International Responses to Syrian Conflict, Military Intervention, and Chemical Weapons: U.S Response

Providing non-lethal assistance to Syrian opposition.

Sanctions against Syria

Examining the Syrian Refugee Crisis: Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
As Delivered Opening Remarks Before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on the Middle East and North Africa

Remarks to the Press on Syria

On the UN’s Report on Chemical Weapons Use

President Obama delivered a national address from the East Room of the White House to discuss the situation in Syria.

Syria: Weighing the U.S. Response

White House National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice discussed the Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons against Syrian civilians, the longstanding international norm against the use of chemical weapons, and the need for action to deter the Assad regime from future use of chemical weapons.

Obama: Russian plan might avert attack.

In a rhetorical argument about the impossibility of Assad turning over chemical weapons, John Kerry says Bashar al-Assad would have one week to hand over chemical weapons and avoid attack.

President Obama makes the case for limited and targeted military action.

The Leaders and Representatives of Australia, Canada, France, Italy, Japan, Republic of Korea, Saudi Arabia, Spain, Turkey, the United Kingdom and the United States of America made a joint statement on the margins of the Group of 20 Nations Leader’s Meeting in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Address made by Samantha Power to the Center for American Progress.

In Stockholm, Sweden.

Statement made in the Rose Garden of the White House.

President Obama Speaks on Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House.

currently on C-Span

Opinion entitled "Russians deserve better than Putin" in response to Vladimir Putin's NYT Op-ed piece,

The Authorization of the Use of Force in Syria, September, 03, 2013.

The Authorization of Use of Force in Syria, September 04, 2013

The House continued debate on the authorization of use of force against Syria.

September 12, 2013

September 6, 2013

August 23, 2013

September 30, 2013

Provides a link to all the revised documents during the time period between December 5, 2012 - September 30, 2013.