Tag: Syria

Boehner: ‘I Support the Airstrike Launched By the President’

Boehner: ‘I Support the Airstrike Launched By the President’

Daniel Halper · September 23, 2014 2:00 pm

Sen. Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., the ranking member of the Intelligence Committee, commended the five Arab countries who have joined in on the airstrikes while others offered limited praise while continuing to slam President Obama for failing to take action sooner. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Republicans offer tepid praise for airstrikes in Syria

Susan Crabtree · September 23, 2014 1:50 pm

Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin issued a statement Tuesday supporting Obama's decision launch airstrikes in Syria. (AP Photo)

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Top Senate Democrat praises Syrian airstrike coalition

Susan Ferrechio · September 23, 2014 1:46 pm

Buck McKeon, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, offered his support behind the airstrikes in Syria Monday. (AP Photo)

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McKeon backs Syria airstrikes

Kelly Cohen · September 23, 2014 11:52 am

Video: Navy Launches Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria

Video: Navy Launches Airstrikes on ISIS in Syria

Daniel Halper · September 23, 2014 10:31 am

U.S. begins airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria

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U.S. begins airstrikes against Islamic State in Syria

Justin Green · September 23, 2014 1:57 am

FILE - In this July 29, 2014, file photo, Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Sen. Robert Menendez, left, D-N.J., talks with ranking member Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., on Capitol Hill in Washington. In the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Menendez and Corker say they'll draft a bill in the lame-duck session repealing what they call outdated authorizations for the use of force and replace them with a new one. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)

Syria vote isn’t last word from Congress on war

BRADLEY KLAPPERDONNA CASSATA · September 22, 2014 4:20 pm

Israeli soldiers walk next to an armoured bulldozer in an army deployment training area in the Israeli-annexed Golan Heights near the border with Syria on August 28, 2013. (MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty images)

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Congress ducks military authorization vote, for now

Susan Ferrechio · September 22, 2014 9:00 am

At the Kurdistan Front

Jonathan Spyer · September 22, 2014 4:00 am

Unsavory Bedfellows

Lee Smith · September 22, 2014 4:00 am

Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said that Congress must reconvene after the November election to debate a measure authorizing President Obama to use military force in the Middle East. (AP Photo/Molly Riley, File)

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Feinstein: Congress must debate military force against Islamic State

Susan Ferrechio · September 21, 2014 5:22 pm

A Syrian Kurdish refugee woman at the border in Suruc, Turkey, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2014. Several thousand Syrians, most of them Kurds, crossed into Turkey on Friday to find refuge from Islamic State militants who have barreled through dozens of Kurdish villages in northern Syria in the past 48 hours. (AP Photo)

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Kurdish fighters head to Syria to face militants

DIAA HADIDSUZAN FRASER · September 21, 2014 12:19 am