Trump to hit Syria's Assad with fresh round of sanctions on Syrian weapons...
The Trump administration will issue new sanctions against Syria as early as Monday as part of its ongoing crackdown on the Syrian government and those who support it.Three US officials said that the...
View ArticleNearly 100 days into his presidency, Trump is still a voracious consumer of...
Nearly 100 days into his presidency, Trump consumes TV almost as voraciously as he did prior to occupying the Oval Office, according to a Washington Post report published on Sunday. According to the...
View ArticleDemocrats are fired up for a comeback as a 30-year-old liberal tries to do...
Despite a recent loss in a special House race in Kansas, liberal voters and operatives have become energized about their chances in a coming runoff in Georgia's 6th District, a May special election in...
View ArticleJOHN KASICH: Here's what surprised me about Trump's first 100 days
Gov. John Kasich of Ohio found something surprising during the first 100 days of President Donald Trump's administration.Both the White House and congressional Republicans are now "taking a lot of...
View ArticleFrench intelligence report says Assad forces are behind April sarin attack
PARIS (Reuters) - French intelligence services have concluded that forces loyal to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out a sarin nerve gas attack on April 4 in northern Syria and that Assad or...
View ArticleHere's why nerve agents are some of the most deadly chemicals on Earth
Chemical weapons like sarin and VX are known to kill men, women, and children with gruesome efficiency.While their names differ, both are members of a larger group of human-made substances, called...
View ArticleRussia says the US missile strike on Syria was a threat to its forces
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu complained on Wednesday that a U.S. missile strike on a Syrian air base earlier this month had posed a threat to Russian troops and was forcing...
View ArticleBoris Johnson says UK could join US attack on Syria without approval from MPs
LONDON — The British government would agree to a request from Donald Trump to attack Syria, even without the support of the UK parliament, Boris Johnson has said.The Foreign Secretary told the Today...
View ArticleIraqi paramilitaries have cut off more of ISIS escape routes to Syria
ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - Iraqi paramilitary units captured the northern province of Hatra on Thursday, cutting off several desert tracks used by Islamic State to move between Iraq and Syria, the...
View ArticleJets bomb two hospitals in Syria's Idlib province
AMMAN (Reuters) - Jets believed to be Russian or Syrian hit two hospitals in rebel-held Idlib province on Thursday following several other strikes on medical facilities in northwestern Syria in recent...
View ArticleNikki Haley blasts Russia for giving 'cover' to Syria
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday rejected Russia's argument that it was working for peace in Syria, and told the UN Security Council that they all need to put more pressure...
View ArticleIsrael's F-35s may have already flown a combat mission against Russian air...
Israel received three F-35s from the US on Tuesday, bringing its total inventory of the revolutionary fighter up to five, but according to a French journalist citing French intelligence reports,...
View ArticleSyria may have used chemical weapons up to 45 times
The Hague (AFP) - Experts from the world's watchdog tasked with destroying chemical weapons are probing reports that toxic arms have been used 45 times in Syria since late last year, the body's chief...
View ArticleNew video shows how Syria and Russia spun the chemical attack
A new video produced by the New York Times shows how the version of events put forward by Syria and Russia about a chemical attack in Syria's Idlib province earlier this month don't quite add up. The...
View ArticleTurkey's Erdogan says 'seriously saddened' by US flags with Syrian YPG
Istanbul (AFP) - President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said Ankara was "seriously saddened" by footage showing American military vehicles operating close to the border with Syrian Kurdish fighters...
View ArticleUS-led coalition airstrikes killed 45 civilians in Iraq and Syria
BAGHDAD (AP) — Investigations conducted during the month of March reveal that U.S.-led coalition airstrikes targeting the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria killed 45 civilians, mostly in and around...
View ArticleUS-backed fighters have cornered ISIS in a Syria city
Tabqa (Syria) (AFP) - US-backed fighters cornered the Islamic State group in a last part of Tabqa on Monday, after tearing down a huge jihadist flag that had fluttered over the northern Syrian city....
View ArticleTrump explains why he struck Syria, weighs in on North Korea, the economy in...
Hours shy of his 100th day in power, President Trump strides into the Oval Office. The energy in the world's most famous room changes instantly and perceptibly as he sits down.It's a little after 3 in...
View ArticleTrump and Putin just talked on the phone about Syria for first time since...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Donald Trump and Russia President Vladimir Putin held a "very good" conversation about the ongoing crisis on Syria.A White House readout of the phone...
View ArticleIsrael's prime minister warned Putin about continued airstrikes over Syria
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that he told Russian President Vladimir Putin that a lack of coordination between Jerusalem and Moscow in the skies over Syria could lead to a conflict between...
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