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Syrians wave the national flag and portraits of President Bashar Assad as they gather at the Omayyad Square in Damascus on Saturday to condemn the U.S.-led airstrikes. (Louai Beshara/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Russia calls Syria strikes ‘danger to world peace’ while U.S. allies praise attack

Russian officials condemned the U.S.-led airstrikes on three sites in Syria early Saturday.

8 years ago

The Damascus sky lights up missile fire as the U.S. launches an attack on Syria targeting different parts of the capital early Saturday, April 14, 2018. Syria's capital has been rocked by loud explosions that lit up the sky with heavy smoke as U.S. President Donald Trump announced airstrikes in retaliation for the country's alleged use of chemical weapons. (Hassan Ammar/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Explosions rock Syrian capital as Trump announces strikes

The U.S. president said the U.S. is prepared to "sustain" pressure on Assad.

8 years ago

A medical worker at a Damascus hospital holds a sign protesting a suspected chemical weapons attack outside the Syrian capital a year ago. The suspected attacks led the U.S. to fire a barrage of missiles at a Syrian air base on April 7, 2017. (Sameer Al-Doumy/AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

5 questions about Syria and chemical weapons

8 years ago

The White House can be seen through a fence
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Politics & Policy

History of U.S. responses to chemical weapons attacks in Syria

Here's some of the background.

8 years ago

President Donald Trump speaks in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House on Friday, April 13, 2018, in Washington, about the United States' military response to Syria's chemical weapon attack on April 7. (Susan Walsh/AP Photo)
NPR
Politics & Policy

U.S., allies hit 3 Syrian sites linked to chemical weapons program

Initial reports indicate the U.S. launched cruise missiles from ships in the Mediterranean Sea.

8 years ago

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, left, with Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Joseph Dunford, testify on the FY2019 budget during a hearing of the House Armed Services Committee on Capitol Hill, Thursday, April 12, 2018 in Washington. (Alex Brandon/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

Trump talks with allies, Britain and France, as he weighs Syria strike decision

The U.S., France and Britain have been in extensive consultations about launching a military strike as early as the end of this week

8 years ago

Smoke billows in Douma, Syria, on Saturday. The White House says President Trump is weighing military action following an alleged chemical attack in the town. (AFP/Getty Images)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Critics want legal rationale for strikes on Syria. The White House says it’s secret

The White House has a seven-page memo that may make the case.

8 years ago

A member of the National Guard checks on his colleague inside a Border Patrol Skybox near the U.S.-Mexico border in Hidalgo, Texas, in this 2011 photo. President Trump is calling for troops on the southern border, something the last five presidents have all done.
(Delcia Lopez/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

President Trump to sign proclamation to send National Guard troops to Mexican border

"We're going to do some things militarily," Trump said. "Until we can have a wall and proper security, we're going to be guarding our border with the military."

8 years ago

A U.S. soldier sits on an armored vehicle behind a sand barrier at a newly installed position near the tense front line between the U.S-backed Syrian Manbij Military Council and the Turkish-backed fighters, in Manbij, north Syria, Wednesday, April 4, 2018. A week ago, there was just a single house where U.S. soldiers had hoisted a U.S. flag on a hill a little ways back from a tense front line in Syria. Now on Wednesday stood a growing outpost with a perimeter of large sand barriers and barbed wire, a new watch tower and half a dozen armored vehicles, The Associated Press found. (Hussein Malla/AP Photo)
Politics & Policy

White House says Syria mission coming to ‘a rapid end’

There were clear signs the United States was narrowing its mission in Syria.

8 years ago

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin, center, arrives for a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, March 15, 2018. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Turmoil at Veterans Affairs

Guest: Leo Shane There’s been some turmoil at the Department of Veterans Affairs. David Shulkin, VA Secretary a ...

Air Date: April 2, 2018 10:20 am

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This Feb. 10, 2009 file photo shows some of the more than 1,100 old fuses and small anti-aircraft shells that have been found as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers searches for any remaining World War I era munitions along the Atlantic Ocean in Surf City, N.J. A century after World War I ended, munitions from that and other wars continue to surface on beaches around the United States, usually during beach replenishment projects when they are sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore onto the sand, or exposed by strong storms. (Mel Evans/AP Photo, File)
Community

A century after WWI, munitions still making way onto beaches

Items ranging from tiny fuses to full-scale mines are displaced by beach replenishment projects, sucked from the ocean floor and pumped ashore, or by strong storms.

8 years ago

Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin testifies before the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee on Sept. 27, 2017 in Washington, D.C.
NPR
Politics & Policy

Fired VA Secretary says White House muzzled him

Fired Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin tells NPR that political forces in the Trump administration want to privatize the VA — and he was standing in the way.

8 years ago

From right to left: Mike Pompeo, John Bolton, Gina Hapsel (credit: AP)
Radio Times
Politics & Policy

Trump taps new foreign policy team

Guests: Matthew Kroenig, Mitchell Plitnick President Trump has been shaking up his cabinet in recent weeks, and t ...

Air Date: March 29, 2018 10:00 am

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The Bastille Day festivities in Paris last summer gave President Trump the inspiration to call for a military parade in Washington. But the Pentagon says there will be no tanks in its parade in November. (Carolyn Kaster/AP)
NPR
Politics & Policy

Trump’s military parade is set for Veterans Day

The Pentagon says a military parade requested by President Trump will take place in Washington on Veterans Day.

8 years ago

A Navy fighter jet comes in for a landing on the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson in the South China Sea. (Anthony Kuhn/NPR)
NPR
Politics & Policy

The U.S. positions warships in tense Asia-Pacific waters

The Navy now has two fleets in the Western Pacific, as the United States shifts its priorities away from the Middle East to potential flashpoints in the Asia Pacific.

8 years ago

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