WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump’s longtime aide Hope Hicks is declining to answer questions about her time in the White House in a closed-door interview Tuesday with the House intelligence committee. The panel is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 … Read More
What’s happening in Ghouta is a war crime. A blood orgy orchestrated by Bashar al-Assad, a modern-day Caligula figure, and his criminal patrons in Iran and Russia. More than 500 men, women and children have been killed since last week in the … Read More
A man walks next to damaged buildings following air strikes today in the rebel-held town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta The German and French leaders have urged Russia to exert “maximum pressure” on Syria for an “immediate” implementation of a UN ceasefire … Read More
The demise of Isis threatens yet more dangerous times to come. The carnage caused by Bashar al-Assad’s forces in El Ghouta has been of a more savage intensity even than the siege of Aleppo © EPA Please use the sharing … Read More
Editor’s Note: Scott Jennings, a CNN contributor, is a former special assistant to President George W. Bush and former campaign adviser to Sen. Mitch McConnell. He is a partner at RunSwitch Public Relations in Louisville, Kentucky. Follow him on Twitter @ScottJenningsKY. … Read More
The Trump administration should publicly warn Russia and Iran that the United States will respond forcefully to future threats in Syria. The February 10 military clash between Iran and Israel ushered in a new phase of the Syrian war. Iran … Read More
As special counsel Robert Mueller builds his case, relatives of former national security adviser Michael Flynn are among those pressing the president to use his unique legal power and ‘put these defendants out of their misery.’ Former national security … Read More
If finally happened… In accordance with an energy cooperation framework agreement signed in late January, Russia will have exclusive rights to produce oil and gas in Syria. The agreement goes significantly beyond that, stipulating the modalities of the rehabilitation of … Read More
BEIRUT—On the day Syrian anti-aircraft missiles downed an American-made Israeli F-16 fighter jet, a banner boasting of the feat in both Arabic and Hebrew script went up in a village in southern Lebanon. To the northeast, loyalists of Bashar al-Assad, … Read More
VLADIMIR Putin’s latest anti-missile system – designed to protect the Kremlin and key Moscow installations from enemy strikes – has been successfully tested, say Russia’s defense ministry. Spectacular footage shows the tests at the Sary-Shagan range in Kazakhstan, just days … Read More