Tag: Syria

A soldier looks through the scope of his rifle as he guards a engineer road construction project near the Mas'um Ghar base in the Kandahar Province of Afghanistan in this Wednesday Nov. 22, 2006 photo. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder)

National Security

With Obama going to war, Dems are suddenly hawks

Susan Ferrechio · September 15, 2014 9:00 am

Nuts!

The Scrapbook · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

They Have a Strategy

Thomas Joscelyn · September 15, 2014 4:00 am

This photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center (AMC), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows Free Syrian Army fighters running at one of the front lines in the town of Sheikh Najjar, in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday June 10, 2014. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Obama aide: ‘Doctors and pharmacists’ now ready to fight

Luke Rosiak · September 14, 2014 6:04 pm

Kerry Flip-Flops On ‘War’

Kerry Flip-Flops On ‘War’

Daniel Halper · September 14, 2014 2:42 pm

Democratic and Republican lawmakers this week will likely form a bipartisan coalition to pass President Obama's request to arm and train Syrian rebels.ÃÂ (Spencer Platt/Getty images)

National Security

Arming Syrian rebels bridges partisan divide

Susan Ferrechio · September 14, 2014 9:00 am

The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria released Saturday a video showing showing another reported beheading of David Haines. (Screengrab)

National Security

Islamic State releases another beheading video

Justin Green · September 13, 2014 11:26 pm

Obama wants to wage this non-war war against a non-state state without congressional authority or debate. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty images)

Obama’s unnecessary, unpromising war

Steve Chapman · September 13, 2014 8:02 pm

It is now President Obama's stated intention to pursue the Islamic State's forces wherever they are, rather than his previous policy of using moderate force only in Iraq and only to protect American facilities and personnel.ÃÂ (AP Photo/Saul Loeb, Pool)

Support Obama’s new Islamic State plan

Lawrence Kudlow · September 13, 2014 7:09 pm

FILE - In this Oct. 29, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama makes a statement to reporters about the suspicious packages found on U.S. bound planes in the James Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House in Washington. While the Islamic State group is getting the most attention these days, another band of extremists in Syria, a mix of hardened Jihadists from Afghanistan, Yemen, Syria and Europe, poses a more direct and imminent threat to the U.S. homeland, working with Yemeni bomb-makers to target U.S. aviation, American officials say. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

AP Enterprise: al-Qaida’s Syrian cell alarms US

KEN DILANIANEILEEN SULLIVAN · September 13, 2014 5:57 pm

Family of Syria hostage issues plea to captors

National Security

Family of Syria hostage issues plea to captors

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2014 2:43 pm

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks during a press conference in Ankara, Turkey, Friday, Sept. 12, 2014. Kerry is in the region to speak with leaders about strategies to address the threat from the Islamic State, a militant extremist group. John Kerry said that the US would provide an additional $500 million in humanitarian aid to victims of the war in Syria, bringing total American assistance to $2.9 billion since the start of the conflict in 2011. (AP Photo/Brendan Smialowski, Pool)

Strikes in Iraq, Syria expected under new war plan

Robert Burns · September 13, 2014 8:48 am