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The international community has strongly condemned the chemical weapons attack. UN is awaiting a detailed report on a chemical weapons attack earlier this week in Syria that killed at least 70 people and injured more than 200 others, media reports said. “We are still receiving information. Full details are still not known,” Under Secretary-General and […]

Capitals, SANA – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stressed that the US aggressive attack on Syria would strengthen terrorism and extremism in the region and intensify chaos and disorder in the world. Rouhani, on his Twitter account, called on countries of the world to “oppose such policies which bear destructive and dangerous consequences for the region and the world.” In […]

KARACHI: Seven armed men robbed Somalia’s honorary consulate in Block 5 Clifton in Karachi early Saturday morning. They took two security guards and two staff members, hostage after entering the premises at 3 AM on Saturday, officials told the media. The robbers remained in the consulate for three hours and robbed off four laptops, four […]

Large parts of Drottninggatan remain cordoned off, with traces of the attack still visible early on Saturday morning. Photo: Anders Wiklund/TT A man who was arrested on Friday is thought to be the driver of the truck that crashed into the Åhléns department store, killing four people. He is held by the police suspected of […]

Damascus, SANA – The General Command of the Army and the Armed Forces announced that the US attacked an air base in Syria’s Central Region with a number of missiles. “At 3:42 am today, the United States of America committed a blatant act of aggression targeting one of our air bases in the Central Region […]

An image of the vehicle which drove into a crowd in Stockholm. Photo: Tomas Oneborg/SvD/TTSwedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that Sweden ‘has been attacked’ after a truck drove into a crowd on one of Stockholm’s main shopping streets, injuring several people. What we know: – A truck drove into a crowd of people on […]

Emergency services near the scene of the incident in central Stockholm. Photo: Jessica Gow/TT Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven says that Sweden ‘has been attacked’ after a truck drove into a crowd on one of Stockholm’s main shopping streets, injuring several people. What we know: – At 14:53 the police received a call via the […]

THIS IS THE MOST HEARTBREAKING PHOTO TO EMERGE FROM SYRIA’S CHEMICAL ATTACKS The father cradled his 9-month-old twins, Aya and Ahmed, each in an arm. He stroked their hair and choked back tears, mumbling, “Say goodbye, baby, say goodbye” to their lifeless bodies. Abdel Hameed Alyousef lost his two children, his wife and other relatives […]

Moscow has abandoned its safety cooperation with the U.S. air force. But little has changed in Syria, beyond Moscow’s expectations of Trump. In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s strike on an airbase controlled by Syrian President Bashar Assad early Friday morning, the Russian Bullit Marquez / AP Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of an […]