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Damascus, SANA – Deputy Foreign and Expatriates Minister Fayssal Mikdad stressed that a few weeks ago, the Syrian government provided the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) with information on the transporting of toxic substances into Syria by Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization, affirming that Syria stands against using chemical weapons by anyone, anywhere, […]

In an interview, Trump said that American can handle North Korean threat even without China’s help Trump is set to host Chinese President Xi Jinping this week at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida U.S., South Korea, and Japan conducted joint naval drills Monday against North Korea’s growing submarine threats WASHINGTON, U.S. – As several nations […]

Medical workers in rebel-held Idlib province struggling to cope as scores die and hundreds wounded following incident. Hospitals across Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province are overwhelmed with casualties from a suspected chemical attack that has killed scores of people and wounded hundreds more, a local health official has told Al Jazeera. The attack in the early […]

A car bomb rammed into a cafe in the Somali capital Mogadishu near compounds housing government ministries on Wednesday, killing seven people, officials and ambulance services said. Reuters witnesses said the blast destroyed the cafe and damaged another one. Three cars destroyed and blood stained the floor. Smoke billowed from the scene. “So far we […]

Russia has banned an image showing Vladimir Putin in heavy makeup. In the photograph, Putin has red lips and painted eyelashes, and a suggestive caption reads, “They say there are many of them, but there aren’t any among the people I know.” Last week, the Justice Ministry formally added the image described above to its […]

Nuclear-armed North Korea fired off a medium-range ballistic missile Wednesday morning into the Sea of Japan, just days ahead of a key summit between the U.S. and Chinese leaders expected to focus on reining in Pyongyang’s weapons programs. The U.S. Pacific Command said it had detected and tracked the launch, which occurred at 6:42 a.m., […]

WASHINGTON—The online ad reads like something only a metallurgist could love: an offer to sell 22 pounds of highly pure lithium 6 every month, set for delivery from the port of Dandong, China. But it caught the attention of intelligence agencies around the world for a simple reason: Lithium 6 offers a fast way to […]

Abadi pointed out that the Iraqi forces liberated the left side of Mosul completely, and more than half of the right side has so far been liberated, adding that “We liberated the province of Nineveh after we were away from it 300 kilometers.” He stressed that the IS militants are left with with only two […]

By Amy Goodman and Juan González, Democracy Now! | Video Interview  Seventy-five days ago today, Donald Trump was sworn in as the 45th president of the United States. Trump has expanded US military operations in Iraq, Syria, Yemen and Somalia, while resuming arms sales to Bahrain. At the United Nations, the Trump administration led a […]