Syria

Latest Stories

Syrian President Bashar Assad gestures during an interview with the BBC, in Damascus, Syria, in this Tuesday, Feb. 10, 2015, file photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA. (AP Photo/SANA, File)

Bashar Assad, Syrian president, contradicts Moscow, says Russia supplying weapons since 2011

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz (right) quickly put together a coalition last week to raid Yemen by air and position forces for an incursion by land. The regime has told President Obama that it simply will not tolerate an Iranian puppet state on its border. (Associated Press)

Arab allies wage war in Yemen with U.S. weapons, without American leadership

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE- In this Friday, March 1, 2013 file photo, anti-Syrian President Bashar Assad protesters hold the Jabhat al-Nusra flag, as they shout slogans during a demonstration, at Kafranbel town, in Idlib province, northern Syria. The Nusra Front, Syria's al-Qaida affiliate, is consolidating power in territory stretching from the Turkish border to central and southern Syria, crushing moderate opponents and forcibly converting minorities using tactics akin to its ultraconservative rival, the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File)

Al Qaeda in Syria seizes large parts of northern city

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

FBI director James Comey gestures during a news conference at FBI headquarters in Washington, Wednesday, March 25, 2015, after the release of the 9/11 Review Commission report. The report says the FBI must speed up the pace of its improvements to deal with the evolving terrorist threat around the world. The group was established last year to measure how well the FBI had followed an earlier set of recommendations in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terror attacks. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)

Intel community wary of Islamic State influence on U.S. citizens

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

A Houthi Shiite rebel with Yemen's flag painted on his face chants slogans during a rally to show support for the leader of rebels, Abdel-Malik al-Houthi, in Sanaa, Yemen. (Associated Press)

Yemen chaos leaves U.S. intelligence in dark on al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula

By Guy Taylor - The Washington Times

Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former CIA director. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Michael Hayden, ex-CIA director: U.S. looks like a nation ‘in retreat’ combating Islamic terrorists

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

In this Oct. 22, 2014, file photo, thick smoke from an airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition rises in Kobani, Syria, as seen from a hilltop on the outskirts of Suruc, at the Turkey-Syria border. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis, File)

Syria Kurds yet to be fully embraced by U.S. in anti-IS fight

By Ryan Lucas - Associated Press

FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2014 file photo, a hostage runs to armed tactical response police officers for safety after she escaped from a cafe under siege at Martin Place in the central business district of Sydney, Australia. For a country of just 24 million that is thousands of miles from Syria and Iraq, Australia has been unusually fertile ground for Islamic State recruiters. (AP Photo/Rob Griffith, File)

Australia a puzzling hotbed of Islamic State recruiting

By ROD McGUIRK - Associated Press

This undated image shows a frame from a video released Friday, Oct. 3, 2014, by Islamic State militants that purports to show the militant who beheaded of taxi driver Alan Henning . Mohammed Emwazi has been identified by news organizations as the masked militant more commonly known as "Jihadi John." A former hostage who had been held in Syria by Islamic State extremists has described mock executions and other forms of psychological torture. Spanish journalist Javier Espinosa wrote in the Sunday Times Sunday March 15, 2015 that militant Mohammed Emwazi played a lead role in the mock executions. Emwazi is the Londoner nicknamed Jihadi John who has played a central role in a series of beheading videos made in Syria. (AP Photo) — FILE

Islamic State chemical attack possible at home, U.S. officials say

By Maggie Ybarra - The Washington Times

Members of Peace Brigades, a Shiite militia group loyal to Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, heading to Tikrit, where Iraqi troops backed by Shiite fighters and Iranian advisers are fighting extremists, sit with their weapons in an armored vehicle as they leave Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, March 15, 2015. Dozens of fighters with the militia loyal to the radical Shiite cleric left Iraq's capital Sunday to take part in an offensive to capture Tikrit from the Islamic State group. (AP Photo/Karim Kadim)

Global war will result in ‘banner of Islam’ over White House: Khamenei aide

By Rowan Scarborough - The Washington Times

FILE - In this March 13, 2015 file photo, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry speaks to a meeting of the American Chamber of Commerce in Egypt in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. In an interview with CBS News, Kerry said the U.S. is pushing for Syrian President Bashar Assad to seriously discuss a transition strategy to quell the Arab country's four-year civil war. (AP Photo/Brian Snyder, Pool, File)

CLAUDE SALHANI: Kerry throws Assad a major victory

By Claude Salhani

In this Sept. 23, 2014, file photo, Army Lt. Gen. William Mayville Jr., director of Operations J-3, speaks about the operations in Syria, during a news conference at the Pentagon. The U.S. military has hit as many as 17 separate targets connected to an al Qaeda cell in Syria known as the Khorasan Group, U.S. officials say. It’s part of an ongoing and little-discussed air campaign aimed at disrupting the group’s capacity to plot attacks against Western aviation. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)

U.S. unclear on impact of bombing on al Qaeda group in Syria

By Ken Dilanian and Lolita C. Baldor - Associated Press

Iraqi fighters chant slogans against extremists at the front line during a battle against Islamic State militants in Tikrit, 130 kilometers (80 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Monday, March 16, 2015. The offensive to retake Saddam Hussein&#8217;s hometown of Tikrit began March 2. The city is one of the largest held by the Islamic State militants on the road connected Baghdad and Mosul. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed)

Kurds probe 2 possible Islamic State chemical weapon attacks

By Maeva Bambuck and Sinan Salaheddin - Associated Press

Russian President Vladimir Putin holds a terrestrial globe, with Russian territory colored pink, seemingly including Crimea, presented to him as a gift during his meeting with participants in the youth educational forum at the Seliger youth camp near Lake Seliger, Russia, in this August 2014 file photo. As world leaders gather at the U.N., during the week of Sept. 22, 2014, the U.S. and its European allies are consumed by efforts to blunt the savage advance of the Islamic State group, to end the raging Ebola epidemic and to make progress in nuclear negotiations with Iran. That’s likely just fine with Putin, since these issues distract from Russia’s presence in neighboring Ukraine. (AP Photo/RIA-Novosti, Presidential Press Service, Mikhail Klimentyev, Pool, File)

KIM HOLMES: Russia’s, Obama’s endgame in Iran nuclear talks

By Kim R. Holmes

Illustration on Russian inroads to the Middle East by Alexander Hunter/The Washington Times

HERBERT LONDON, RADEK LAKOMY: Vladimir Putin fills Obama void in Middle East

By Herbert London and Radek Lakomy

The Mueller family is seen during the memorial service for Kayla Mueller in the Yavapai College Performance Hall Saturday, March 7, 2015 in Prescott, Ariz. (AP Photo/The Daily Courier, Les Stukenberg)

Obama meets parents of Kayla Mueller

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

This May 12, 2014, file photo taken from video by Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist network shows their leader Abubakar Shekau speaking to the camera. (AP Photo/File)

Islamic State group accepts Boko Haram pledge of allegiance

By Zeina Karam - Associated Press

FILE - In this Jan. 8, 2015 file photo French riot officers patrol in Longpont, north of Paris, France. EU interior ministers meeting in Brussels on Thursday, March 12, 2015, were to be asked to decide that the passports of everyone leaving or entering the 26-nation Schengen area should be checked against databases to ensure they are not stolen, forged or void. The EU made fighting terrorism a top priority after the Jan. 7-9 attacks in Paris that claimed 17 victims. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

EU ministers beef up anti-terror measures

By JOHN-THOR DAHLBURG - Associated Press