Tag: Syria

Army Col. Chris Garver told Pentagon reporters that captured documents are providing an intelligence bonanza. (AP Photo)

National Security

‘Absolutely the best’: U.S. mining Islamic State intel

Jamie McIntyre · July 22, 2016 3:11 pm

Word from the Ashes

Kip Eideberg · July 22, 2016 2:05 pm

The liberation of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, an Islamic State stronghold, is still months away. (AP Photo)

National Security

Liberation of Mosul months away, says Pentagon chief

Jamie McIntyre · July 20, 2016 8:33 pm

Defense Secretary Ash Carter summoned the ministers to Joint Base Andrews in the Maryland suburbs to press for "accelerants" to finish off the Islamic State. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

National Security

Anti-ISIS playbook working, Carter tells defense ministers

Jamie McIntyre · July 20, 2016 3:15 pm

"What we're discussing with the Russians is the possibility, which still only remains a possibility, that they will begin to do, in fact, what they said they were going to do when they first intervened in Syria," Carter said. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

National Security

Carter: U.S.-Russian airstrikes in Syria ‘not in the cards’

Jamie McIntyre · July 20, 2016 2:31 pm

Among the 56 dead are 11 children. Dozens more people were wounded, Reuters reported. (ARAB 24 via AP)

National Security

Report: Coalition airstrike kills 56 civilians in Islamic State-held Syrian city

Kelly Cohen · July 19, 2016 1:43 pm

Duncan then called on President Obama to "halt the Syrian refugee resettlement program." (AP Photo/Rainier Ehrhardt, File)

GOP lawmaker calls for Syrian refugee ban, deportations

Kelly Cohen · July 15, 2016 8:48 pm

The DOJ said the men expressed their support of the Islamic State and violent jihad openly. (AP Photo/Joshua Paul)

National Security

Va. man sentenced for attempting to join ISIS

Diana Stancy Correll · July 15, 2016 8:17 pm

NBC Gives Assad a Platform to ‘Explain’ His Reign of Terror

Lee Smith · July 15, 2016 4:15 pm

"They're not serious. So I cannot say I welcome the unseriousness and to be in Syria illegally," Bashar Assad said. (AP Photo)

National Security

Syria’s Assad: Obama ‘not serious’ about fighting ISIS

Pete Kasperowicz · July 14, 2016 9:22 pm

The Pentagon is not confirming Omar al-Shishani's death, even though the Islamic State says Omarr "was martyred." (AP Photo/militant social media account via AP video)

National Security

U.S. thinks it killed ISIS ‘minister of war’ on second try

Jamie McIntyre · July 14, 2016 8:35 pm

State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said the plan fits in with what the U.S. has wanted all along, which is pushing Russia to "assert its influence on the Syrian regime." (Vadim Grishankin/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service via AP)

State insists: Military pact with Russia is not a strategy shift

Pete Kasperowicz · July 14, 2016 7:31 pm