Tag: Syria

Correction: Syria story

Correction: Syria story

Washington Examiner · June 4, 2014 1:41 pm

President Obama arrives to deliver the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, May 28, in West Point, N.Y. In a broad defense of his foreign policy, the president declared that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, even after a "long season of war," but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

Poll: Obama takes a hit on foreign affairs

Brian Hughes · June 3, 2014 3:28 pm

In this Saturday, May 31, 2014, photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad hold his portraits and wave Syrian flags during a demonstration in support of his candidacy for presidential election in Sweida town, southern Syria. The country holds its first multi-candidate presidential election in nearly half a century on Tuesday, June 3, but voting will occur only in government-held territory. Hundreds of thousands of people live in areas that are either contested, held by rebels or blockaded by pro-government forces. (AP Photo/SANA)

5 things to know about Syria’s presidential vote

Zeina Karam · June 3, 2014 6:43 am

Syria tightens security ahead of presidential vote

Syria tightens security ahead of presidential vote

DIAA HADIDALBERT AJI · June 2, 2014 6:39 pm

Failures Galore

Lee Smith · June 2, 2014 4:00 am

FILE - In this hand out file photo distributed on Sunday, May 25, 2014 by the Belgian Federal Police, a surveillance camera shows a man shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels, Belgium, on Saturday, May 24, 2014. The Paris prosecutor's office said a man has been arrested Friday May 30, 2014 in the investigation of the shooting at the Jewish museum in Brussels that left at least three people dead. (AP Photo/Belgian Federal Police, File)

Suspect in Jewish museum killings went to Syria

Washington Examiner · June 1, 2014 10:45 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, center, speaks during his meeting with secular and religious dignitaries from Damascus suburbs, in Damascus, Syria, Saturday, May 31, 2014. Syrian rebels blew up a tunnel packed with explosives in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Friday, killing at least 20 pro-government fighters, activists and rebels said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Lebanon warns Syrians not to go home ahead of vote

Bassem Mroue · May 31, 2014 6:06 pm

Officials: Syrian suicide bomber was an American

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Officials: Syrian suicide bomber was an American

MATTHEW LEEZEINA KARAM · May 31, 2014 1:14 am

Syrian people gather at the site of one of two car bombs that exploded in the pro-government district of Zahra in the central Syrian city of Homs, Syria on April 29. (AP/SANA)

Beltway Confidential

U.S. citizen carried out suicide bombing in Syria

Blake Seitz · May 30, 2014 9:12 pm

Thousands flee Syrian cities ahead of election

Thousands flee Syrian cities ahead of election

Bassem Mroue · May 30, 2014 6:42 pm

President Barack Obama delivering the commencement address to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point's Class of 2014, in West Point, N.Y., May 28, 2014. The president defended his foreign policy, declaring that the U.S. remains the world's most indispensable nation, but argued for restraint before embarking on more military adventures. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

The Obama Doctrine might as well be a Ouija borad

Linda Chavez · May 30, 2014 4:02 pm

FILE -- In this August 26, 2013, file Photo, a U.N. team, that is scheduled to investigate an alleged chemical attack that killed hundreds last week in a Damascus suburb, leaves their hotel in a convoy, in Damascus, Syria. In a statement issued Tuesday, May 27, 2014, by the chemical weapons watchdog that is overseeing the dismantling of Syria's chemical weapons program, said a convoy of its inspectors has come under attack, but all are safe. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said that the inspectors had been traveling to the site of an alleged chlorine gas attack site when they were attacked. (AP Photo, File)

Chemical weapons inspectors attacked in Syria

Albert Aji · May 30, 2014 4:00 am