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A fact-finding mission by the UN’s chemical weapons watchdog will continue in Syria despite airstrikes carried out on the country hours earlier by the US, UK, and France. Inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are in the country to investigate the circumstances surrounding reports of a gas attack in the […]
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar The US fired more than 118 missiles in “precision strikes” on Syria on Friday night. Defense Secretary James Mattis said the number of weapons used was “a little over double” that of a 2017 air strike on Syria which involved 59 Tomahawk missiles. If Tomahawk missiles were used, the minimum weapons cost […]
CNN President Donald Trump ordered “precision strikes” on Syria Friday night, in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack there. The development follows a suspected chemical attack that is widely believed to be the work of the Syrian government, which killed dozens of people. Syria has denied any involvement in the chemical attack. President Donald […]
British Prime Minister Theresa May and US President Donald Trump have agreed to keep working on an international response to the alleged chemical attack in Syria’s Douma, vowing it would not “go unchallenged.” The UK and US leaders discussed Syria in a phone call on Thursday evening, a Downing Street spokesman said in a statement. […]
Alexander Zemlianichenko/Pool via REUTERS Russia has vetoed a U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution that would have condemned last weekend’s suspected gas attack in Syria. The vote Tuesday afternoon in the 15-member Security Council was 12 in favor. Bolivia joined Russia in voting “no,” and China abstained. BEIRUT (AP) — Russia has vetoed a U.S.-drafted U.N. resolution that […]
Published time: 10 Apr, 2018 19:20 The UN Security Council gathered in New York to weigh in on the alleged chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma. It is expected to vote on the rival US and Russian draft resolutions, calling for an investigation. Russia and the US have separately requested a vote on […]
White Helmets/Reuters A hospital in Douma, Syria, was reportedly attacked with what may be sarin and chlorine gases on Saturday. Videos and photos on social media allegedly show dead men, women, and children with others foaming at the mouth and struggling to breathe. The suspected gas attacks reportedly killed about 40 to 150 people and […]
A Tory minister has condemned Labour’s official response to an alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria for not mentioning Russia or Iran, despite the fact the government’s own statement on the matter didn’t mention them either. Labour was criticized by a top Conservative official for its response to Saturday night’s alleged chemical weapons attack in […]
On Monday evening, President Donald Trump will meet senior Pentagon officials with his new mega-hawk National Security Advisor John Bolton taking part. Bolton enters the office with a brand new pretext to bomb Syria. Bolton, a key player in building the George W Bush administration’s fraudulent case for attacking Iraq, starts his tenure in the […]
Jason Reed/Reuters A suspected chemical attack caused at least 40 people to suffocate to death, and injured hundreds more, in Syria on Saturday. On Sunday, US Senator John McCain criticized President Donald Trump for recently saying he is in favor of pulling US troops out of Syria. McCain said the president’s words “emboldened” Syrian leader Bashar […]
