Tag: Syria

"I don't think he should have ever made the threat in the first place," Gates said. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

National Security

Gates criticizes Obama’s Syria red line

Nicole Duran · May 15, 2016 4:34 pm

Lack of a no-fly zone is "reason that our families are refugees and that Syrians are being killed every day." (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti, File)

National Security

Syrian-Americans plead with Rhodes for no-fly zone

Nicole Duran · May 13, 2016 9:49 pm

The judge in Junead Khan’s case mandated that he has to serve a minimum of 12 years. (AP Photo)

British extremist gets life sentence for planning U.S. military executions

Kelly Cohen · May 13, 2016 7:18 pm

Trump optimistic he and Ryan can unite on immigration

Trump optimistic he and Ryan can unite on immigration

Anna Giaritelli · May 12, 2016 4:34 am

After terror attacks in San Bernardino, Calif. and Belgium, public opinion has shifted against resettling refugees in the United States (AP Photo/Julio Cortez)

Obama far behind goal of taking in 10,000 Syrian refugees

Susan Crabtree · May 12, 2016 4:01 am

Human Rights Watch alleged Turkish guards have regularly used excessive force when dealing with asylum seekers and smugglers. (AP Photo)

Report: Turkish border guards killed 5 Syrian refugees

Anna Giaritelli · May 11, 2016 9:59 pm

State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said Wednesday that the U.S. doesn't support Russia's latest effort. (Screen shot)

National Security

U.S., Russia split over sanctioning Syrian rebel groups

Pete Kasperowicz · May 11, 2016 7:17 pm

The U.S. and Russia released a statement Monday that said both major powers agree to a permanent cessation of violence in Syria, and said they "demand" that the violence end. (AP Photo)

National Security

State Dept. indicates Syria peace deal still a work in progress

Pete Kasperowicz · May 10, 2016 9:03 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said Friday that the U.S. military has held people accountable and learned its lesson from the investigation into a bombing of a Doctors Without Borders hospital in Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

National Security

McCain to White House: Stop the Iran ‘spin campaign’

Jacqueline Klimas · May 9, 2016 4:29 pm

National Security

Three Spanish journalists kidnapped in Syria freed

Dan Friedman · May 7, 2016 10:50 pm

The State Department is refusing to answer questions about the Syrian ceasefire it claims to have negotiated with Russia, which U.S. officials have said extends the already tenuous truce to Aleppo. (Qasion News Agency via AP, File)

Is there a ceasefire deal in Syria? State won’t answer

Pete Kasperowicz · May 7, 2016 4:01 am

The Obama administration says the new ceasefire detail started on Wednesday and is open-ended, but the Syrian government said it started Thursday and will only last 48 hours. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

National Security

State Department: Ask Syria for details of ceasefire

Pete Kasperowicz · May 5, 2016 7:33 pm