Tag: Syria

US forces in southern Syria came under attack by Islamic State militants around midnight local time on Saturday, joining with local partner forces to repel the assault in an hours-long fight that required multiple airstrikes and left three US-backed Syrian fighters dead. US special-operations advisers were on the ground near the al-Tanf border crossing when […]

While American Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visits Moscow this week, the Kremlin and the White House continue to exchange jabs in the media over the chemical weapon attack in Syria last Tuesday, and the resulting American military action taken against Assad’s regime on Thursday. White House spokesman Sean Spicer once again voiced the concerns […]

In the minds of many, President Trump’s decision to use a Tomahawk missile strike against Assad’s Syrian regime last week was not only meant as a message to Assad about his use of chemical weapons, but as a message to all world leaders that the United States would take decisive action if provoked – and […]

If you read my previous post on The Case for Intervention in Syria, you have the commonly-ignored information necessary to understand the Syrian situation. What follows are the three reasons that it’s in our national interest to intervene in Syria, and the way forward in that country Deter chemical warfare use Deterring chem use is […]

Aircraft from either the Syrian or Russian air force dropped incendiary bombs on civilian targets in two Syrian provinces Monday, the Observatory for Human Rights reports. The attack comes fresh off considerable international attention on the Syrian Civil War following the American cruise missile attack on a Syrian military airfield on Friday. That attack was in […]

Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven (G7) major industrialized nations met in Italy on Monday, looking to put pressure on Russia to break its ties with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. In a shift in Washington’s strategy, U.S. missiles hit a Syrian air base last week in retaliation for what the United States and its […]

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson arrived in Moscow on Tuesday for what promises to be a difficult series of scheduled talks with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.  While tensions between the two nations have been high in recent years, a chemical weapons attack carried out against civilians last Tuesday led to dramatic military action […]

Russia sent two corvettes, an oiler, and a tug boat to the Eastern Mediterranean off the coast of Syria days after two US Navy ships fired 59 cruise missiles at an airfield controlled by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, a defense official told the US Naval Institute. The ships should reach the area within the next […]

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis says the Syrian regime would be “ill-advised” to use chemical weapons in the future, foreshadowing a potentially greater US response than the cruise missile strike that was carried out last week. Mattis said in a statement that the strike, which consisted of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles targeting the Shayrat air field on […]

Last week’s dramatic events in Syria, that began with a chemical weapons attack that left dozens dead and culminated in an American missile strike on an air force base belonging to the Syrian government, were watched with bated breath by people all over the world as they tried to extrapolate just what this turn of […]

The Pentagon has announced that a US Army Special Forces operator was killed in action on Saturday conducting counter-terrorism operations. The soldier, who hasn’t been identified yet pending notification of next of kin was the first US combat death in Afghanistan in 2017. Since the US has ceased major combat operations in Afghanistan in 2014 […]

Islamic State militants launched two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at least 12 dead in the fighting and many wounded, rebel sources said on Sunday. They said eight Islamic State fighters and four of their own men died. An attack at midnight on a heavily defended base near […]