Latest "Syria" stories

Senators want to block Turkey F-16 sale until NATO expansion succeeds

Senators won't greenlight the F-16 sale unless Turkey allows Sweden and Finland into NATO. And at least one is calling for sanctions over the impasse.

By Bryant Harris

2 days ago

Trump triggers another resignation after sudden Syria policy shift

Brett McGurk, the U.S. envoy to the global coalition fighting the Islamic State group, has resigned in protest over President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria.

4 years ago

Trump’s Syria withdrawal flies in the face of statements from top military and national security leaders

Many top officials see the current Syria operations as necessary to ensure ISIS defeat.

4 years ago

Woodward book says John Kelly privately called President Trump an ‘idiot’

An upcoming book by journalist Bob Woodward says President Donald Trump’s chief of staff privately called Trump an “idiot” and aides plucked sensitive documents off the president’s desk to keep him from taking rash actions.

4 years ago

Trump questions US intel, not Putin, on Russia 2016 meddling

Standing next to Russia’s Vladimir Putin, President Donald Trump openly questioned his own intelligence agencies' conclusions that Moscow was to blame for meddling in the 2016 U.S. election to Trump’s benefit and seemed to accept Putin’s insistence that Russia’s hands were clean.

By Jonathan Lemire, The Associated Press and Jill Colvin, The Associated Press

5 years ago

Why the DOJ says Trump was justified in Syria airstrikes

The U.S. Justice Department's findings have drawn immediate criticism from multiple lawmakers.

5 years ago