US Considers Next Steps in Syria - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Barbara Slavin

Barbara Slavin

Apr 25, 2013

U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks with reporters after reading a statement on chemical weapon use in Syria during a news conference in Abu Dhabi April 25, 2013. Hagel on Thursday said the U.S. intelligence community believes the Syrian government has used sarin gas on a small scale against rebels trying to overthrow the government of Bashar al-Assad. REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool (UNITED ARAB EMIRATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXYZQ8 — US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel speaks with reporters after reading a statement on chemical weapon use in Syria during a news conference in Abu Dhabi, April 25, 2013. — REUTERS/Jim Watson/Pool

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U.S. President Barack Obama (R) listens to remarks by Jordan's King Abdullah prior to a bilateral meeting in the Oval Office of the White House to discuss issues like the Syrian crisis and regional security, in Washington, April 26, 2013. REUTERS/Mike Theiler (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXZ19P

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Senate homeland security and governmental affairs investigations subcommittee Chairman Carl Levin (D-MI) holds an iPhone as he speaks to Apple CEO Tim Cook during a hearing on offshore profit shifting and the U.S. tax code, on Capitol Hill in Washington, May 21, 2013. Apple Inc's chief executive officer defended the company's tax record at a Tuesday Senate hearing where lawmakers said the maker of iPads, iPods and Mac computers kept billions of dollars in profits in Irish subsidiaries to avoid U.S. taxes.

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Syrian refugees stand as they wait to receive humanitarian aid shopping vouchers at a distribution center of the World Food Program (WFP) organization in Amman April 11, 2013. The U.N. refugee agency and the WFP are distributing shopping vouchers to 170,000 Syrian refugees in Jordan every month to mostly women and children. The shopping voucher program has allocated $5.5 million in vouchers for Syrian refugees in Jordan, according to a WFP official. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS SOCIETY I

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Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi speaks during his joint news conference with his Jordanian counterpart Nasser Judeh in Amman May 7, 2013. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: POLITICS) - RTXZDGZ

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