Senate panel calls for new US strategy for Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Julian Pecquet

Julian Pecquet

Apr 1, 2014

U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) (R) and ranking member Senator Bob Corker (R-TN) (L) hold a news conference after a Senate vote on an aid package for Ukraine at the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 27, 2014. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTR3IVO5 — US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (right) and ranking member Sen. Bob Corker R-Tenn. hold a news conference at the Capitol in Washington, March 27, 2014. — REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tim Kaine (D-VA) does a series of interviews at the site of his election-night party during the U.S. presidential election in Richmond, Virginia November 6, 2012. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS ELECTIONS USA PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION) - RTR3A32N

Kaine calls for a new Syrian humanitarian strategy

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Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Albert Del Rosario (L) chats with U.S. Representatives Chris Smith and Al Green (R) after their news conference at the Department of Foreign Affairs headquarters in Pasay city, metro Manila November 25, 2013. Smith along with the members of the U.S. congressional delegation said in a news conference on Monday, that they expressed their strong support for Philippine humanitarian relief operations as well as upcoming reconstruction and rehabilitation plans of the governmen

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U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) speaks to the media next to Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Robert Menendez (D-NJ) after the Senate passed the immigration bill on Capitol Hill in Washington June 27, 2013. REUTERS/Yuri Gripas (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY IMMIGRATION) - RTX11423

Senate panel takes administration to task over Syria

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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (2nd L) arrives to testify at a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on national security and foreign policy priorities for the 2014 international affairs budget, on Capitol Hill in Washington, April 18, 2013. Kerry on Thursday asked senators pressing for tougher sanctions over Iran's nuclear ambitions to be patient, saying there is uncertainty in the Islamic republic two months before its June 14 election. Pictured with Kerry are (L-R) committee chairman Robert Men

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