The Federal Government has said on Wednesday that it is taking serious the report that a terrorist group, the Islamic State was sending insurgents trained in Syria to the country as part of a terror exchange programme. Government disclosed that report is going through adequate examination, adding that all that is needed to be done […]
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In one of the deadliest attacks in the Syrian capital in the country’s seven-year civil war, at least 44 people, most of them women and children, were killed when insurgents fired mortar shells on a busy market in Damascus, state media said Wednesday. In another bloody scene, an airstrike killed 21 – 16 of them […]
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French cement group Lafarge paid close to 13 million euros ($15.2 million) to armed groups including Islamic State militants to keep operating in Syria from 2011-2015, human rights lawyers said on Tuesday. They were speaking at a news conference on the course of French prosecutors’ preliminary inquiry into Lafarge’s operations launched in June on suspicion […]
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The United States warned Monday that efforts to uphold the global ban on the production and use of chemical weapons are at a “critical juncture” in the wake of their use during Syria’s civil war. As the Syrian government and its allies seek to discredit conclusions by international investigators that Damascus has repeatedly used such […]
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Oil rose towards $56 a barrel on Monday, supported by another shutdown at Libya’s largest oilfield, tension over Syria following the U.S. missile strike and signs that an OPEC-led supply cut is helping to clear excess supplies. Libya’s Sharara oilfield was shut on Sunday after a group blocked a pipeline linking it to an oil […]
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U.S.-led coalition aircraft struck two locations in northern Syria on Saturday, killing at least 21 people, including a woman and her six children who were on a boat fleeing clashes between the Islamic State group and U.S.-backed fighters, activist groups said. Activist groups that operate in IS-held territory and are opposed to the militants have […]
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The United States “drew the line” over Bashar Assad’s use of chemical weapons and is “prepared to do more” to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria, senior officials have said. President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles on a Syrian air base in retaliation for the regime’s “barbaric” use of […]
Read MoreThe United States has warned it is “prepared to do more” to stop the horrors that are taking place in Syria under Bashar Assad. President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of cruise missiles on a Syrian air base in retaliation for the regime’s “barbaric” use of chemical weapons against its own people. Nikki Haley, the […]
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For many supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump, his decision to bomb a Syrian airfield in retaliation for a poison gas attack was a decisive show of strength and resolve – just what they voted for in November. In interviews with more than a dozen Trump voters, many acknowledged that getting the U.S. military directly […]
Read More Oil prices surged more than 2 percent to a one-month high on Friday after the United States launched dozens of cruise missiles at an airbase in Syria, later dropping back as there seemed no immediate threat to supplies. U.S President Donald Trump said he had ordered missile strikes against a Syrian airfield from which a […]
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The United States warned Wednesday that it could take unilateral action if the United Nations fails to respond to a suspected chemical attack in Syria that has left scores dead, including children. The warning came from US Ambassador Nikki Haley during an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council called by France and Britain following […]
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More than 800 health workers have died in “acts of war crimes” in Syria since 2011, in hospital bombings, shootings, torture and executions perpetrated mainly by government-backed forces, researchers said Wednesday. The Syrian government and its ally, Russia, have turned the violent withholding of healthcare into a weapon of war, according to an analysis published […]
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