Alliances - Page 36

January 12, 2017

Turkey's strikes on Kurds could drag US into new front, military sources fear

On the evening of July 24, shortly after an agreement was reached between US and Turkish officials allowing the US to use Turkey’s airbases to launch its jets against the Islamic State,  Turkey launched a massive airstrike against a Kurdish militant group in the mountains of Iraq along the border with Iran, which took the U.S. military completely by surprise.

January 12, 2017

Obama to decide on declassifying 9/11 documents within 60 days

President Obama will decide whether to declassify 28 pages of sealed documents — which some suspect show a Saudi connection to the 9/11 attacks — within 60 days, according to a former senator who co-chaired the 2002 joint congressional inquiry into the attacks.

January 12, 2017

US launching complex operation to train, arm Syrian rebels amid airstrikes

Newly launched airstrikes in Syria are only one piece of the puzzle in the United States' war against the Islamic State, as the military prepares to launch a complex operation to train and arm Syrian rebels.

January 12, 2017

Assad must go? Obama administration's focus on Syria in doubt as death toll soars

The rise of ISIS militants in Syria and Iraq, and the unwillingness of Americans to see their military involved in another foreign conflict, appear to have cooled President Obama's once-strident rhetoric demanding Syrian President Bashar al-Assad "must go" -- even as the death toll in the three-year-old civil war tops 170,000.

January 12, 2017

US under new pressure to absorb Syrian refugees as Europe faces crisis

The surge of refugees fleeing Syria and other war-torn regions is putting immense pressure not only on Europe but also the United States, as the Obama administration faces calls to take a more active role in the humanitarian crisis.

January 12, 2017

Americans stuck in Yemen file suit demanding State Department, military rescue them

Claiming the Obama administration turned its back on them, 41 Americans stranded in war-torn Yemen filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against the State Department and Defense Department for not evacuating them -- as fighting intensifies and U.S. allies launch airstrikes.

January 12, 2017

India's rape epidemic: Will the US apply pressure for change to its Asian ally?

As grisly cases of rape in India start to emerge again, many are hoping the United States and others will apply pressure to their Asian ally to renew the fight against this epidemic.

January 12, 2017

US caught between allies amid pressure to limit NSA

The Obama administration is finding itself in a sticky surveillance situation.

January 12, 2017

Treasury blacklists firms allegedly tied to drug lord

The U.S. Treasury Department blacklisted 20 entities and one person linked to a Mexican drug lord who was recently released on a technicality in the torture-murder of a Drug Enforcement Administration agent.

January 12, 2017

Agents shocked as cartel boss involved in torture death of DEA colleague slips away

Mexican and U.S. authorities are scrambling to find a 60-year-old former drug lord -- who was behind the brutal killing of an American agent nearly two decades ago -- following his recent, and unexpected, release from a Mexican prison.