List of Syria articles
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TOPSHOT - Smoke billows following a reported air strike on a rebel-held area in the southern Syrian city of Daraa, on April 8, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Mohamad ABAZEED (Photo credit should read MOHAMAD ABAZEED/AFP/Getty Images) The Trump Doctrine Was Written By CNN
The president has officially reserved the right to use military force when he sees something that outrages him on TV.
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 7: U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley confers with an aide during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning the situation in Syria, at UN headquarters, April 7, 2017 in New York City. On Thursday night, the United States launched airstrikes directed at Syrian government air bases in response to the chemical attack earlier in the week. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) SitRep: Which Way on Syria; U.S. Ships Push Toward Korea; Washington Lambasts Moscow
Trump Doctrine Talk; U.S. Soldier Falls in Afghanistan; Russian Hacker Arrested; McFarland to Singapore
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A Syrian child receives treatment at a makeshift clinic following reported air strikes by government forces in the rebel-held town of Douma, on the eastern outskirts of Damascus, on April 7, 2017. / AFP PHOTO / Abd Doumany (Photo credit should read ABD DOUMANY/AFP/Getty Images) Trump’s Humanitarian Intervention in Syria Is Just Getting Started
But the president might be the last to know it.
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MEDITERRANEAN SEA - APRIL 7: In this handout provided by the U.S. Navy,The guided-missile destroyer USS Porter fires a Tomahawk land attack missile on April 7, 2017 in the Mediterranean Sea. The USS Porter was one of two destroyers that fired a total of 59 cruise missiles at a Syrian military airfield in retaliation for a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians this week. The attack was the first direct U.S. assault on Syria and the government of President Bashar al-Assad in the six-year war there. (Photo by Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via Getty Images) Assad Shrugs off Trump’s Strike, Uses Just-Hit Airbase to Bomb Rebels
Less than 24 hours after Tomahawk missiles pounded an airbase used in a chemical weapons attack, Assad regime warplanes are reportedly back in the air.
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IDLIB, SYRIA - APRIL 4: Bodies of chlorine gas victims are seen after a suspected chlorine gas attack by Assad Regime forces to Khan Shaykhun town of Idlib, Syria on April 4, 2017. (Photo by Sadduldin Zaidan /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images) Syria’s Chemical Weapons Kill Chain
There’s a long list of Syrian officials with blood on their hands -- but the culpability goes all the way to the top.
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US President Donald Trump (L) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (R) walk together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 7, 2017. President Donald Trump entered a second day of talks with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Friday hoping to strike deals on trade and jobs after an overnight show of strength in Syria. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) What Trump Calls Strength, China Calls Stupidity
Donald Trump’s Syria strike may have upstaged Xi Jinping’s summit, but Beijing is only too happy to see the United States trap itself again in the Middle East.
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NEW YORK, NY - APRIL 7: Russian Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vladimir Safronkov confers with aides during a meeting of the United Nations Security Council concerning the situation in Syria, at UN headquarters, April 7, 2017 in New York City. On Thursday night, the United States launched airstrikes directed at Syrian government air bases in response to the chemical attack earlier in the week. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images) World Reacts to Trump’s Syria Strike, And The Kremlin Sends Reinforcements
America’s allies praised the attack but some worry it could signal the start of an open-ended U.S. military escalation in Syria.
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GettyImages-633539584 (1)crop 59 Ways to Kill a Russian Reset
All it takes is a few dozen Tomahawk missiles and a lecture on human rights.
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xi trump Syria Strikes Overshadow Trump Summit With Xi Jinping
Few details emerge from the two-day meeting, which was interrupted by U.S. strikes in Syria.
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A U.S. Tomahawk missile flies toward Syria on April 7, 2017. (Ford Williams/U.S. Navy via Getty Images) What’s Next After the Syria Strike — Preventing a Wider Conflagration
Now that the United States has taken action, it should take steps to prevent wider escalation.
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US President Donald Trump departs after delivering a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, April 6, 2017. Trump ordered a massive military strike against a Syria Thursday in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack they blame on President Bashar al-Assad. A US official said 59 precision guided missiles hit Shayrat Airfield in Syria, where Washington believes Tuesday's deadly attack was launched. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) 3 Questions Trump Must Answer After His Syria Strike
Whether the president achieves success in Syria will depend on what comes next, not on what happened Thursday.
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TAJI, IRAQ - APRIL 12: U.S. Army trainers watch as an Iraqi recruit fires at a military base on April 12, 2015 in Taji, Iraq. U.S. forces, currently operating in 5 large bases throught the country, are training thousands of Iraqi Army combat troops, trying to rebuild a force they had origninally trained before the U.S. withdrawal from Iraq in 2010. Members of the U.S. Army's 5-73 CAV, 3BCT, 82nd Airborne Division are teaching members of the newly-formed 15th Division of the Iraqi Army, as the Iraqi government launches offensives to try to recover territory lost to ISIS last year. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images) Tom Friedman Is Calling for a Partition of Syria. Trump Should Run the Other Way.
You’d think by now the New York Times columnist would have learned that putting U.S. boots on the ground in the Middle East doesn’t end well.
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170407-N-FQ994-135 MEDITERRANEAN SEA (April 7, 2017) USS Ross (DDG 71) fires a tomahawk land attack missile April 7, 2017. USS Ross, an Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, forward-deployed to Rota, Spain, is conducting naval operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations in support of U.S. national security interests in Europe and Africa. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Robert S. Price/Released) War with Syria?: A Best Defense primer
None of the options are good, I am sure Defense Secretary James Mattis told President Trump at their meeting in Palm Beach.
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TOPSHOT - US President Donald Trump delivers a statement on Syria from the Mar-a-Lago estate in West Palm Beach, Florida, on April 6, 2017. Trump ordered a massive military strike against a Syria Thursday in retaliation for a chemical weapons attack they blame on President Bashar al-Assad. A US official said 59 precision guided missiles hit Shayrat Airfield in Syria, where Washington believes Tuesday's deadly attack was launched. / AFP PHOTO / JIM WATSON (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images) Is Trump’s Bold Syria Strike a Dangerous Miscalculation?
The president enforced the U.S. red line on chemical weapons, but this could all turn out very badly.
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mad vlad Kremlin Likens Trump Syria Strike to Iraq Invasion
Russian Foreign Ministry says strike decided on ahead of chemical attack.
