Syria's civil war has been raging for more than six years The Pentagon is in detailed discussions with the White House about military options on Syria, according to a US official. This could include...
The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday it has opened an "ongoing investigation" into the suspected chemical attack in Syria that killed at least 86 people. The Organisation for the...
Russian investigators on Thursday raided acquaintances of the suspected Saint Petersburg metro bomber, as the country held commemorative rallies to honour the 13 victims. Authorities said searches...
Wildly popular among liberal Americans, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wowed the crowd at a women's summit in New York on Thursday, drawing cheer after cheer for his pro-feminist politics. In...
Russia has said its support for Syrian president Bashar al Assad is "not unconditional" in the wake of a suspected chemical weapons attack that has provoked widespread condemnation. The comment from...
Christians in Jerusalem said Thursday that they are hoping for an "open Jerusalem" ahead of Passover and Easter celebrations in the city. Palestinian Christians from the West Bank and Gaza receive...
The Syrian foreign minister has set out conditions for any UN investigation into the deaths of dozens of people from a chemical agent on Tuesday. Walid Muallem told the BBC it would have to be...
The northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, site of a presumed chemical attack, is the last remaining rebel bastion after six years of civil war. Idlib city has taken in masses of displaced Syrians,...
In the lead-up to the US election, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin exchanged warm and fuzzy-sounding phrases such as "highly respected" and "very talented" and, "I think we'll get along very well"....
Autopsy results have revealed that chemical weapons were used in an attack which killed more than 80 people in Syria's Idlib province, according to Turkey's justice minister. Thirty-two victims of...
Philippine authorities said Thursday they had foiled a possible terror attack after arresting a Kuwaiti man and his Syrian wife, both alleged members of the Islamic State (IS) group. Police nabbed...
The infamy of the crimes against humanity carried out by Islamic State is legendary, but the still untold story is how Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan deliberately turned a blind eye to the...
Western powers pushed ahead Thursday with efforts to take action over the suspected chemical attack in Syria after US President Donald Trump warned the "affront to humanity" would not go unanswered....
Chemical weapons were used by President Bashar al-Assad's regime in an attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria, Turkey said on Thursday after carrying out autopsies on three people killed in the...
Turkey said Thursday the autopsies of three Syrians killed in an attack in rebel-held northwestern Syria confirmed that chemical weapons had been used by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, state...
US President Donald Trump has condemned the killing of dozens of civilians in northern Syria in an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syria’s air force. It was an “affront to humanity”, he...
US President Donald Trump has condemned the killing of dozens of civilians in northern Syria in an apparent chemical weapons attack by Syria's air force. It was an "affront to humanity", he said,...
U. S. Ambassador Nikki Haley warned Wednesday that the Trump administration will take action against chemical attacks in Syria that bear "all the hallmarks" of President Bashar Assad's government if...
US intelligence agencies don't know the true number of foreign jihadists still fighting in Iraq and Syria, or the extent of the threat they pose to their home countries, a senior US military officer...
Britain, France and the United States on Wednesday held off calling a vote at the UN Security Council on a resolution demanding an investigation of the suspected chemical attack in Syria to allow...