Syria
President Obama will address the nation Tuesday night to make his case for military action against Syria's regime which is believed to have used chemical weapons against its civilians and rebel forces on August 21st.
PBS will air Charlie Rose's exclusive interview with Syrian president Bashar al-Assad on Sept. 9 at 9 p.m. In the interview, Assad denies his involvement in the deadly chemical weapons attack that left more than one thousand Syrians dead.
In the wake of two-and-a-half years of bloody conflict, Syrians are being displaced in droves. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), approximately 5 million Syrians have been uprooted from their homes internally and another 2 million have fled the country for the safety of a better life abroad. Considering that the entire country's population is only 23 million, that's an enormous number of refugees.
Recent polls show that President Obama faces an uphill battle in making the case for U.S. military action in Syria as more Americans oppose conducting military airstrikes against Syria in response to reports that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons against its civilians in Aug.
With a military conflict in Syria looming on the immediate horizon for a Congress already pressed for time, immigration reform advocates are worried that the issue of undocumented residents will fall to the wayside of an overcrowded calendar.
On Wednesday, a sharply divided Senate panel approved President Obama's resolution to launch a limited military strike against Syria.
Bolivia's President, Evo Morales, asked the President of the United States, Barack Obama, to honor his Nobel Peace Prize and avoid attacking Syria.
On Tuesday, members of the Senate Foreign Relations committee agreed on a Senate resolution authorizing President Barack Obama to use limited military force against Syria.
President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden met with the heads of congressional committees on Tuesday to press the case for a military strike on Syria following President Bashar al-Assad's chemical attacks on civilians inn the suburbs of Damascus on August 21st.
In light of Syria's alleged use of chemical weapons against civilians, President Obama issued a draft resolution authorizing the use of military force in Syria to both houses of Congress on Saturday.
Secretary of State John Kerry is expected to deliver a statement Friday addressing the situation in Syria at 12:30 p.m. EST.
After the alleged chemical weapons attack of last Monday, August 21 left hundreds dead in Syria, a touching video surfaced; it shows that even in the middle of all that affliction, death and pain, there's still hope.
Following an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian government against its own people on Wednesday, the United States military has turned to fiery rhetoric in preparing what may well be a military strike later this week.
Mexican actor Gael Garcia Bernal took a break from shooting his latest film in Jordan to visit a group of refugees and called on Syrian authorities to put an end to the ongoing conflict that has killed more than 100,000 people.
There was wide spread assumption in media that if the proof is found regarding the use of chemical weapon by the Assad government in the two-year-old Syrian civil war, than it was assumed that U.S. will intervene Militarily to support Syrian civilians.
