Karen DeYoung
Wednesday, May 14, 2014 - 07:22
But, said Jarba adviser Oubai Shahbandar, “we’ve made significant headway and laid the pillars for much more significant discussions.”
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 09:36
“Frankly, we don’t have high expectations about this meeting,” this official said of the London gathering. “But it’s important that the subject remains on the international agenda.”
Tuesday, May 13, 2014 - 06:17
Cohen had charged that Ajmi “has a history of promoting jihad. . . . In fact, his image has been featured on fundraising posters” for Jabhat al-Nusra, a group of Syrian opposition fighters that the Obama administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization.
Wednesday, April 16, 2014 - 07:10
It is unclear how the rebels obtained the wire-guided missiles, which are capable of penetrating heavy armor and fortifications and are standard in the U.S. military arsenal.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014 - 10:52
Netanyahu spent more than half of his annual AIPAC address on Iran, which he said was on the wrong side of the world’s “moral divide” and not to be trusted.
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 08:44
What appears at first glance to be a legal debate over an arcane dispute among terrorists is largely theoretical, since the administration has no current intention of attacking in Syria or Iraq.
Monday, January 13, 2014 - 09:23
After a meeting here with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, Secretary of State John F. Kerry sought to lower expectations for early success in the negotiations between Syria’s government and opposition forces.
Friday, December 13, 2013 - 08:34
The Obama administration is willing to consider supporting an expanded Syrian rebel coalition that would include Islamist groups, provided the groups are not allied with al-Qaeda and agree to support upcoming peace talks in Geneva.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:07
Some in Libya, along with a number of outside experts, worry that the new force — whose recruits will be selected by the Libyan defense minister and vetted by the country that trains them — could ultimately become a tool for competing groups to advance their own agendas, or simply one more armed faction in a dangerous sea of firepower.
Monday, December 2, 2013 - 07:05
A bipartisan juggernaut of senior senators is spending the remaining week of the Thanksgiving recess forging agreement on a new sanctions bill that the senators hope to pass before breaking again for Christmas.