Erdogan welcomes Syria strikes against Assad regime
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 ...
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Russia calls for UN meeting on Syria, mulls supplies of S-300 systems
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 ...
British PM faces backlash for bypassing MPs on Syria
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 ...
Trump officials issue warnings after Syria strike
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.”
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France mulls military action against Syria for gas attacks
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 ...
Russia likely to call U.N. meeting over Syria attack - Russian lawmaker
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 ...
Russia fails in U.N. bid to condemn U.S.-led strikes on Syria
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 ...
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Syria strikes: what we know
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 ...
World Leaders Respond To The Coordinated Strike In Syria
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 ...
U.S., Britain, France launch air strikes in Syria
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 ...
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Netanyahu praises US strikes in Syria, warns about Iran
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 ...
U.S., allies responsible for regional fallout of Syria raids: Iran
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 ...
Scope of Syria strikes hotly debated in White House
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.
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How did Russia respond to the airstrikes in Syria?
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 Orders Strikes On Syria In Retaliation For Chemical Attack
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 accuses Britain of staging Syria chemical weapons attack
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 ...
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Western powers at UN make case for military action against Syria
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 ...
Russian lawmaker: U.S. strikes on Syria violate international law
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 ...
Netanyahu praises US strikes in Syria, warns about Iran
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. ...
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Russia-US tensions — latest updates: UK labels Moscow claims chemical attack in Syria was ...
'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 ...
Most rockets in Western attacks on Syria were intercepted: Russia
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 ...
Moscow says priority in Syria to avert US-Russia conflict
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) - ...
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Iran's Rouhani says Syria strike to lead to more destruction: Tasnim
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 attacks Syria with cruise missiles to deter more chemical attacks
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 ...
Syria strikes an 'important signal' to Iran and Hezbollah
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 ...
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The Latest: Russia: Missiles aimed at Syrian air base downed
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 says Western attack on Syria a crime
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. ...
Russia, Iran Denounce Airstrikes on Close Ally Syria
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 ...
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Iran: Attack on Syria is against intl. law
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 says Britain helped fake Syria chemical attack
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 ...
Analysis: Putin unlikely to leave strike on Syria unanswered
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 ...
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Officials speak to retaliation from Syrian regime after precision strikes in Syria
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-Iran union under threat
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 ...
