Tag: Syria

UN resolution on Syria aid faces vote this week

UN resolution on Syria aid faces vote this week

Edith Lederer · February 20, 2014 6:43 am

Syria rebel commanders reject leadership shakeup

Ryan Lucas · February 20, 2014 3:14 am

Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades looks the Prime Minister of Denmark, Helle Thorning Schmidt as she speaks to the media aboard the Danish frigate HDMS Esbern Snare at the Cypriot port of Larnaca on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014. Thorning-Schmidt visited the frigate which is part of a joint Danish-Norwegian operation tasked with ferrying Syria's chemical weapons out of the strife-torn country. (AP Photo/Press and Information Office)

Syria urged to hasten removal of chemical weapons

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2014 8:34 pm

The Dividing Line Between the Good and the Bad

The Dividing Line Between the Good and the Bad

Lee Smith · February 19, 2014 2:04 pm

Syrian refugee, Amal Fawwaz, 11, right, raises her hand to answer her teacher's question in a makeshift tent class at an unofficial refugee camp on the outskirts of Amman, Jordan. (AP/Mohammad Hannon)

National Security

As Syria threat expands, Obama mulls options

Bradley Klapper · February 19, 2014 8:26 am

President Barack Obama meets with Mexican President Enrique PeÃ±a Nieto at the state government palace in Toluca, Mexico on Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2014, before the seventh trilateral North American Leaders Summit Meeting. This year's theme is Ã?North American Competitiveness.Ã? (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

National Security

Obama: Syria, Ukraine not part of ‘some Cold War chessboard’

Brian Hughes · February 19, 2014 5:00 am

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 Syrian men helping a survivor out of a destroyed building after a Syrian forces warplanes attacked Masaken Hanano neighborhood, in Aleppo, Syria, Monday, Feb. 17, 2014. The Western-backed Free Syrian Army has appointed a new military chief, opposition groups announced Monday as they try to restructure a rebel movement that has fallen into disarray as it faces rampant infighting and declining international support for its fight to topple President Bashar Assad. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Syria drives rebels from site of alleged killings

Washington Examiner · February 19, 2014 1:20 am

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Carney answered questions including ones on Syria and North Korea. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Obama struggling to find winning formula in Syria

BRADLEY KLAPPERJULIE PACE · February 18, 2014 10:50 pm

Lead from Out Front

Lee Smith · February 18, 2014 7:41 pm

American ship MV Cape Ray is on an unprecedented mission to collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syria's chemical weapons program. The Cape Ray will go to Gioia Tauro in southern Italy, where experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons say it will take on board 560 metric tons of chemicals that have been transported from the Syrian port of Latakia in two cargo ships from Denmark and Norway. (AP/Miguel Angel Morenatti)

Beltway Confidential

Syria chemical weapons deal seems to be unraveling

Michael Barone · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

On CNN Tuesday morning, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani suggested that President Obama should have bombed Syria without congressional authorization. (AP Photo)

Beltway Confidential

Rudy Giuliani: Obama should have bombed Syria without Congress

Charlie Spiering · February 18, 2014 5:00 am

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2014. Carney answered questions including ones on Syria and North Korea. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

White House: Russia ‘unhelpful’ on Syria

Meghashyam Mali · February 18, 2014 5:00 am