Topic: Syria
The Obama administration expressed doubt Monday that Syria was genuine in its promise to allow Arab observers to monitor a deal to end a nine-month protest crackdown that has killed over 5,000 people."A signature on a piece of paper from a regime ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House repeated on Thursday that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had lost his legitimacy to rule.President Barack Obama said earlier that Muammar Gaddafi's death showed that "the rule of an iron fist inevitably comes to an end."Asked whether ...
The Syrian opposition is becoming "more cohesive" and "more broadly representative" of the country as a whole, a US official said Friday.Mark Toner, the State Department's deputy spokesman, told CNN that a real opposition to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was beginning to ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States imposed new financial sanctions on Syria Wednesday and edged closer to issuing an explicit call for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down.With international pressure intensifying on Assad over his brutal crackdown on protests, one U.S. ...
Although the Assad regime in Syria has long been a thorn in Washington's side, the Obama administration is not yet ready to throw its lot in with anti-government protesters there, analysts said.The unrest gripping Syria comes as President Barack Obama pursues a ...
There is a saying, coined by former Senator Arthur Vandenberg, " There is a long list of mistakes one could discuss concerning the war in Iraq and a new list of progress being made, but not wholly reported, since the turn of ...
The Senate's delay in confirming US President Barack Obama's choices of ambassadors to Syria and Turkey "does have an impact" on US policy in the region, an Obama administration official said Monday.In February, Obama nominated career diplomat Robert Ford as the first ...
The Logan Act is a federal law that makes it a felony for any American citizen to attempt to negotiate with a foreign government or attempt to influence foreign policy without clear authority from the executive branch of the U.S. government. Congress ...
TALLINN (Reuters) - The United States defended its policy of engagement with Syria on Thursday despite its concerns that Damascus might be trying to transfer Scud missiles to Hezbollah guerrillas in Lebanon.Speaking in the Estonian capital ahead of a NATO meeting, Secretary ...
US President Barack Obama's administration has warned that "all options" are on the table if Syria supplied Scud missiles to Hezbollah but defended its pursuit of dialogue with Damascus.Israel believes that Syria has supplied Hezbollah with the ballistic missiles, which could dramatically ...
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