Tag: Syria

Samantha Power, the United State's ambassador to the United Nations, speaks during an U.N. Security Council emergency meeting called at Russia's request Sunday, April 13, 2014, at United Nations headquarters, to discuss the growing crisis in Ukraine. (AP/John Minchillo)

Beltway Confidential

Obama’s UN ambassador compares Syrian dictator’s atrocities to Rwandan genocide

Joel Gehrke · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

Sen. Marco Rubio, the Tea Party darling and possible 2016 presidential hopeful, gave a foreign policy speech sponsored by various groups at the University of Texas. (Graeme ÃÂ Jennings/Washington Examiner)

Marco Rubio: Terrorists training in Syria may strike U.S.

Associated Press · April 16, 2014 4:00 am

EDS NOTE: GRAPHIC CONTENT - Forensic pathologist Dr. Stuart Hamilton, right, presents one of the photos in a series of what is reported to be photographic evidence of torture in Syria as Gerard Araud, France's ambassador to the United Nations, looks on during a news conference at U.N. headquarters following a closed Security Council meeting on Tuesday, April 15, 2014. Ambassador Araud said a pall of silence lingered after the council members viewed the ghastly photographs of dead Syrian civil war victims, then questions slowly began about the credibility of the slides of the dead, who offer mute testimony to the savagery of a Syrian civil war in which more than 150,000 have died. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

Security Council sees grim images of Syrian dead

PETER JAMES SPIELMANN · April 15, 2014 9:08 pm

FILE - This Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013 file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows a general view of Maaloula village, northeast of the capital Damascus, Syria. Syrian government troops seized two villages, one of them an ancient Christian hamlet, north of Damascus on Monday, April 14, 2014 as part of the military's relentless offensive along the rugged frontier with Lebanon, state media and activists said. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Syrian forces try seize rebel-held areas of Homs

ALBERT AJIDIAA HADID · April 15, 2014 6:28 pm

Albanian arrested for alleged Syria recruitment

Albanian arrested for alleged Syria recruitment

Washington Examiner · April 15, 2014 5:16 pm

More chemicals shipped out of Syria

More chemicals shipped out of Syria

Michael Corder · April 14, 2014 6:45 pm

In this photo released on Sunday, April 13, 2014 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, a Syrian forces tank arrives to take position during clashes with Syrian rebels, near the town of Rankous, Syria. The seizure of the villages comes a day after Syrian troops backed by fighters from Lebanon's Shiite militant Hezbollah group captured the nearby town of Rankous. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syrian troops choke off rebels north of Damascus

Albert Aji · April 14, 2014 6:37 pm

2 teenagers leave Austria, seek to fight in Syria

2 teenagers leave Austria, seek to fight in Syria

Washington Examiner · April 14, 2014 12:22 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

National Security

Official: US looking into Syria toxic gas reports

ALBERT AJIBARBARA SURK · April 13, 2014 6:02 pm

In this Friday, April 11, 2014 image made from amateur video provided by the Shams News Network, a loosely organized anti-Assad group based in and out of Syria that claim not to have any connection to Syrian opposition parties or any other states, and which is consistent with independent AP reporting, a man lies on the floor with an oxygen mask at a hospital room in Kfar Zeita, some 200 kilometers (125 miles) north of Damascus, Syria. Syrian government media and rebel forces said Saturday, April 12, 2014 that poison gas had been used in the village, on Friday injuring scores of people, while blaming each other for the attack. (AP Photo/Shams News Network)

Poison gas claims complicate Syrian civil war

Bassem Mroue · April 13, 2014 12:40 am

Syria war deepens fears for Lebanon’s missing

Barbara Surk · April 11, 2014 8:36 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Flames rise from damaged cars at the site where two car bombs exploded at a commercial street inhabited mostly by members of President Bashar Assad's minority Alawite sect, in Homs province, central Syria, Wednesday April 9, 2014. Two car bombs exploded Wednesday in a government-held district of Syria's battleground city of Homs, killing at least 25 people and wounding more than 100, state media said. (AP Photo/SANA)

Syria death toll from rebel infighting rises to 68

Bassem Mroue · April 11, 2014 2:59 pm