Iran warns US action in Syria 'won't go unanswered'
Tehran (AFP) - Any new US action in Syria "will not go unanswered", Iran's Defence Minister Hossein Dehgan warned Tuesday after America threatened to follow up a strike last week with more attacks.The...
View ArticleSpicer struggles to clarify remarks after falsely claiming that Hitler didn’t...
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made the bizarre claim on Monday that Adolf Hitler never stooped to the level of using chemical weapons, as Syria's Bashar al-Assad has.When asked if Spicer...
View ArticleSean Spicer: Trump's stance on refugee admission has not changed after Syrian...
White House press secretary Sean Spicer shut down speculation that President Trump's emotional reaction to the chemical weapons attack that killed 80 in Syria last week had altered the administration's...
View ArticleSean Spicer's bizarre Hitler comment has sparked a massive backlash on Twitter
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer made the bizarre claim on Tuesday that unlike Syrian President Bashar Assad, Adolf Hitler never stooped to the level of using chemical weapons.The claim was...
View Article'Chemical weapons are chemical weapons': The Trump administration may be...
The Trump administration has in recent days sent highly conflicting signals about what its red line would be for taking further military action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and whether it...
View ArticleMATTIS: Syrian strike will not 'spiral out of control' into war with Russia
Defense Secretary James Mattis addressed the nation with the US's top commander in the Middle East, Joseph Votel, and touched on soaring tensions between the world's two greatest military powers — the...
View ArticleSean Spicer made 2 more regrettable blunders in his Holocaust apology
It's been a long day for Sean Spicer.At a press briefing Tuesday afternoon, the White House press secretary was admonishing Syria for its recent gas attack when he claimed that even Hitler "didn't sink...
View ArticlePUTIN: Trust between the US and Russia has eroded under Trump
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary...
View ArticleTRUMP: We're not going to get more involved in Syria
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump says the U.S. is not going to get involved in Syria but that he had to act because of chemical attacks there.His comments, aired Wednesday on Fox Business News,...
View ArticleA deal to evacuate 4 besieged Syrian towns is beginning with a prisoner exchange
Beirut (AFP) - A deal to evacuate four besieged Syrian towns began Wednesday with an exchange of prisoners between rebels and government forces, local sources and state media said.Thousands of people,...
View ArticleTrump told China's president he would strike Syria while eating 'the most...
President Donald Trump said that he told Chinese President Xi Jinping about the US strike on Syria over chocolate cake at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida last Thursday night.Trump recounted how he...
View ArticlePublic opinion is shifting on US involvement in Syria
Recent polls indicate that public opinion on US military action in Syria seems to be shifting after President Donald Trump ordered a missile strike last week against the regime of Bashar Assad.The...
View ArticleMcCain and Graham say ISIS and Assad are 'inextricably connected' in call for...
Republican Sens. John McCain and Lindsey Graham are painting ISIS and the Assad regime as "inextricably connected" in a call for "greater military action" in Syria.The pair of senators who sit on the...
View ArticlePutin slams Trump over Syria strikes in 'unusually hostile' reception of...
Vladimir Putin said on Wednesday trust had eroded between the United States and Russia under President Donald Trump, as Moscow delivered an unusually hostile reception to Secretary of State Rex...
View ArticleThe US just attacked Assad for the first time — here’s how Syria's six-year...
Last week, the US responded to a deadly chemical weapons attack believed to have been carried out by the Syrian government six years into the country's devastating civil war.The war, which erupted in...
View ArticleUS grills Russia for backing Syria's Assad at heated UN meeting
The United States told Russia at the United Nations on Wednesday that is it isolating itself by continuing to support Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, while Britain said its scientists found sarin was...
View ArticleRussia just blocked a UN resolution to condemn chemical weapons in Syria
Russia vetoed a UN resolution condemning the reported use of chemical weapons in Syria and urging a speedy investigation on Wednesday. Wednesday marks the eigth time Moscow exercised a veto in support...
View ArticleGOP lawmaker says Sean Spicer should quit: 'I just don't think he serves the...
At least one Republican lawmaker is asking White House press secretary Sean Spicer to quit, following an uproar over Spicer's reference to Hitler during a press briefing.Rep. Mike Coffman of Colorado...
View ArticleThe US may have intercepted communications that preceded Syria's...
A senior US official claimed that military and intelligence operatives had intercepted communications between the Syrian military and chemical experts discussing preparations for last week's...
View ArticleChemical weapons experts are reportedly in Turkey to investigate the alleged...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A team of experts from the global chemical weapons watchdog has been sent to Turkey to collect samples as part of an investigation into an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria...
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