Tag: Syria

Wars Within Wars

Jonathan Spyer · May 26, 2014 4:00 am

Hezbollah leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah, center top, delivers a broadcast speech during a rally commemorating "Liberation Day," which marks the withdrawal of the Israeli army from southern Lebanon in 2000, in the southern border town of Bint Jbeil, Lebanon, Sunday May 25, 2014. Hezbollah's leader Sheik Hassan Nasrallah warned that hard-line foreign fighters in Syria pose a global threat as they return home. Nasrallah accused European countries of easing the flight of extremist fighters into Syria, where they are fighting against the rule of President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

Hezbollah chief warns of foreign fighters in Syria

Diaa Hadid · May 25, 2014 7:33 pm

In this photo provided by the Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano, Pope Francis visits Bethany beyond the Jordan river, the site of Christ's baptism, west of Amman, Jordan, Saturday, May 24, 2014. The pontiff is in Jordan on the first of a three day trip to the Middle East that will also take him to the West Bank and Israel. (AP Photo/Osservatore Romano, Pool)

Pope blasts arms dealers at start of Mideast trip

Nicole Winfield · May 24, 2014 10:55 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian government soldiers stand guard on the roof of Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria rebels, army agree on truce near key city

Diaa Hadid · May 24, 2014 1:10 pm

President Obama got some chilling news from a USA Today/Pew poll this week

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Zogby Report Card: Festering Veterans Affairs scandal undermines Obama

Paul Bedard · May 24, 2014 10:00 am

This photo provided by an anti-Bashar Assad activist group Edlib News Network (ENN), which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, show anti-Syrian government protesters carrying a banner and a Syrian revolution flag during a demonstration in Kafr Nabil town, Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, May 23, 2014. (AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)

Syrian TV: 39 killed in campaign tent shelling

Zeina Karam · May 23, 2014 8:12 pm

Syrian TV: 39 killed, 205 wounded in mortar shell on pro-Assad campaign event

Syrian TV: 39 killed, 205 wounded in mortar shell on pro-Assad campaign event

Washington Examiner · May 23, 2014 7:49 pm

Senate panel backs arming Syrian rebels

Senate panel backs arming Syrian rebels

Donna Cassata · May 22, 2014 10:20 pm

UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite gov’t

UN says ready to get aid into Syria despite gov’t

Cara Anna · May 22, 2014 9:52 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian army soldier walks in front of Aleppo prison in Aleppo, Syria, Thursday, May 22, 2014. Syrian troops backed by airstrikes broke a yearlong rebel siege of a prison in the northern city of Aleppo Thursday, allowing President Bashar Assad's forces to close in on a nearby command center of a coalition of Islamist rebel groups, opposition activists said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian tanks roll into Aleppo prison grounds

Zeina Karam · May 22, 2014 7:31 pm

FILE - Members of the United Nations Security Council, including Russia's U.N. Ambassador Vitaly Churkin, foreground second from left, raise their hands in this April 14, 2012 file photo taken at U.N. headquarters. The U.N. Security Council faces a dramatic vote Thursday May 22, 2014 on referring the Syrian crisis to the International Criminal Court for investigation of possible war crimes, with dozens of countries signing on to embarrass Russia which vowed to kill the measure that demands a path to justice. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)

Russia, China veto UN move to refer Syria to ICC

CARA ANNAEDITH M. LEDERER · May 22, 2014 2:43 pm

Obama discusses Syria with Jordan’s King Abdullah

Obama discusses Syria with Jordan’s King Abdullah

Washington Examiner · May 21, 2014 11:22 pm