Syria - Page 208

August 12, 2015

Chemical inspectors highly confident chlorine gas was used as a weapon against Syrian villages

Chemical weapons investigators concluded "with a high degree of confidence" that chlorine gas was used as a weapon against three Syrian villages last year, affecting between 350 and 500 people and killing 13, according to a report obtained Tuesday by The Associated Press.

July 15, 2015

ISIS threat: Operation 'Inherent Resolve' is a flop. Time to arm the Kurds

President Obama met with the anti-ISIS coalition’s defense ministers at Andrews Air Force Base this week. Afterward, he said the 21 member states agreed that they’re going to defeat ISIS. It sounded great. But it was a fairy tale.

July 1, 2015

Why Syria needs an earthquake: Because Americans are ignoring the greatest humanitarian crisis in decades

As the war in Syria now drags on into its fifth year, I am distraught by the apathy of the American public. No modern crisis has created so much human suffering yet so little response by the American public. Had Syria been devastated by a sudden catastrophic earthquake, Americans might have responded more generously. But war has a way of turning our heads away from human suffering..

May 21, 2015

Israel launches airstrike targeting militants on Syria border

Israel's military said Sunday it launched an airstrike on its border with Syria after spotting militants carrying a bomb in the Israeli-held Golan Heights.

May 21, 2015

Police arrest missing UK family trying to reach Syria, Turkish official says

A Turkish official says that police have arrested a missing British couple with four children believed to have left England for Syria.

May 21, 2015

First US-backed Syrian rebel group to get weapons disbands

The first Syrian rebel group to receive major military aid from the United States announced over the weekend that it was disbanding. 

May 7, 2015

ISIS threat: Why we need American boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq

To defeat ISIS with airstrikes the problem is twofold. First, knowing with certainty the strike has killed its target. Second, survivors of the strike will scatter and disappear. Troops on the ground could capture or kill those survivors, and that job is currently given to local Arab forces.

May 7, 2015

Memo to Joint Chiefs: Now is the time for 'moral courage'

Obeying orders from superiors is well ingrained within military culture, rarely necessitating acts of moral courage.  

May 7, 2015

ISIS threat: Americans are passengers on Titanic with Obama at helm

Americans have become passengers on an ill-fated Titanic, with Obama at the helm, refusing to warn us. Politically correct, as always, he misrepresents Islam and leaves us apathetic and in the dark, blind to Muslims’ plan to destroy Western democracies.

May 7, 2015

Who are the invisible women joining ISIS?

Muslim women have long been potent radicalizing forces in Islamic jihad.