In a statement, the Turkish foreign ministry said the US-led operation "has eased humanity's conscience in the face of" the suspected chemical attack (AFP Photo/ADEM ALTAN)/ Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday welcomed Western strikes against Syrian leader Bashar ...
Russian President Vladimir Putin speaks during a ceremony to receive credentials from foreign ambassadors at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2018. Sergei Ilnitsky/Pool via REUTERS/ MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia on Saturday called for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security ...
London (United Kingdom) (AFP) - British Prime Minister Theresa May faced a backlash from the domestic opposition after launching military strikes Saturday on Syria without consulting parliament. As the Conservative leader explained her rationale for the airstrikes, opposition parties claimed the ...
After the U.S. and its allies launched strikes on Syria, UN Ambassador Haley warned that the U.S. is prepared to respond again, while Vice President Pence said Russia is “on the wrong side of history.”
PARIS (AP) — France has proof that the Syrian government launched chlorine gas attacks and has crossed a line that could prompt French airstrikes, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday. Macron did not specify whether France is planning military action against Syrian President Bashar Assad's ...
Syrians wave Russian and Syrian flags during a protest against U.S.-led air strikes in Damascus,Syria April 14,2018.REUTERS/ Omar Sanadiki/ MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian lawmaker Vladimir Dzhabarov said on Saturday that Russia was likely to call for a meeting of the United Nations Security Council ...
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A Russian bid for the United Nations Security Council to condemn U.S., British and French air strikes on Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack failed on Saturday after only China and Bolivia joined Russia to vote in favor of a draft resolution. The 15-member ...
A photo released on April 14, 2018 by the official Syrian Arab News Agency (SANA) shows an explosion on the outskirts of Damascus after Western strikes reportedly hit Syrian military bases and chemical research centres in and around the capital (AFP Photo/Handout / STR)/ Washington (United ...
British Prime Minister Theresa May and French President Emmanuel Macron defended their Friday night, calling it a necessary move to stop the regime’s use of chemical weapons. In a statement, May accused the Syrian government of “using weapons against its own people in the most cruel and ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S., British and French forces pounded Syria with air strikes early on Saturday in response to a poison gas attack that killed dozens of people last week, in the biggest intervention by Western powers against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. U.S. President Donald Trump ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coupled praise for U.S.-led strikes on Syrian targets on Saturday with a warning that Iran's presence there further endangers Syria. U.S., British and French forces hit Syria with air strikes overnight in response to an alleged poison gas ...
Iran's Foreign Ministry on Saturday condemned the U.S.-led attacks on Syria and said Washington and its allies would bear responsibility for the consequences in the region and beyond, state media said. "Undoubtedly, the United States and its allies, which took military action against Syria ...
Andrea Mitchell, NBC News chief foreign affairs correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about the debate within the White House about the concerns about escalating a war in Syria and the potential for a cyber-based retaliation.
The United States, along with the U.K. and France, attacked Syrian targets in retaliation for the Assad regime's alleged use of chemical weapons last week in Douma. Markos Kounalakis, a foreign affairs columnist for McClatchy News and visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution, joins CBSN to ...
Trump announced in a Friday night press conference that a combined operation in collaboration with France and the United Kingdom was underway. “The purpose of our actions tonight is to establish a strong deterrent against the production, spread and use of chemical weapons. We are prepared to ...
Russia's defence ministry has accused Britain of staging the chemical weapons attack that killed more than 40 people in the Syrian town of Douma on Saturday. Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov, a military spokesman, said the Russian Army had "proof that testifies to the direct participation of Britain in ...
US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley (C), told the Security Council that Washington is taking time to assess the full implications of possible military strikes against Syria (AFP Photo/HECTOR RETAMAL)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The United States, Britain and France made ...
U.S., British and French air strikes on Syria are a violation of international law and are likely meant to prevent investigators from the global chemical weapons watchdog from doing their work, a senior Russian lawmaker was quoted by Interfax as saying on Saturday. The chairman of the ...
JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu coupled praise for U.S.-led strikes on Syrian targets on Saturday with a warning that Iran’s presence there further endangers Syria./ A plane preparing to take off as part of the joint airstrike operation by the British, French and U.S. ...
'staged and directed by Britain' as 'ludicrous'/ ’s military has claimed to have evidence that Britain had “direct involvement” in staging , a charge quickly condemned as "grotesque" by the UK. Humanitarian volunteers were “seriously pressured” by the UK to speed up plans for a “provocation” in ...
Russia's defense ministry said on Saturday that the majority of missiles fired during the overnight attack on Syria by U.S., British and French forces were intercepted by Syrian government air defense systems, TASS news agency reported. Russia, an ally of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, has ...
Russian Ambassador to the United Nations Vassily Nebenzia(L) talks with Permanent Representative of the Syrian Arab Republic to the United Nations, Bashar Jaafari (R) during a UN Security Council meeting on April 10, 2018 (AFP Photo/HECTOR RETAMAL)/ United Nations (United States) (AFP) - ...
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned on Saturday that a U.S.-led missile attack on Syria would lead to destruction in the Middle East, the semi-official Tasnim news agency reported./ FILE PHOTO: Iranian President Hassan Rouhani attends a meeting with Muslim leaders and scholars in Hyderabad, ...
Britain struck Syria with air-launched cruise missiles on Saturday to cripple President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons facilities and prevent what Prime Minister Theresa May cast as a global slide towards their greater use. Four Royal Air Force Tornado jets from the Akrotiri base in Cyprus ...
Israeli minister/ JERUSALEM (Reuters) - U.S.-led strikes in Syria are an “important signal” to Iran, Syria and Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, a senior Israeli cabinet minister said on Saturday. “The use of chemical weapons crosses a red line that humanity can no longer tolerate,” Yoav ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on U.S.-led missile strikes on Syria (all times local): The Russian military says Syria's Soviet-made air defense systems have shot down all 12 cruise missile aimed at a Syrian air base. The Russian Defense Ministry said that 12 cruise missiles have been launched at ...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said an attack on Syria by the United States, France and Britain on Saturday was a crime and would not achieve any gains./ FILE PHOTO - Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gestures as he delivers a speech in Mashad, Iran, March 21, 2018. ...
Tehran warns of consequences to the U.S., U.K. and France’s actions, while Moscow accuses Washington of ‘deepening a humanitarian catastrophe’/ The Syrian government’s staunch allies strongly condemned the overnight airstrikes on Assad regime targets, with Iran’s supreme leader branding as ...
TEHRAN – The Iranian Foreign Ministry issued a statement on Saturday strongly condemning the U.S.-led attacks on Syria, saying the act is contrary to international law and a violation of Syria’s national sovereignty and territorial integrity. Syria came under attack one week after a suspected ...
Russia's Defence Ministry said on Friday that Britain was involved faking a suspected chemical weapons attack in the Syrian town of Douma. Britain and its allies accuse Damascus of carrying out the suspected attack on Douma and are considering military action against Syria in response. Syria and ...
MOSCOW (AP) — Faced with the threat of a U.S. strike on Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin has a dilemma: allow U.S. missiles to hit Moscow's ally without a response or risk a military clash with the United States. If driven into a corner by a U.S. attack, Putin will be unlikely to sit back ...
General Joseph Dunford, "We did have some initial surface to air missile activity from the Syrian regime," after attacks on Syria. Friday night Trump ordered targeted strikes in Syria to retaliate for suspected chemical weapons attack.
Turkey, Russia and Iran have great merits in resolution of crisis in Syria. Just thanks to close contacts among Ankara, Moscow and Tehran, division of Syria as a country was prevented. However, despite this, the allies still had disagreements on Syrian President Bashar al-Assad 's participation ...
Google Finance. *Market caps as of May 30, 2024. Microsoft surged past Apple earlier this year to take the No. 1 spot based on market cap. The company's partnership with ChatGPT creator OpenAI has unquestionably been the primary factor behind Microsoft's remarkable rise. The tech giant has ...
Gvir (left) and Bezalel Smotrich reject the US-backed ceasefire deal/ Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to quit and collapse the governing coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to a Gaza ceasefire proposal unveiled by US President Joe Biden on Friday. Finance ...
A Nexstar video breaking down fast food chains that have seen the fastest-rising prices. SAN DIEGO (FOX 5/KUSI) — More than a dozen Rubio’s Coastal Grill locations across San Diego County abruptly closed this week, surprising both workers and customers./ In a statement sent to FOX 5/KUSI on ...
GARDI SUGDUB, Panama (AP) — On a tiny island off Panama’s Caribbean coast, about 300 families are packing their belongings in preparation for a dramatic change. Generations of Gunas who have grown up on Gardi Sugdub in a life dedicated to the sea and tourism will trade that next week for the ...
Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted there will be no permanent ceasefire in Gaza until Hamas’s military and governing capabilities are destroyed and all hostages are released. His statement comes after US President Joe Biden announced Israel had proposed a three-stage plan to ...
US President Joe Biden said that 'it's time for this war to end'/ US President Joe Biden has urged Hamas to accept a new Israeli proposal to end the conflict in Gaza, saying that "it's time for this war to end". The three-part proposal would begin with a six-week ceasefire in which the Israel ...
This combination of photos provided by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration shows packaging for, from left, CRECELAC INFANT Powdered Goat-Milk Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with Iron 0 to 12 months, and Farmalac BABY Powdered Infant Formula with ...
An unexpected tool is giving us new insight into the fine structure of the outer layers of Using meteorites that were long ago chipped off the red planet around 11 million years ago and flung into space to eventually land on Earth, scientists have been able to study the way volcanism shaped the ...
Some of the fiercest fighting of the war is reported to have taken place in Jabalia/ Israeli forces have pulled out of Jabalia in northern Gaza, after a three-week offensive there which saw tens of thousands of civilians flee the area. The military said "hundreds of terrorists [had been] ...
to become the world's bestselling foldable smartphone brand in the first quarter, marking the first time that the US-sanctioned Chinese giant has topped that segment, according to a consultancy report. Shenzhen-based Huawei saw its foldable smartphone shipments in the first three months of the ...