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Month: April 2017

Syria says U.S. strike hit IS poison gas depot, killed hundreds; U.S. denies

5 years ago
THE LEVANT NEWS -- The Syrian army said an air strike late on Wednesday by the U.S.-led coalition hit poison gas supplies belonging to Islamic State, releasing a toxic substance that killed "hundreds", but the coalition denied carrying out raids in the area. A statement by the army, flashed on Thursday by Syrian state TV, […]
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Russia blocks U.N. Security Council condemnation of Syria attack

5 years ago
By Michelle Nichols | UNITED NATIONS -- Russia blocked a Western-led effort at the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to condemn last week's deadly gas attack in Syria and push Moscow's ally President Bashar al-Assad to cooperate with international inquiries into the incident. It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow has […]
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TRYING TO UNDERSTAND THE U.S. ESCALATION IN SYRIA

5 years ago
  By Sobhi Ghandour -- It is difficult to predict what the president of the world’s greatest nation will do when he has no previous political or governing experience and when he is known for his changing points of view and his reliance on the logic of business elites and deal-making for profits detached from principles. […]
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Asad vs Regime of Warring Jihadis

5 years ago
SANA SANA / REUTERSAssad during an interview with a Croatian newspaper. Damascus, Syria. April 6. by Graham E. Fuller -- How should we understand U.S. President Donald Trump’s cruise missile barrage last week against a Syrian airbase? In one sense, it might be a tactical triumph for his administration: cruise missile attacks are popular with the American […]
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New Military Adviser Ivanka Trump Reportedly Convinced Her Father to Bomb Syria

5 years ago
By Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress -- “I’m sure she said: ‘Listen, this is horrible stuff.’” vanka Trump — an official government employee without military experience but with her own White House office— reportedly influenced President Donald Trump’s decision to strike against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad last week, according to her brother Eric Trump. Trump authorized a […]
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Chinese President urges peaceful resolution of North Korea tension in call with Trump

5 years ago
By Michael Martina and Christian Shepherd | BEIJING -- Chinese President Xi Jinping called for a peaceful resolution of rising tension on the Korean peninsula in a telephone conversation with U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday, as a U.S. aircraft carrier strike group steamed towards the region. Trump's call with Xi, just days after they met […]
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Russian diplomat says U.S. stance on Syria 'a mystery' - agencies

5 years ago
The U.S. position on Syria remains a mystery to Moscow and Washington's rhetoric tends to be primitive and loutish, Russian news agencies quoted Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov as saying on Wednesday. Ryabkov's remarks were released minutes before U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, the highest level representative of the Trump administration to visit Russia, […]
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White House accuses Russia of Syria chemical attack 'cover up'

5 years ago
By Steve Holland and Andrew Osborn | WASHINGTON/MOSCOW -- President Donald Trump's administration accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to shield Syria's government from blame for a deadly gas attack, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brought a Western message to Moscow condemning its support for President Bashar al-Assad. Trump, who has faced criticism for lacking […]
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Trump aide Gorka drew Libya partition plan on napkin

5 years ago
A top security adviser in the Trump administration reportedly pushed for the territorial division of Libya earlier this year, drawing a partition plan on the back of a napkin while meeting a senior European official. Sebastian Gorka suggested partitioning the country weeks before Donald Trump's inauguration in January, The Guardian reported. The European diplomat he was meeting […]
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Palestinian-Israeli lawmaker gets jail for smuggling phones to inmates

5 years ago
An Israeli court on Sunday sentenced a Palestinian-Israeli former MP to two years in jail after he pleaded guilty to smuggling mobile phones to Palestinian prisoners, a court transcript showed. Basel Ghattas, of the Arab-dominated Joint List, resigned his seat in the Israeli parliament as part of a plea bargain reached last month in which he admitted […]
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At strategic shoal, China asserts power through control, and concessions

5 years ago
By Martin Petty | SCARBOROUGH SHOAL, SOUTH CHINA SEA -- Far out in the South China Sea, where dark blue meets bright turquoise, a miles-long row of fishing boats anchor near Scarborough Shoal, backed by a small armada of coastguard projecting China's power in Asia's most disputed waters. China still calls the shots at the prime […]
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Pope decries war, terrorism and weapons as he condemns Egypt blast

5 years ago
By Philip Pullella | VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis condemned a deadly blast at a church in Egypt and said at a Palm Sunday Mass that the world was suffering from wars, terrorism and "interests that are armed and ready to strike". Francis, who has not made any direct public comment on the current Middle East […]
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Tillerson: Syria strike a message to others, including North Korea

5 years ago
By David Morgan | WASHINGTON -- U.S. military strikes against Syria over its alleged use of chemical weapons are a warning to other nations, including North Korea, that "a response is likely" if they pose a danger, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Sunday. As a U.S. Navy strike group headed toward the Korean […]
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ISIS launches two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels

5 years ago
By Suleiman Al-Khalidi | AMMAN Islamic State militants launched two suicide attacks on U.S.-backed Syrian rebels near the border with Iraq, leaving at least 12 dead in the fighting and many wounded, rebel sources said on Sunday. They said eight Islamic State fighters and four of their own men died. An attack at midnight on […]
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Trump aides differ over Assad's future after Syria attack

5 years ago
By Sarah N. Lynch and David Lawder | WASHINGTON  -- Top aides to President Donald Trump demurred on Sunday over where U.S. policy on Syria was headed after last week's retaliatory missile strike, leaving open questions about whether removing Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad from power was now one of Trump's goals. After the United States launched […]
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