The UAE’s interventionist foreign policy, backing Assad in Syria and the RSF in Sudan, has backfired, damaging its global ...

President Donald Trump signed an executive order lifting most US sanctions on Syria this week, cementing a sea change in his ...

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FILE – In this Sept. 10, 2013 file-pool photo, President Barack Obama suspends the threat of military action with the hope of a diplomatic solution as he works to strip Syria of its chemical ...

So, too, does the larger Syria-policy conundrum. Peter Beinart: Trump’s “conventional” approach to Syria For six years, the Obama administration wrestled painfully and unsuccessfully with Syria.

Former President Barack Obama's trusted and long-time adviser Ben Rhodes has given a detailed account of the administration's most embarrassing foreign policy blunder — the Syrian "red line ...

Obama's critics regard his foreign policy legacy on Syria ultimately as a failure after years of painstaking diplomacy on the part of his Secretary of State John Kerry and several broken ceasefires.

WASHINGTON --President Obama said the U.S. would’ve had to be “all in and willing to take over Syria” for him to intervene more forcefully in the country’s civil war. During his nationally ...

The fall of the last rebel-held areas in the Syrian city of Aleppo could seal the fate of the "Obama Doctrine," deepening the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in decades and staining U.S ...

Instead, much of the tragedy in Syria can be directly attributed to half-measures of US policy, a further result of Obama’s unwavering refusal to directly commit support to the besieged nation.

President Obama is pursuing two different strategies in two halves of Syria. One is working; the other is not. He’s making progress in eastern Syria, where the United States is leading an ...