Tag: Syria

UN tells Syria to hurry on chem. weapons disposal

UN tells Syria to hurry on chem. weapons disposal

Edith Lederer · February 6, 2014 7:53 pm

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 19, 2014, file photo provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrian citizens inspect an unexploded barrel of explosives which was dropped from a Syrian forces helicopter, on a street in Aleppo, Syria. For nearly two months, the Syrian government has conducted an intense air campaign on opposition-held districts of the northern city of Aleppo. Airstrikes on the city over the past week alone have killed some 245 people, according to activists. That pace rivals a two-week stretch in the second half of December when more than 500 people were killed in Aleppo airstrikes. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC, File)

Syria puts a crude weapon to deadly use

Ryan Lucas · February 6, 2014 7:29 pm

Kerry Uses Vietnam War Peace Talks as Reference for Syria Policy

Kerry Uses Vietnam War Peace Talks as Reference for Syria Policy

Jeryl Bier · February 6, 2014 4:14 pm

FILE - In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in Syria have been tortured, maimed and sexually abused by President Bashar Assad's forces and recruited for combat by the rebels fighting to topple him, according to a new United Nations report, posted on the U.N. website late Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. (AP Photo/Manu Brabo, File)

UN: ‘Unspeakable suffering’ for Syria’s children

Barbara Surk · February 5, 2014 8:15 pm

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, residents of the besieged Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp carry their belongings as they flee the camp, on the southern edge of the Syrian capital Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014. Over the past six days the U.N. continued to distribute food parcels in the Palestinian camp where activists say at least 85 people have died as a result of lack of food and medicine since mid-2013. (AP Photo/SANA)

National Security

U.S. officials weigh strategy shift in Syria

Susan Crabtree · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Last week, at the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's annual threat-assessment hearing, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper testified that one of the leading groups in the Syrian rebellion -- the al Qaeda-affiliated al Nusra Front -- would like to attack the U.S. homeland. (AP Photo)

Al Qaeda’s Syrian rebels have ‘aspirations’ to attack US

Terence Jeffrey · February 5, 2014 5:00 am

Kerry Talks Out of School

Lee Smith · February 4, 2014 8:10 pm

In this Sunday Feb. 2, 2014 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center (AMC), an anti-Bashar Assad activist group, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows buildings damaged by Syrian government forces airplanes, in Aleppo, Syria. Syrian government helicopters and warplanes unleashed a wave of airstrikes on more than a dozen opposition-held neighborhoods in the northern city of Aleppo on Sunday, firing missiles and dropping crude barrel bombs in a ferocious attack that killed dozens of people, including at least 17 children, activists said. (AP Photo/Aleppo Media Center, AMC)

Al-Qaida breaks ties with group in Syria

Maamoun Youssef · February 3, 2014 1:54 pm

Obama’s Fantasy World

Lee Smith · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

White House press secretary Jay Carney gestures as he speaks during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, Feb. 3, 2014. Carney discussed Syria, President Barack Obama's trip to Middle East ally Saudi Arabia next month, and other topics. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

White House: Obama ‘absolutely’ believes in Syria policy

Meghashyam Mali · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Obama plans to visit with King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud to discuss the "enduring and strategic ties" between the U.S. and Saudi Arabia. (AP Photo)

National Security

Obama to travel to Saudi Arabia amid tensions over Iran, Syria

Susan Crabtree · February 3, 2014 5:00 am

Iraqi Christians pray during a Christmas mass at Virgin Mary Chaldean Church in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, Dec. 25, 2012. (AP File)

Beltway Confidential

Rise of radical Islam made life worse for Christians in 2013, with more to come in 2014

Ashe Schow · February 2, 2014 5:00 am