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Sep 29 2014
News
Obama admits ISIS threat was misjudged as U.S. splits emerge
A week after U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria began, lawmakers continued to question President Barack Obama's strategy for defeating the militant group ISIS, which he admitted in a televised interview Sunday was more powerful than the U.S. initially believed.
CNN DigitalSep 09 2013
Opinion
Why President Obama's Syria speech won't matter
Let's get one thing clear - President Barack Obama's upcoming media blitz to include interviews on six television networks and a primetime Oval Office address is not going to rally the public behind U.S.-led airstrikes in Syria.
PoliticoSep 10 2014
News
Obama ready to strike at Islamic State militants in Syria, he tells policy experts
President Obama is prepared to use U.S. military airstrikes in Syria as part of an expanded campaign to defeat the Islamic State and does not believe he needs formal congressional approval to take that action, according to people who have spoken with the president in recent days.
Washington PostMay 21 2021
Analysis
EXPLAINER: What was the outcome of the latest Gaza war?
The cease-fire that took effect Friday appears to have halted 11 days of fighting between Israel and Gaza’s militant Hamas rulers, without resolving any of the underlying issues in the decades-old Middle East conflict.
Almost no one on either side expects this war — which was triggered by protests and clashes in Jerusalem — will be the last.
Israel carried out hundreds of
Associated PressAug 26 2014
News
US begins surveillance flights over Syria after Obama authorization
The U.S. has started flying surveillance drones over Syria after President Obama authorized the missions, two senior Defense officials told Fox News, in a move that could pave the way for eventual airstrikes against Islamic State targets in the country.
Fox News DigitalNov 16 2012
News
Israeli military confirms rocket fired from Gaza strikes outside Jerusalem
A temporary truce between Israel and Gaza militants during a visit by Egyptian Prime Minister Hesham Kandil quickly crumbled Friday, as Palestinians lobbed rockets as far north as Jerusalem and Israeli aircraft responded to the barrage with renewed airstrikes.
Washington PostJun 12 2014
News
U.S. Said to Rebuff Iraqi Request to Strike Militants
As the threat from Sunni militants in western Iraq escalated last month, Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki secretly asked the Obama administration to consider carrying out airstrikes against extremist staging areas, according to Iraqi and American officials.
Allysia Finley (Wall Street Journal)Sep 05 2013
Opinion
What Sir William Would Do in Syria
THE use of nerve gas in Syria is abhorrent, and those within the Syrian military command who ordered it are war criminals. But it is folly to think that airstrikes can be limited: they are ill-conceived as punishment, fail to protect civilians and, most important, hinder peacemaking.
New York Times (News)Nov 12 2015
News
Iraqi Kurds reach Sinjar road, cutting IS supply line
Kurdish Iraqi fighters, backed by U.S.-led airstrikes, launched a major assault Thursday aiming to retake the strategic town of Sinjar, which the Islamic State group overran last year in an onslaught that caused the flight of tens of thousands of Yazidis and first prompted the United States to launch the air campaign against the militants.
TownhallJan 30 2016
News
Bernie's foreign policy deficit
Not long after President Barack Obama ordered U.S. airstrikes in Libya in 2011, his national security adviser, Tom Donilon, trekked to Capitol Hill to brief Democratic senators. After a few minutes of discussion about the military operation, Bernie Sanders took the floor. To talk about the economy.
Politico