U.S. officials have been pushing their Hungarian counterparts to robustly condemn the use of chemical weapons by the Bashar al-Assad regime. Hungary’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs had issued a statement condemning the use of chemical weapons in general, and welcoming an investigation to find out “who was responsible for this...

Bipartisan endorsements for President Barack Obama’s request for an authorization to use military force against Syria’s Bashar al-Assad regime trickled in through most of the morning. On the Senate side, the president met with Republican Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham. McCain subsequently declared that he had not made up...

Amid frustration at an inevitable Russian or Chinese veto of robust UN action targeting Syria in the aftermath of a mass chemical attack by the regime against opposition-controlled Damascus suburbs, the White House today pressed its case regarding potential military action. Criticism of the international bloc’s role in shielding the...

Top administration officials declared today that they are committed to acting alone if necessary in striking the Bashar al-Assad regime, after a vote last night in Britain’s House of Commons saw the body rejecting Prime Minister David Cameron’s request to endorse British military action against Damascus. President Barack Obama pressed the U.S. case, and...

The sectarian conflict in Syria long ago drove the Sunni-dominated Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) to align itself against Iran and its proxies and allies throughout the Middle East, most prominently the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria and Hezbollah in Lebanon. Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal last June accused Damascus...

Middle East instability has endangered the United Nations peacekeeping force in southern Lebanon, where sectarian violence and threats from Hezbollah have created a situation in which contributors are withdrawing their troops. The deepening regional chaos has similarly undermined the U.N. force patrolling the Israeli-Syrian border (UNDOF), where multiple have attacks...