3 days ago · Here’s a look at Gabbard in her own words: On Syria and visits with Assad. Gabbard traveled to Syria in 2017 to meet with then-President Bashar Assad, a visit that angered lawmakers from both ...

2 days ago · Here's a look at Gabbard in her own words: On Syria and visits with Assad. Gabbard traveled to Syria in 2017 to meet with then-President Bashar Assad, a visit that angered lawmakers from both ...

1 day ago · A former Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii, Gabbard is a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard who deployed twice to the Middle East and ran for president in 2020. She has no formal intelligence experience, however, and has never run a government agency or department. ... A 2017 visit with Syrian President Bashar Assad is another point of ...

5 days ago · After the sudden fall of the Syrian regime in December, Syrians are still euphoric but grappling with a shattered economy and fragile security. What Syria looks like a month after the fall of the regime | Hawai'i Public Radio

3 days ago · HOMS, Syria — Ahmed al-Sharaa, the leader of the Syrian rebel group that overthrew Bashar al-Assad's government, was named head of a new interim government, according to the Syrian news agency, citing a government spokesperson.

1 day ago · When President Donald Trump’s pick for director of national intelligence, former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, met with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad in 2017, hundreds of thousands ...

Jan 22, 2025 · Gabbard had met with a Syrian cleric who had threatened to activate a network of suicide bombers in the United States and Europe if Western countries militarily intervened in Syria, the previously unreported document says. She also met with two senior Syrian government officials sanctioned by the United States, it says.

Jan 14, 2025 · For more than a decade, some 6 million Syrians fled the Assad regime for other countries. Now, the opposite is happening. With the fall of that dictatorship last December, a new kind of refugee is fleeing Syria - those who sympathized with or even fought for the former regime.

Jan 15, 2025 · A controversial trip to Syria in 2017 produced a possible sighting of Austin Tice, an imprisoned journalist. ... then a 37-year-old Democratic congresswoman from Hawaii.

Dec 8, 2024 · WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden said Sunday that the sudden collapse of the Syrian government under Bashar Assad is a “fundamental act of justice” after decades of repression, but it was “a...