Syrian President Bashar Assad’s comments that last week’s chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US military strike are “100 percent lies”, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday.
In his lengthy interview with AFP on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar Assad mused that the American “Deep State” was more responsible for pelting his Sharyat airbase with 59 cruise missiles than President Donald Trump.
After spending days claiming it would welcome United Nations involvement in the Syrian chemical weapons attack, Russia used its veto power on the U.N. Security Council to block a resolution condemning the attack and calling for its perpetrators to be brought to justice.
Thursday in an interview with Agence France-Presse, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said the chemical attack on civilians in Syria which resulted in U.S. airstrikes was “100 percent” fabricated. Assad said, “It’s not clear whether it happened or not. How can
In an interview with the AFP news service on Thursday, Syrian President Bashar Assad claimed last week’s chemical weapons attack in the Idlib province was a “100 percent fabrication.”
Wednesday brought another round of hard language between Russia and the United States over Syria, with Turkey chipping in to declare Syrian dictator Bashar Assad guilty of war crimes.
War is like crack for presidents. It confers instant gravitas, catapulting them to respectability, bypassing all station stops. They get to make macho pronouncements on a topic where every utterance is seen as august.
Wednesday in Moscow at a press conference with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said it was “possible the case will be made” to charge the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with war crimes for the use
U.S. President Donald Trump, in an exclusive interview on Fox Business, described Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad as a “butcher” and “truly an evil person,” noting that the relationship between Syria and Russia is “bad for mankind.”
Dr. Sebastian Gorka, former Breitbart News National Security editor and current deputy assistant to President Trump, discussed Syria policy on Wednesday’s edition of Breitbart News Daily.
Frank Gaffney, Center for Security Policy president, joined SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Wednesday’s Breitbart News Daily to discuss Gaffney’s warning that things can get worse in Syria.
UNITED NATIONS – The UN Security Council will vote Wednesday on a draft resolution demanding that the Syrian government cooperate with an investigation of the suspected chemical attack last week in Idlib province, US diplomats said.
ANKARA — Turkey said on Tuesday that tests proved the deadly nerve agent sarin was used in a suspected chemical attack in northwestern Syria which killed dozens last week.
Tuesday at a press conference at the Pentagon, Defense Secretary James Mattis said there was “no doubt” that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for the chemical attack last week in Syria. Mattis said, “Last Tuesday, the Syrian regime attacked
White House press secretary Sean Spicer scrambled to correct himself during the daily press briefing after trying to argue that Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was worse than Hitler.
Public support for Donald Trump’s decision to launch airstrikes against the Syrian regime is low compared to support for previous foreign actions, according to the latest Gallup poll.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Monday that dictator Bashar al-Assad had killed “more of his own people” in the recent chemical attack in Syria and that he hopes Assad “will not be a part” of the future in that country.
On Tuesday, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-HI) wrote an email to The Hill, pushing back against criticism of her criticism of President Donald Trump’s missile strike in Syria.
LUCCA, Italy (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued an ultimatum to Russia on Tuesday: Side with the U.S. and likeminded countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad.
Hezbollah is “very challenged” at the moment due to its ongoing military support of Syrian President Bashar Assad’s regime, a top IDF official told the Hebrew news site Walla in an interview published on Monday.
The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria’s chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
Defeating the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) remains the United States’ primary goal in Syria, not toppling the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad, according to high-ranking officials in President Donald Trump’s administration.
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson took the highly symbolic opportunity of a visit to the Sant’Anna di Stazzema memorial in Italy – a memorial to the victims of a Nazi massacre – to declare Americans would “rededicate ourselves to holding to account any and all who commit crimes against the innocents anywhere in the world.”
In 2014, Secretary of State John Kerry raced from one talk show to the next, congratulating himself for completely eliminating chemical weapons from Syria.
Monday at the White House press briefing, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said he could not “imagine a stable and peaceful Syria” where President Bashar al-Assad remained in power. Partial transcript as follows: REPORTER: President Trump has spoken out extensively about
Michael Savage spoke out forcefully against intervention in Syria and aggression towards Russia during both Thursday’s and Friday’s monologue segments of the Michael Savage Show. Savage asked Thursday, “who got to you, Mr. President? Who is whispering in your ear and could have made you make this dramatic of a change towards Russia in just three days?” On Friday he condemned the strikes, saying “we just helped ISIS.”
JERUSALEM, Israel — U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to launch a Tomahawk missile attack against a Syrian airbase last week received praise from Israeli politicians from across the political spectrum.
Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” while discussing Syrian jets continuing to take off from the air base hit by a U.S. missile strike in response to a deadly chemical attack, Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
Sunday on CBS’s “Face The Nation,” Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was responsible for last week’s deadly chemical attack, but suggested he was enabled by the Russian government. “The Russians have played now for some
Contents: Russia’s policies thrown into confusion as US resumes its ‘world policeman’ role; President Trump reinstates the ‘Truman Doctrine’; Shock and euphoria follow the missile strike on Syria
Russia reacted to U.S. military strikes on its ally Syria Friday by cutting a hotline intended to prevent midair incidents, a response that demonstrates Moscow’s readiness to defy Washington and could even put the two nuclear superpowers on a course toward military confrontation.
Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday called on Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) to reconvene the just-recessed Congress for debate on the United States’ Thursday night airstrikes on a Syrian military airbase.
Seven wounded Syrians—two children, four women and a man—waited in pain for darkness to fall to cross into enemy territory. Under the faint moonlight, Israeli military medical corps quickly whisked the patients across the hostile frontier into armored ambulances headed to hospitals for intensive care.
Democratic lawmakers have responded with mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s decision to carry out military strikes on a Syrian air base that was the site of a chemical attack on Syrian civilians this week.
China’s state newspaper The Global Times published an editorial criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to conduct airstrikes in Syria, suggesting it was made “in haste,” but also observed that Trump appears to want “prove to the world that he is no ‘businessman president.'”
The majority of countries in the world, including Western nations, have been “cooperating” with the Syrian regime throughout the ongoing civil war, claimed the country’s dictator Bashar al-Assad in an interview with a state-owned Croatian media outlet.
The government of Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has condemned U.S. airstrikes on a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged chemical weapons attack by Assad troops that killed dozens of civilians, including children.
In response to President Donald Trump’s order for airstrikes on dictator Bashar al-Assad’s military assets in Syria on Thursday night, the Bolivian government asked for an emergency meeting of the United Nations Security Council to discuss the developments.
Did Donald Trump jump the shark when he dropped those bombs?
Contents: President Trump orders missile strikes on Bashar al-Assad’s Syria; Philippines president Duterte orders military to occupy South China Sea islands; Philippines sends warship to Benham Rise to protect from China
