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A woman who fled eastern Ghouta receives aid from Russian forces at a shelter in Adra, near Damascus, Syria, March 20, 2018 © Omar Sanadiki / Reuters Russia is ready for a multifaceted cooperation with the Arab League in order to ensure regional security,” Putin said on Sunday in an address to the 22-member alliance. The Russian president […]

Zlatan after scoring against the Chicago Fire. Photo: Kamil Krzaczynski/AFP/TT Zlatan Ibrahimovic scored on his first full appearance for the Los Angeles Galaxy on Saturday to secure a battling 1-0 win over the Chicago Fire in Major League Soccer. Ibrahimovic took his MLS goals tally to three in three games after heading home a cross […]

  The United States has warned it “is locked and loaded” to strike Syria if there are any more chemical attacks, hours after more than 100 bombs targeted facilities in Damascus and Homs said to be associated with the use of chemical weapons. Speaking to an emergency session of the UN Security Council on Saturday, […]

US President Donald Trump announces from the White House that strikes are under way on Syria. (Photo: AFP/Mandel Ngan) WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump on Twitter praised Western air strikes against the Syrian government on Saturday (Apr 14) as “perfectly executed”, and added “Mission Accomplished”. “A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United […]

French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives to give a statement on Saturday morning. Photo: Michel Euler /Pool / AFP  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday that missile strikes carried out overnight in Syria had destroyed a “large part” of the Damascus government’s stocks of chemical weapons. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin © Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP The US and its allies struck civil and military facilities in Syria, violating the UN Charter and international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, responding to the American-French-British intervention in Syria. Washington launched “an aggression against a sovereign state which is at the forefront of the fight […]

The US, UK and France have launched strikes “on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities” in Syria, US President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday. The strikes come after a suspected chemical weapons attack in the former rebel stronghold of Douma last weekend.  Here are all the latest updates on the strikes:  Germany: Strikes were ‘necessary and appropriate’ […]

The retired French colonel Mr. Alain Corvez has stressed that nobody can win the nuclear war being prepared by unreasonable western leaders of today over false flags pretexts, regretting the bad diplomacy of France which accepted to be a valet of the Atlantic Alliance and a member of the US-led “evil axis”. He told the […]

Russia said in Friday’s UNSC meeting that its specialists found no traces of chemical weapons in Douma [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] Russia said in Friday’s UNSC meeting that its specialists found no traces of chemical weapons in Douma [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting called by Russia to discuss what it describes as a threat […]