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Obama and Nordic Leaders Launch New Security Dialogue

By White House

Excerpt from Joint Statement by Kingdom of Denmark, Republic of Finland, Republic of Iceland, Kingdom of Norway, Kingdom of Sweden, and the United States of America

Robert Gates backs Obama on Syria

By Mike Allen, POLITICO

Robert M. Gates, the last secretary of defense for President George W. Bush and the first secretary of defense for President Barack Obama, is urging Congress to back the administration on Syria

Sweden Welcomes President Obama

President Obama’s trip to Sweden before heading to the G20 Summit has all of Europe buzzing. The photo above shows President Obama’s arrival, and the video set below shows the joint press conference with the Prime Minister of Sweden.

Libya’s Lessons on Syria

By Karim Mezran, Jason Pack, Haley Cook

Boxed into a corner by U.S. President Barack Obama’s “red line” that the Assad regime has crossed with its apparent use of chemical weapons on August 21, the United States finds itself on the verge of intervening militarily in Syria’s increasingly brutal and complex civil war.

The Different Flavors of Protests in Egypt

By Wael Eskandar

A father took his son to the zoo. On the way the young boy saw a giraffe, he asked his father if he could come closer. The father took the son closer and even had the zoo keeper give his son a carrot to feed the giraffe. The son was pleased. As they crossed the […]

The Confusing Case for Striking Syria

By Rajan Menon

For more than two years President Barack Obama has resisted the clamor of the interventionists, avoiding military moves against Bashar al-Assad’s regime for fear of being sucked into the vortex of Syria’s horrific and complex civil war.