Trump questions the utility or benefit of American in the world and, most recently, ordered hasty withdrawal of troops from Syria, including in this speech.. ..…

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Thursday accused Barack Obama of sowing chaos by abandoning Middle East to Islamist militants and Iranian influence in blistering critique of the president's policies even as Pompeo's boss, President Donald Trump, moves to pull American troops out of Syria.. ... ..…

the terrorists are nowhere to be found, except for the terrorists we've been using to attempt to overthrow the government of Bashar Assad, the sadistic nerve-gassing Monster of Syria. ..…

Pompeo's speech came on the leg of Mideast tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that Trump administration is not walking away from the confusion and concern over plans to withdraw U.S forces from Syria.. ... Pompeo blamed the administration's approach to Mideast for the ills that..…

The Israeli prime minister asks visiting US National Security Adviser John Bolton to recognize Syria’s Golan Heights as Israeli territory. . ... Syria has repeatedly reaffirmed its sovereignty over the Golan Heights, saying the territory must be completely restored to its control. . ..…

Former US Defense Secretary: Trump’s Syria Policy “Confusing, Chaotic, Dangerous” . ... Turkey Says US Having Problems in Syria Withdrawal: “Hand in Glove with Terror Groups” . ..…

Turkish-trained imams, speaking in Turkish, necessarily focus on issues related to Turkey, some of which – the domestic politics of Erdogan, the war in Syria, the Kurdish issue – are deeply controversial among Germans, Muslim or not. There has been some reporting that suggests newer Arab arrivals..…

Speaking Cairo Pompeo declared that the US is still open to Syria, and he hoped that Trump wo not have to... Trump declared IS defeated and the US mission Syria accomplished December, and announced that the roughly 2,000 US troops there would be brought home. ..…

Most recently, he announced U.S. military withdrawal from Syria, generating considerable pushback from the foreign policy mandarin class. ... His decision to remove troops from Syria has already been modified by members of his own administration, with National Security Advisor John Bolton..…

Mattis and McGurk denounced Trump for betraying Kurdish-led Syrian Defense Force, and failing to finish the war against ISIS, while it lost its Raqqa,  still retains over 30,000 soldiers in Iraq and Syria.. ..…

The 100 witnesses invited to testify include four French journalists who say they were held captive in Syria by one of the perpetrators. ..…

Some are political refugees (and their children) from Syria and Iran and the like. ..…

Then came the stunning announcement by National Security Advisor John Bolton declaring that no U.S troops would be withdrawn from Syria. ..…

Pompeo's speech came on the leg of Mideast tour aimed at reassuring America's Arab partners that Trump administration is not walking away from the confusion and concern over plans to withdraw U.S forces from Syria.. ... Pompeo blamed the administration's approach to Mideast for the ills that..…

Russian and Iranian soldiers gave their lives to prevent Syria collapsing into Islamist and Russia's Syria goes some way towards wiping away the nation's painful memories of its Afghanistan during the 1980s when it failed to prevent the US backed Islamic extremists from taking control of..…

While Pompeo was clear that America is not abandoning its allies—a concern raised multiple times during his weeklong jaunt through the region amid the administration's surprise decision to withdraw from Syria—the secretary of state made clear that allies must step up to the plate in ways more..…

But, above all, Israel has much thornier issues to take up with Moscow, such as the restrictions Russians have clamped down on Israeli air strikes against Iranian targets Syria.  ..…

The latest state violence in the Eastern Province came as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was conducting his eight-nation tour of the Middle East aimed at shoring up Washington’s anti-Iranian axis in the wake of President Donald Trump’s announcement of a planned Syria troop withdrawal, whose..…

And, he has given the use of chemical weapons by Assad as reason for regime change and for being Syria. ..…

Rape, forced marriage and abduction have become standard tactics in conflicts from Syria to Yemen, and from Democratic Republic of Congo, to Nigeria, South Sudan and Myanmar.. ... In Syria, between January and September, the UN verified the killing of 870 children the number ever in the..…