Tag: Syria

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., criticized President Obama for focusing only on the disarming of strongman Bashar Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons in his State of the Union address and not making bolder efforts to limit the violence in Syria. (Examiner File/Graeme Jennings)

John McCain wants Obama to ‘acknowledge failure’ in Syria

Brian Hughes · February 16, 2014 5:00 am

In this photo provided by the anti-government activist group Aleppo Media Center, Syrian men help survivors out of a destroyed building after a Syrian forces warplane's attack in Aleppo, Saturday, Feb. 8, 2014. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center AMC)

Beltway Confidential

A blistering assessment of Obama’s Syria policy

Michael Barone · February 16, 2014 5:00 am

Syrian chief negotiator Bashar Jaafari, Ambassador of the Permanent Representative Mission of Syria to the UN in New York, speaks to the media during a ns conference after the second round of negotiations between the Syrian government and the opposition at the European headquarters of the United Nations, in Geneva, Switzerland, Saturday , Feb. 15, 2014. U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi ended direct talks between the Syrian government and opposition Saturday without finding a way of breaking the impasse in peace talks. Saturday's talks, which lasted less than half an hour, left the future of the negotiating process in doubt. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

Syrian troops bombard town near Lebanon border

Bassem Mroue · February 15, 2014 6:41 pm

U.N.-Arab League mediator Lakhdar Brahimi speaks during a news conference after finishing the second round of negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Saturday. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi)

National Security

Syria peace talks in doubt after 6th day in Geneva

Associated Press, John Heilprin · February 15, 2014 2:10 pm

President Obama waves to the media as he greets Jordan's King Abdullah II at a retreat in Rancho Mirage, Calif., on Friday. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama pledges $1b in loan guarantees to Jordan

Susan Crabtree · February 15, 2014 5:00 am

In this image made from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, vehicles smolder after an explosion outside a mosque in Yadouda, Syria, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. A car bomb blew up outside a mosque in a rebel-held village in southern Syria as worshippers were leaving after Friday prayers, killing dozens of people and filling clinics and hospitals with the wounded, anti-government activists said. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network)

Car bomb outside mosque in Syria kills dozens

BASSEM MROUEDIAA HADID · February 14, 2014 11:11 pm

National Security

Syrian peace talks reach impasse; US, Russia spar

JOHN HEILPRINZEINA KARAM · February 14, 2014 7:06 pm

Spain closes enclave to avert Syrian migrant rush

Spain closes enclave to avert Syrian migrant rush

CIARAN GILESPAUL SCHEMM · February 14, 2014 11:58 am

HOLD FOR STORY SYRIA PEACE TALKS OPPOSITION NEGOTIATOR BY ZEINA KARAM - FILE - In this Nov. 11, 2012, file photo, Syrian opposition member Suheir Atassi attends a meeting of the Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces, formed after the Syrian National Council (SNC) in Doha, Qatar. As a human rights lawyer and longtime pro-democracy activist in Syria, Atassi once said she would never negotiate with President Bashar Assad's government. But Atassi is now one of two Syrian women on the opposition team in Geneva trying to negotiate an end to the civil war that has killed more than 130,000 people and displaced millions. For her, even discussing concessions with the government run by a man she regards as a war criminal is not easy. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal, File)

Longtime Syria activist now negotiates peace

Zeina Karam · February 14, 2014 11:21 am

Druse supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad hold up his portraits during a rally, demanding the return of the Golan Heights, captured by Israel in 1967, close to the Syrian border in Majdal Shams in the Golan Heights, Friday, Feb. 14, 2014. The annual demonstration is in protest of the 1981 Israeli law in which the Jewish state annexed the strategic plateau it captured from Syria during 1967 Arab-Israeli war. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

White House: No ‘significant progress’ in Syria talks

Brian Hughes · February 14, 2014 5:00 am

Syrian citizens ride in the back of a truck with their belongings after fleeing Yabroud, the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region, as they drive towards the Lebanese-Syrian border town of Arsal in eastern Lebanon, Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. Syrian troops pounded Thursday the town of Yabroud the last rebel stronghold in Syria's mountainous Qalamoun region, forcing hundreds to flee into the nearby Lebanese town of Arsal. Backed by Lebanon's Hezbollah fighters, the Syrian army has been on a crushing offensive in the region since early December. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein)

Syria strikes kill 400 so far this month in Aleppo

BARBARA SURKJOHN HEILPRIN · February 13, 2014 10:13 pm

Louay Safi, right, spokesperson for the Syrian National Coalition, Syria's main political opposition group, leaves a press briefing with Anas al-Abdeh, center, a member of the Syrian National Coalition at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, Switzerland, Wednesday, Feb 12, 2014. Russian Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Gennady Gatilov arrived in Geneva and met with U.N. mediator Lakhdar Brahimi who was pessimistic over any progress at the talks. (AP Photo/Anja Niedringhaus)

Syrian planes pound rebel town near Lebanon border

BARBARA SURKZEINA KARAM · February 12, 2014 3:47 pm