Iraqi intelligence: ISIS' second-in-command was killed in an airstrike
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Ayad al-Jumaili, believed to be a deputy of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, was killed in an air strike on Friday, an Iraqi intelligence spokesman said on Saturday.The...
View ArticleRussia and Iran's behavior is hinting at a new Middle East
Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Rouhani, will meet for the eighth time in four years from March 27 to 29. According to the Tehran Times, both sides are “preparing...
View ArticleUS appeals court sets a hearing on Trump's revised travel ban
(Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court said on Monday it would hold a hearing in May over a Hawaii federal judge's order that blocked President Donald Trump's revised travel restrictions on citizens from six...
View ArticleDozens of people reported dead in suspected chemical attack in Syria
BEIRUT — A suspected chemical attack in a town in Syria's northern Idlib province killed dozens of people on Tuesday, Syrian opposition activists said, describing the attack as among the worst in the...
View Article'One of the more incredible statements I've ever heard': John McCain rips...
Republican Sen. John McCain tore into Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Tuesday morning, telling CNN that Tillerson's recent comments about the US's policy in Syria represented "another disgraceful...
View ArticleDozens killed, including children, in suspected gas attack on Syrian rebel area
BEIRUT (Reuters) - A suspected Syrian government chemical attack killed at least 58 people, including 11 children, in the northwestern province of Idlib on Tuesday, a monitor, medics and rescue workers...
View ArticleFormer State Department official: Here's the biggest mistake the US made with...
Anne-Marie Slaughter is a former State Department official and author of "The Chessboard and the Web". Slaughter has famously spoken out against how the US has handled Syria. In this clip she explains...
View ArticleTrump blames chemical attack in Syria on the Obama administration's 'weakness...
President Donald Trump released a statement Tuesday blaming a chemical attack in Syria on Obama administration's policies.Dozens of people were reportedly killed on Tuesday when a hospital treating...
View ArticleThe EU disagrees with the Trump administration over Assad's role in Syria
The EU has reasserted that Bashar al-Assad has no future in Syria, just days after the Trump administration said his departure was no longer a priority for settling the conflict.Federica Mogherini, the...
View ArticleMore air strikes are reportedly hitting the Syrian area where dozens of...
BEIRUT (Reuters) - Warplanes mounted five air strikes on Wednesday in a rebel-held area of northwestern Syria where dozens of people were killed the day before in a suspected chemical attack, the...
View ArticleBoris Johnson on Syria attack: 'All the evidence I have seen suggests this...
Britain's foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, on Wednesday said all evidence suggested the government of President Bashar Assad was behind the deadly chemical attack in Syria on Tuesday."All the evidence...
View Article‘A terrifying weapon’: Here’s how chlorine gas became the new norm in the...
Mohamed Tennari, a medical doctor, was visiting an electronics repair shop in the northwestern Syrian village of Sarmin to have a broken internet router fixed. The store was owned by family friend...
View ArticleThe UN Security Council is going to vote on a resolution blaming Assad for...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States, Britain and France on Tuesday proposed a United Nations Security Council resolution to condemn a suspected deadly chemical weapons attack in Syria, which...
View ArticleAn 'infantile argument': Experts pour cold water on Russia's 'fanciful'...
Russia's government said Wednesday that the toxic gas that killed 83 people and wounded at least 150 in northern Syria the day before was released accidentally when a Syrian air strike hit a "terrorist...
View ArticleUN ambassador Nikki Haley alludes to US intervention in Syria after chemical...
UN ambassador Nikki Haley seemed to hint at a possible US intervention in Syria on Wednesday during a UN Security Council meeting.During her address to the council, Haley harshly condemned the gas...
View ArticleRussia to argue at UN that Syrian rebels responsible for chemical weapons...
Russia will argue at the United Nations that an apparent chemical attack that left scores dead in Syria was in fact contamination caused by rebels' chemical munitions, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov...
View ArticleTRUMP: Syria chemical-weapons attack crossed 'beyond a red line,' and my...
President Donald Trump on Wednesday said the recent chemical attack in Syria crossed "beyond a red line" and changed his mind about Bashar Assad, the ruthless Syrian president, whom Trump had...
View ArticleTRUMP: The Syrian chemical attack crossed 'many, many lines'
President Trump appeared with King Abdullah II of Jordan for a press conference at the White House. Responding to the chemical attack that occurred in Syria, Trump stated that it "crossed many, many...
View ArticleThe deadly chemical attack is the latest to hit Syria in 6 years of brutal...
One of the most devastating chemical attacks to take place during the six-year civil war in Syria has left dozens of people — including many children — dead or critically injured in the rebel-held...
View ArticleAttacking Syria is still a huge mistake
Nikki Haley says that the U.S. may attack the Syrian government:Holding photographs of dead Syrian children after a suspected chemical bomb attack, the United States ambassador to the United Nations...
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