Tag: Syria

House Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., speaks at her weekly press conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 10th, 2014. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

National Security

Nancy Pelosi: U.S. shouldn’t work with Iran

Sean Lengell · June 19, 2014 5:52 pm

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq, Monday. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

Slaughter in Iraq — George W. Bush’s fault?

Larry Elder · June 19, 2014 2:52 pm

President George H.W. Bush gestures during a news conference at the White House briefing room in Washington, Tuesday, April 17, 1991. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander)

No intervention in Iraqi civil war without congressional authorization

Terence Jeffrey · June 18, 2014 2:52 pm

Shiite tribal fighters carry a poster of Shiite spiritual leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, as they raise their weapons chanting slogans against the al-Qaida-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. (AP/Nabil Al-Jurani)

The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant’s media foray

Austin Bay · June 18, 2014 2:41 pm

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 smoke rising from a Syrian government forces airstrike in Aleppo, Syria, Tuesday, June 17, 2014. A car bomb exploded in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq on Tuesday, killing many people, including a local rebel commander, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Activists: Syrian strikes target refugees, kill 7

Washington Examiner · June 18, 2014 9:14 am

Kerry: Terrorists in Syria, Iraq ‘Thinking About How They Can Hurt People… in the United States’

Kerry: Terrorists in Syria, Iraq ‘Thinking About How They Can Hurt People… in the United States’

Jeryl Bier · June 17, 2014 6:18 pm

Iraqi federal policemen watch as Shiite tribal fighters deploy with their weapons in the northwest Baghdad's Shula neighborhood, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

UN panel: Syria, Iraq edging into regional war

John Heilprin · June 17, 2014 2:38 pm

Iraqi army soldiers stand guard at Tahrir Square in Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, June 16, 2014. Sunni militants captured a key northern Iraqi town along the highway to Syria early on Monday, compounding the woes of Iraq's Shiite-led government a week after it lost a vast swath of territory to the insurgents in the country's north. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Iran’s general in Iraq, militants seize key city

HAMZA HENDAWIQASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA · June 16, 2014 11:06 pm

‘The Consequences of Syria’

‘The Consequences of Syria’

Daniel Halper · June 16, 2014 7:04 pm

Shiite tribal fighters raise their weapons and chant slogans against the al Qaeda-inspired Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in the east Baghdad neighborhood of Kamaliya, Iraq, Sunday, June 15, 2014. (AP Photo)

Obama follows polls in foreign policy but public turns against him

Michael Barone · June 15, 2014 9:00 pm

Zogby Report Card: 2008’s ‘audacity’ and ‘hope’ crash land

Zogby Report Card: 2008’s ‘audacity’ and ‘hope’ crash land

Paul Bedard · June 14, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - This undated file image posted on a militant website on Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2014 shows fighters from the al-Qaida-linked Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) marching in Raqqa, Syria. The Islamic State was originally al-Qaida's branch in Iraq, but it used Syria's civil war to vault into something more powerful. It defied orders from al-Qaida's central command and expanded its operations into Syria, ostensibly to fight to topple Assad. But it has turned mainly to conquering territory for itself, often battling other rebels who stand in the way. (AP Photo/Militant Website, File)

Activist group: Jihadists besiege Syrian city

Bassem Mroue · June 13, 2014 7:39 pm