Chemical Weapons

Summer Zervos and Donald Trump.

Tulsi Gabbard: ‘Assad is not the enemy of the United States’

Caitlin Yilek · February 6, 2019 9:56 pm

John Bolton: Chemical weapons from Syria will be met with ‘very strong response’

Kimberly Leonard · January 5, 2019 6:31 pm

President Trump speaks to the National Republican Congressional Committee March Dinner at the National Building Museum, Tuesday, March 20, 2018, in Washington.

Beltway Confidential

Trump’s stated distrust of US intelligence gives free reign to Russian mischief

Erin Dunne · November 25, 2018 1:53 pm

United Nations Special Envoy Staffan de Mistura speaks at a Security Council meeting, Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018 at U.N. headquarters.

Beltway Confidential

Man resigns from world’s most impossible job: Fixing Syria

Daniel DePetris · October 19, 2018 6:35 pm

President Trump delivers a statement on Pastor Andrew Brunson after landing at an airport.

National Security

DOJ: Former Navy sailor threatened Trump, 5 other top administration officials with ricin

Anna Giaritelli · October 18, 2018 10:59 pm

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt talk together at the White House.

Beltway Confidential

Winston Churchill, and how America (not the Soviet Union) won freedom from the Nazis

Tom Rogan · October 8, 2018 9:26 pm

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov attends a meeting in Moscow, Russia.

Russia worried it could take the blame for biological attack by the West

Joel Gehrke · September 26, 2018 6:39 pm

A marine officer of the Cape Ray, a ship equipped to neutralize Syrian chemicals, shows a chemical protection suit to reporters, during a tour around the ship docked at the naval base of Rota used by the U.S, in Spainâs southwestern coast on Thursday, April 10, 2014. The American ship MV Cape Ray will collect and destroy mustard gas, raw materials for sarin nerve gas and tons of other highly toxic chemicals that form part of Syriaâs chemical weapons program. If Syria can remove all its ingredients for making poison gas and nerve agent from the country by the end of the month, an ambitious June 30 deadline for destroying the chemicals should be met, a spokesman for the world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday.

HHS searches for treatment for mustard gas

Robert King · September 24, 2018 5:40 pm

U.S. President Donald Trump, right, stands with British Prime Minister Theresa May, left, at Chequers, in Buckinghamshire, England, Friday, July 13, 2018.

Theresa May says she trusts Trump

Anna Giaritelli · September 24, 2018 2:25 pm

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo speaks during a media availability with South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha at the State Department, Friday, May 11, 2018 in Washington.

Mike Pompeo: If chemical weapons used in Syria, US will ‘go to the source of the bad behavior’

Caitlin Yilek · September 23, 2018 2:58 pm

The U.S. has good reasons to deter Bashar Assad from future attacks. (Syrian Presidency Facebook page via AP, File)

Russia: ‘Evil’ for West to deny Assad reconstruction aid

Joel Gehrke · September 22, 2018 4:26 pm

Israeli soldier guides a mobile artillery piece the near the border with Syria in the Israeli-controlled Golan Heights, Wednesday, July 25, 2018.

Averting a humanitarian disaster: Israel’s involvement in Syria is no longer just about its own security

Washington Examiner · September 13, 2018 4:00 am