Phil Stewart
Tuesday, July 9, 2013 - 14:09
Congressional committees are holding up a plan to send U.S. weapons to rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad because of fears that such deliveries will not be decisive and the arms might end up in the hands of Islamist militants.
Wednesday, April 14, 2010 - 00:00
Gates, who will visit Venezuela's neighbor Colombia this week as well as Peru, said he thought much of the deepening ties between Venezuela and Iran could be reduced to political posturing on both sides.
Thursday, April 8, 2010 - 00:00
A diplomatic source familiar with the document described the accord as partly symbolic.
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 - 00:00
Frank Mora, deputy assistant secretary of defense for Western Hemisphere Affairs, said the "baseless" and "unfounded" accusations -- which the United States had immediately denied -- were part of a pattern by Chavez