Tag: Syria

As Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told U.S. lawmakers that evidence shows the government of Syria used sarin nerve gas on its own people, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un exchanged pleasantries with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad.  The Korean Central News Agency

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com S. Korea sets deadline for N. Korea on Kaesong Industrial Complex U.S. says Syria has used chemical weapons twice China’s Uighur violence may be related to East Turkestan Islamic Movement U.N. Security Council approves

Joining Senate Republicans John McCain and Lindsey Graham Thursday, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), the powerful chairwoman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, released a statement that bluntly accused the Syrian regime of crossing President Obama’s “red line” with its use of

Thursday morning, the Associated Press reported that newly-installed Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel told a group of reporters in Abu Dhabi that it was likely that the current Syrian regime had used chemical weapons on a “small scale,” adding, “It violates

(AP) Hagel: Syria has used chemical weaponsBy ROBERT BURNSAP National Security WriterABU DHABI, United Arab EmiratesDefense Secretary Chuck Hagel says the Syrian regime has likely used chemical weapons on a “small scale.” Hagel was speaking to reporters in Abu Dhabi.

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang province Will Thursday be the day for a North Korean missile test? Syria’s opposition scorns Obama over chemical weapons commitment Ethnic violence kills 21 in China’s Xinjiang

Secretary of State John Kerry broke with some of his peers Wednesday and asserted the elder suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing was radicalized in Chechnya then came back to America “to kill.” Speaking in Brussels, Kerry made this comment in

In Wednesday’s USA Today, Oren Dorell offers a substantive piece of reporting on the Boston mosque attended by the Tsarnaev brothers, the suspects in last Monday’s Boston Marathon bombings. In this dangerous age of political correctness, Dorell’s reporting is surprisingly

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com Russia’s Vladimir Putin warns of ‘alarming signals’ of economic slowdown Boston bombers raise new problems for Russian officials Canada thwarts al-Qaeda inspired plan to attack passenger train Lebanon Salafists call for jihad against Hizbollah

(AP) Kerry attends first NATO foreign ministers meetingBRUSSELSForeign ministers from the 28 NATO countries are meeting in Brussels to discuss the wars in Syria and Afghanistan, and to learn the views of a new member of their club _ U.S.

I interviewed former Deputy National Security Advisor Elliot Abrams on my show, Secure Freedom Radio, this morning. He observed that Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir of Qatar, will shortly be visiting the White House.  Instead of the red

This morning’s key headlines from GenerationalDynamics.com North Korea positions two more missile launchers on east coast Hunger strike at Guantanamo grows among prisoners The assumptions for the Cyprus bailout are ‘patently ridiculous’ Heavier fighting flares on the Syria / Lebanon

Addressing the nation on Friday evening about the actions of the Boston terrorists, President Barack Obama posed the question “why.”  After all, the suspects had been direct beneficiaries of American largesse, including a successful asylum application, a green card and

(AFP) – Syria’s main opposition National Coalition said on Saturday that Russia was “out of step” with history for backing President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and was isolating itself on the international scene. “Russia is keeping up a foreign policy that

(AP) – Syrian troops backed by pro-government gunmen advanced during fierce battles with rebels on Saturday capturing at least one village in a strategic area in Homs province near the Lebanese border, activists and state media in Damascus reported. The

A split between Britain and France on the one side and the United States on the other regarding sending military aid to opposition forces in Syria may be widening due to a report Britain and France gave to the United

While police in and around Boston hunt for 19-year-old Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, one of the suspected Boston Marathon bombers, information gathered from various social media outlets indicate that he and his brother, 26-year-old Tamerlan Tsarnaev, harbored radical Islamic beliefs. Tamerlan Tsarnaev was killed

Four senior U.S. intelligence officials say there are “increasing suspicions” the Assad regime has used “small amounts of chemical weapons” during recent fighting. Their suspicions are shared by British officials who say that “witness accounts and preliminary testing” show that

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