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Canada Sets New Sanctions Against Syria After Chemical Attack

Canada announced new sanctions against Syria on Friday targeting officials and entities linked to the use of chemical...

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‘No Doubt’ Syria Has Retained Chemical Weapons

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said during a visit to Israel Friday that there can be "no doubt" that Syria has retained...

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US Defence Chief In Israel For Talks On Iran, Syria

US Defence Secretary Jim Mattis visited Israel on Friday for talks expected to focus on Iran, Syria and the two...

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Syria Evacuees On Move Again After 48-Hour Delay

Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees were on the move again Friday after being blocked for 48 hours at a transit...

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Scared Syrian Evacuees Stuck At Site of Deadly Bombing

Hundreds of frightened Syrians being evacuated from besieged towns were stuck Thursday at a rebel-held transit point...

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France Says Will ‘prove’ Damascus Behind Syria ‘chemical Attack’

France will produce proof "in a few days" that the regime of Bashar al-Assad launched a chemical strike on a Syrian...

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British MPs Call For Assad’s Wife To Lose Citizenship

UK lawmakers are calling on the government to strip Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife of her British citizenship,...

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Syria’s Assad Is An ‘arch-Terrorist’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is an "arch-terrorist" and it is time Russia realised he is "literally and...

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Buses Evacuate Hundreds From Four Besieged Syria Towns

Hundreds of civilians and fighters who have been under crippling siege for more than two years left four Syrian towns...

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Assad Comments On Chemical Attack ‘100% Lies’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's comments that last week's chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US...

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Chain of Events After Suspected Syria Chemical Attack

A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 killed dozens of people. Western...

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Syria’s Assad Says Chemical Attack ‘100% Fabrication’

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has accused the West of fabricating a suspected chemical weapons attack that prompted...

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Syria’s Assad, Hated By the West But Defended By Russia

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, who has denied ordering last week's suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town,...

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Assad Brands Chemical Weapon Claims ‘100 Fabrication’

Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, who faces international calls to be tried as a war criminal, has branded claims his...

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Syria’s Assad Says Chemical Attack ‘100 Percent Fabrication’

A handout picture released by the Syrian presidency's press office shows Syrian President Bashar al-Assad during an...

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Syria War: Anger After Russia Vetoes Resolution At UN

Russia has vetoed a draft resolution at the UN Security Council that would have condemned last week’s alleged...

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Trump Says It Is Time To End Syria’s ‘brutal Civil War’

US President Donald Trump told allies it was time to end Syria's "brutal" civil war Wednesday, as he branded the...

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US and Russia Still Far Apart As Syria Haunts Talks

Russia's President Vladimir Putin hosted US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Kremlin on Wednesday but the rival...

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Trump and Putin Trade Barbs As Ministers Meet

The US and Russian presidents have revealed the wide gulf between them over Syria, even as their foreign ministers were...