Tag: Syria

Administration on Kobani: Win Some; Lose Some

Geoffrey Norman · October 8, 2014 3:11 pm

Airstrikes give Kurdish fighters breathing room in Syria

Airstrikes give Kurdish fighters breathing room in Syria

Charles Hoskinson · October 8, 2014 2:58 pm

Immigrants from various countries queue outside Greece's Central Asylum Service in Athens on Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2014. The United Nations refugee agency is calling on the European Union to overhaul its policy toward Syrian refugees, warning the number of fatal accidents at sea could rise further as winter approaches. Greek authorities says they expect a three-fold increase in the number of would-be immigrants and asylum seekers apprehended this year, compared with 2013, with most now coming from Syria. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)

UN: EU should overhaul policy on Syrian refugees

Derek Gatopoulos · October 8, 2014 2:27 pm

Many of the forces on which the success of Obama's strategy depend see Assad, not the Islamic State, as the principal enemy. (AP FIle Photo/Vahid Salemi)

Fatal flaw in Obama ISIS strategy?

Charles Hoskinson · October 8, 2014 9:00 am

"He's sending our teachers to Texas, our filmmakers to Georgia, and our medical dollars to 28 other states," Hagan said of Tillis. (AP/Gerry Broome)

Tillis hit on local issues during debate

Rebecca Berg · October 8, 2014 1:06 am

VIDEO: Leon Panetta says Obama’s ISIS response is two years too late

VIDEO: Leon Panetta says Obama’s ISIS response is two years too late

Ed Sykes · October 7, 2014 3:31 pm

U.S. bombs helps Kurds hold off ISIS

National Security

U.S. bombs helps Kurds hold off ISIS

Charles Hoskinson · October 7, 2014 1:40 pm

Kobani, Syria ‘About to Fall’ to Islamic State

Kobani, Syria ‘About to Fall’ to Islamic State

Geoffrey Norman · October 7, 2014 1:11 pm

In this image shot with an extreme telephoto lens and through haze from the outskirts of Suruc at the Turkey-Syria border, militants with the Islamic State group are seen after placing their group's flag on a hilltop at the eastern side of the town of Kobani, Syria, where fighting had been intensified between Syrian Kurds and the militants of Islamic State group, Monday, Oct. 6, 2014. Kobani, also known as Ayn Arab and its surrounding areas have been under attack since mid-September, with militants capturing dozens of nearby Kurdish villages. The flag is indicating that the jihadists may have regrouped and broken through the Kurdish lines. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Islamic State wages assault on Syrian border town

RYAN LUCASLEFTERIS PITARAKIS · October 7, 2014 12:35 am

This image posted on a militant website June 14, 2014, which has been verified appears to show militants from the al-Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) leading away captured Iraqi soldiers dressed in plain clothes after taking over a base in Tikrit, Iraq. AP Photo

Washington Secrets

New terror warning: ISIS training Americans to attack U.S., Europe

Paul Bedard · October 6, 2014 7:34 pm

Author Naomi Wolf, center, asks if the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria beheading videos are staged? (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)

Beltway Confidential

Naomi Wolf asks if the Islamic State beheading videos are staged?

Becket Adams · October 6, 2014 2:49 pm

Panetta: Thirty Year War

Panetta: Thirty Year War

Geoffrey Norman · October 6, 2014 1:51 pm