · December 16, 2016 12:01 am

House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman says U.S. has "no plan and no leverage." (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

National Security

Ed Royce: US ‘unable to stop thousands more deaths’ in Syria

Joel Gehrke · December 15, 2016 10:09 pm