Tag: Syria

The Fall of Mosul

Stephen F. Hayes · June 10, 2014 7:50 pm

Next week Hillary Clinton will release "Hard Choices," a memoir of her years as secretary of state. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

The amazing and omniscient Hillary Clinton

Philip Klein · June 9, 2014 6:05 pm

Syrian soldiers celebrate Bashar Assad's presidential re-election in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday June 4, 2014. Assad has been re-elected in a landslide, officials said Wednesday, capturing another seven-year term in the middle of a bloody 3-year-old uprising against his rule that has devastated the country. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syrian president declares amnesty for prisoners

ALBERT AJIBARBARA SURK · June 9, 2014 3:04 pm

Syrian soldiers walks past a bus with President Bashar Assad's portrait in Damascus, Syria, Tuesday June 3, 2014. Polls opened in government-held areas in Syria amid very tight security Tuesday for the country's presidential election, a vote that President Bashar Assad is widely expected to win. (AP Photo/Dusan Vranic)

Syria’s Assad wins presidential vote in landslide

Albert Aji · June 4, 2014 9:08 pm

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

National Security

Officials: Syrian suicide bomber was an American

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