Tag: Syria

Israeli soldiers load shells in their tank following the first death on the Israeli side of the Golan since the Syrian civil war erupted more than three years ago, near the Israeli village of Alonei Habashan, in the area of Tel Hazeka, close to the Quneitra border crossing in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Sunday, June 22, 2014. A civilian vehicle in the Golan Heights was targeted by forces in neighboring Syria on Sunday in an attack that killed a 15-year-old boy and prompted Israeli tanks to retaliate by firing on Syrian government targets, the Israeli military said. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)

Israeli military carries out airstrikes in Syria

Josef Federman · June 23, 2014 6:14 am

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Beltway Confidential

Naming the Islamist militants in the news: ISIS or ISIL?

Charles Hoskinson · June 20, 2014 7:51 pm

Americans believe U.S. global prestige has worsened under President Obama. AP Photo

Poll: 55% say America’s global Image worse under Obama-Clinton

Paul Bedard · June 19, 2014 7:21 pm

President Obama announced plans to send a team of U.S. military advisers to Iraq to try help the country's security forces beat back an al Qaeda-inspired insurgency gaining ground across large swaths of the country. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

National Security

Obama: U.S. will send small team of military advisers to Iraq

Susan Crabtree · June 19, 2014 6:37 pm

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