Tag: Syria

Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, left said Sunday that no strategy for decapitating the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria would be complete without attacking the extremist movement's command and control centers inside Syria. But Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, who has previously called for President Obama to bomb ISIS "back to the stone age," stopped short of advocating for U.S. military action inside of Syria, which remains ravaged by civil war. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio differ on combatting ISIS

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 8:51 pm

In this Aug. 8, 2014, file photo, Kurdish Peshmerga fighters take cover during airstrikes targeting militants of the Islamic State group near the Khazer checkpoint outside of the city of Irbil in northern Iraq. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)

Top Democrats want Obama’s ISIS strategy to address Syria

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 8:33 pm

A fighter with ISIS stands guard in front of the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party on Aug. 7, 2014, in the Christian village of Bartella, northern Iraq. (AP Photo, File)

Obama won’t ask Congress to authorize military action against ISIS

David M. Drucker · September 7, 2014 4:06 pm

Kerry’s Red Line

William Kristol · September 7, 2014 2:40 pm

A Kurdish Peshmerga fighter uses binoculars to check on ISIS positions on the outskirts of Makhmour, 186 miles north of Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. (AP Photo/ Marko Drobnjakovic)

National Security

Obama to outline ISIS plans Wednesday

Susan Crabtree · September 7, 2014 2:31 pm

In a joint op-ed with British Prime Minister David Cameron, President Obama promised that "we will not be cowed" by ISIS. "Those who want to adopt an isolationist approach misunderstand the nature of security in the 21st century. Developments in other parts of the world, particularly in Iraq and Syria, threaten our security at home," Obama and Cameron wrote. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)

Can Obama win the fight against ISIS?

Linda Chavez · September 6, 2014 8:58 pm

This image posted by the Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group, a militant extremist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows damaged cars that were burned after a Syrian government airstrike in the northeastern city of Raqqa, Syria, Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014. Syria launched a series of airstrikes targeting Raqqa on Saturday, killing dozens of people, most of whom died when one of the missiles slammed into a crowded bakery, activists said. The airstrikes smashed parts of buildings, set cars alight and crushed people under rubble. (AP Photo/Raqqa Media Center of the Islamic State group)

National Security

Syrian strikes on Islamic State stronghold kill 29

Diaa Hadid · September 6, 2014 6:48 pm

FILE - In this Sunday April 20, 2014 file photo, released French hostage Nicolas Henin arrives at the Villacoublay military airbase, outside Paris. A French journalist held hostage for months by extremists in Syria says one of his captors was a Frenchman suspected of killing four people at the Brussels Jewish Museum earlier this year. French magazine Le Point on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2014, quotes its reporter Nicolas Henin as saying he was tortured by Mehdi Nemmouche, a Frenchman who had spent time with extremists in Syria. Henin was held for a time with American journalists James Foley and Steven Sotloff, both beheaded by extremists from the Islamic State group in recent weeks. He was released in April with other French journalists who had been held since June 2013. Nemmouche is in custody since his arrest in France soon after the Brussels killing in May. The attack crystallized fears of European governments that Europeans who join radical fighters in Syria could return to stage attacks at home. (AP Photo/Jacques Brinon, file)

National Security

French ex-hostage identifies captor in Syria

SYLVIE CORBETLORI HINNANT · September 6, 2014 5:10 pm

FILE - In this Tuesday, July 22, 2014, file photo, a sign is posted at a checkpoint belonging to the Islamic State group, captured from the Iraqi Army, at the main entrance of Rawah, 175 miles (281 kilometers) northwest of Baghdad, Iraq. Arabic reads, "Islamic State, the Emirate of Anbar, City of Rawah." The U.S. and its allies are trying to hammer out a coalition to push back the Islamic State group in Iraq. But any serious attempt to destroy the militants or even seriously degrade their capabilities means targeting their infrastructure in Syria. That, however, is far more complicated. If it launches airstrikes against the group in Syria, the U.S. runs the risk of unintentionally strengthening the hand of President Bashar Assad, whose removal the West has actively sought the past three years. Uprooting the Islamic State, which has seized swaths of territory in both Syria and Iraq, would potentially open the way for the Syrian army to fill the vacuum. (AP Photo, File)

National Security

AP Analysis: US wary over hitting Syrian militants

Zeina Karam · September 6, 2014 6:01 am

GOP senator seeks new authority against militants

GOP senator seeks new authority against militants

Donna Cassata · September 5, 2014 8:15 pm

Rights groups call for release of Syrian activists

Rights groups call for release of Syrian activists

Washington Examiner · September 5, 2014 5:40 pm

President Obama speaks at a news conference at the NATO summit at Celtic Manor, Newport, Wales, Friday. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

National Security

Obama: Goal is to ‘dismantle,’ not ‘contain’ ISIS

Brian Hughes · September 5, 2014 4:29 pm