Middle East Policies - Page 661

December 20, 2015

Kerry on Assad's chemical weapons claim: 'Please'

Secretary of State John Kerry, after Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed in an interview with Fox News that his regime did not use chemical weapons, ridiculed the Syrian president and his allies for claiming the rebels might have been behind last month's attack -- as he urged the United Nations to get tough when it convenes next week. 

December 20, 2015

Defiant Assad claims government did not use chem weapons, vows to abide by agreement

Syrian President Bashar Assad, in an exclusive interview with Fox News, claimed he is fully committed to carrying out a plan to turn over and destroy his government's chemical weapons -- while continuing to deny responsibility for last month's deadly chemical weapons attack despite new evidence that officials say implicates the Assad regime. 

December 20, 2015

House Republicans: State Department officials should have been fired over Benghazi

House Republicans on Wednesday criticized a ranking State Department official for the failure to hold other top agency officials accountable for security lapses at the Benghazi mission, where four Americans were killed last year. 

December 20, 2015

Obama, Netanyahu to hold White House meeting

President Obama will host Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House later this month. 

December 20, 2015

Pro-opposition Syria analyst O'Bagy admits she was never enrolled in Ph.D. program

Embattled Syria analyst Elizabeth O'Bagy now admits she was never enrolled in a Ph.D. program despite claims to the contrary as she rose -- and quickly fell -- as a prominent scholar whose writings were used to make the case for military intervention in Syria. 

December 20, 2015

State Department’s Benghazi review let senior officials off the hook, report finds

The State Department review of the Benghazi terror attack let senior officials off the hook for the policy decisions that led to sub-standard security at the U.S. compound in eastern Libya, according to a draft House committee report obtained by Fox News.

December 20, 2015

US, allies vague on whether Syria resolution will include threat of force

Secretary of State John Kerry and his British and French counterparts would not say Monday whether a new U.N. resolution on Syria will threaten military force should the Assad regime not comply with a deal to turn over its chemical weapons, despite an official U.N. report showing "convincing evidence" the weapons were used. 

December 20, 2015

Could Syria showdown lead to US-Iran talks on nuclear program?

President Obama is acknowledging having exchanged letters with Iran's new president, raising the possibility that diplomatic talks over Iran's controversial nuclear program could be renewed on the heels of the U.S.-Russia effort to strike a chemical weapons deal with Syria. 

December 20, 2015

Top congressional Democrats, Republicans agree Putin was deal maker on Syria

Top congressional Democrats and Republicans differed Sunday about how the United States' effort to solve the Syria crisis swerved from a threat of military force to a possible diplomatic solution, but they agreed Russian President Vladimir Putin changed the course of action.

December 20, 2015

Obama praises deal with Russia on Syria, but cautions that work remains

President Barack Obama praised an agreement reached Saturday between the U.S. and Russia, saying it offers a chance to destroy Syria's huge stockpile of chemical weapons and promises to end the threat the weapons pose to the region and the world as well as the Syrian people.