Celebrities Are Finally Speaking Out On Syria — Bashing And Applauding Obama...
Until recently, most celebrities were staying quiet on the subject of Syria.TV legend Ed Asner told The Hollywood Reporter he believes it's because "A lot of people don't want to feel anti-black by...
View Article110,000 DEAD IN SYRIA: Here's A Look At Who Has Been Killed
The Syrian war has been going on for 2½ years.The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) — which relies on a network of activists, doctors and lawyers throughout Syria — says that 110,371 people...
View ArticleUS Meeting With Russia To Make Sure This 'Disarm Syria' Thing Isn't A Joke
GENEVA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry flew into Geneva on Thursday to hear Russia's plans to disarm Syria of its chemical weapons and avert U.S.-led military strikes, an initiative that...
View ArticleThe White House Isn't Taking The Bait On Vladimir Putin's Lecture In The New...
The White House is sticking on message in response to a New York Times op-ed from Russian President Vladimir Putin — one that challenged the U.S.'s claim that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is...
View ArticleSENATOR: 'I Almost Wanted To Vomit' When I Read Vladimir Putin's Op-Ed
Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he "almost wanted to vomit" after reading Russian President Vladimir Putin's terse New York Times op-ed Wednesday...
View ArticleAssad Confirms Chemical Handover Plan, Says US Threat Had Nothing To Do With it
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syria decided to cede control of its chemical weapons because of a Russian proposal and not the threat of U.S. military intervention, Interfax news agency quoted President Bashar...
View ArticleIn 1999, Vladimir Putin Wrote A NYT Op-Ed With A Very Different Take On...
The big talk of today is Russian President Vladimir Putin's surprising (and to some people, sickening) New York Times op-ed that stands against U.S. military intervention in Syria.But this isn't...
View ArticlePutin and Assad Have Presented The West With An Impossible Ultimatum
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad told Russian news agency RIA Novosti that Syria will not fulfill a chemical weapons initiative unless the U.S. stops threatening to strike Syria and "ceases arms...
View ArticleVladimir Putin's 21 Most Provocative Quotes
Never mind Bashar al-Assad, Syria’s diabolical dictator: Consider this combustible quote on Wednesday from Syria’s staunchest ally, Russia’s president Vladimir Putin, writing in The New York Times,...
View ArticleCongressional Sources Cast Doubt On Number Killed In Syrian Chemical Weapons...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by the Obama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which...
View ArticleNow It Looks Like The White House May Have Overestimated Syrian Gas Deaths
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One of the most precise and dramatic details cited by theObama administration as proof that Syrian forces used chemical weapons in an August 21 attack was the death toll, which...
View ArticleWhat Putin Understands That Most Americans Don't
Here is a reaction to the Putin op-ed on Syria, and resulting flap, from a reader who was born in the Ukraine, came to the U.S. as a child, and is now an American citizen living in California. I think...
View ArticleKERRY: Syria Peace Prospects Ride On Chemical Weapons Talks
Kerry says the future of Syria peace talks depends on outcome of chemical weapons dealGENEVA (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that...
View ArticleWall Street Journal: Elite Syrian Army Unit Scattering Chemical Weapons Sites
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An elite Syrian unit that runs the government's chemical arms program has been scattering the weapons to dozens of sites across the country, potentially complicating U.S. plans...
View ArticleHere Are All The Reasons Why The Syria Chemical Weapons Agreement Won't Work
On Friday U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said that any international peace deal ending the civil war now relies on Russia's proposal to place Syria's...
View ArticleUN SECRETARY GENERAL: Syria Report Will Be 'Overwhelming' And Confirm...
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Friday that a U.N. report due out Monday will be "overwhelming" and confirm that chemical weapons were used during an Aug. 21 attack."I believe that...
View ArticleDictators Never Looked So Good
Vladimir Putin is saving the United States from another Mideast military intervention. Bashar al-Assad promises to ‘thin the herd’ of jihadists and hold Syria together. And Egypt’s new strongman,...
View ArticleVladimir Putin Is 'Basking In The Glory Of Having Flipped The Diplomatic...
Vladimir Putin had had enough.The Russian president spent far too long absorbing criticism from the United States on everything from human rights to his country’s foreign policy.It’s no wonder, then,...
View ArticleJohn McCain Prepares To Troll Vladimir Putin In A Russian Newspaper
On Thursday night, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) joked to CNN's Jake Tapper that he would love to write an op-ed for Pravda, a Russian publication, to respond to Russian President Vladimir Putin's op-ed...
View ArticleUS AND RUSSIA AGREE ON SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS DEAL
Washington and Moscow have agreed a deal to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday after talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov."Providing this...
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