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Obama wins backing for Syria strike from key figures in Congress

YoopyaSep 4, 2013May 1, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama won the backing of key figures in the U.S. Congress, including Republicans, in his call for limited U.S. strikes on Syria to punish President

As Obama pushes to punish Syria, lawmakers fear deep U.S. involvement

YoopyaSep 3, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s efforts to persuade the U.S. Congress to back his plan to attack Syria were met with skepticism on Monday from lawmakers in his own

Analysis: Putin sees chance to turn tables on Obama at G20

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – Less than three months after Vladimir Putin was cast as a pariah over Syria at the last big meeting of world leaders, the Russian president

Obama and aides confront skeptical Congress on Syria strike

YoopyaSep 2, 2013April 7, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama and his top aides launched a full-scale political offensive on Sunday to persuade a skeptical Congress to approve a military

Putin says would be ‘utter nonsense’ for Assad to use chemical arms

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Russia’s President Vladimir Putin said on Saturday it would be “utter nonsense” for the Syrian government to use chemical weapons when it was

Sixth U.S. ship now in eastern Mediterranean ‘as precaution’

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – A sixth U.S. warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five U.S. destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be

International weapons experts leave Syria, U.S. prepares attack

YoopyaAug 31, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – U.N. experts left Syria on Saturday after investigating a poison gas attack that killed hundreds of civilians, and the United States said it was planning

France says ready to punish Syria despite British no vote

YoopyaAug 30, 2013April 21, 20240

(Reuters) – France said on Friday it still backed action to punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government for an apparent poison gas attack on civilians, despite a

Russia sends warships to Mediterranean as Syria tension rises

YoopyaAug 29, 2013April 14, 20240

(Reuters) – Russia is sending two warships to the east Mediterranean, Interfax news agency said on Thursday, but Moscow denied this meant it was beefing up its

Obama makes case for punishing Syria, but possible delays loom

YoopyaAug 29, 2013May 1, 20240

(Reuters) – President Barack Obama made the case on Wednesday for a limited military strike againstSyria in response to last week’s chemical weapons attack even as he faced