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French foreign minister Jean-Yves Le Drian arrives to give a statement on Saturday morning. Photo: Michel Euler /Pool / AFP  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said on Saturday that missile strikes carried out overnight in Syria had destroyed a “large part” of the Damascus government’s stocks of chemical weapons. French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le […]

Russian President Vladimir Putin © Mikhail Klimentyev / AFP The US and its allies struck civil and military facilities in Syria, violating the UN Charter and international law, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, responding to the American-French-British intervention in Syria. Washington launched “an aggression against a sovereign state which is at the forefront of the fight […]

The US, UK and France have launched strikes “on targets associated with the chemical weapons capabilities” in Syria, US President Donald Trump announced early on Saturday. The strikes come after a suspected chemical weapons attack in the former rebel stronghold of Douma last weekend.  Here are all the latest updates on the strikes:  Germany: Strikes were ‘necessary and appropriate’ […]

The retired French colonel Mr. Alain Corvez has stressed that nobody can win the nuclear war being prepared by unreasonable western leaders of today over false flags pretexts, regretting the bad diplomacy of France which accepted to be a valet of the Atlantic Alliance and a member of the US-led “evil axis”. He told the […]

Russia said in Friday’s UNSC meeting that its specialists found no traces of chemical weapons in Douma [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] Russia said in Friday’s UNSC meeting that its specialists found no traces of chemical weapons in Douma [Eduardo Munoz/Reuters] The UN Security Council has held an emergency meeting called by Russia to discuss what it describes as a threat […]

The remains of an Iranian drone that was shot down by the Israeli Air Force after it penetrated Israeli airspace on February 10, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces) Thwarted attack was first direct Iranian targeting of Israel; drone was sent from T-4 base in Syria, where 7 Iranians were killed in alleged devastating Israeli airstrike this […]

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court   on Friday ruled that disqualification of lawmakers  under Article 62(1) (f) of the Constitution   disqualification is permanent. Nawaz Sharif and  Jahangir Khan Tareen were also disqualified under the same provision of the  constitution. A five-member larger bench of the apex court, headed by Chief Justice Mian Saqib Nisar,  announced the reserved […]

As a part of Orphan Solidarity Days, a Turkish humanitarian agency went to Somalia, which suffers from famine and drought, to respond to the needs of the hundreds of orphans of the country Support for Somalia from the Turkish government and nongovernmental organizations continue without a respite. The latest humanitarian project was recently launched by […]

Budget director Mick Mulvaney is developing a proposal, expected to be released around May 1, to re-open the $1.3 trillion omnibus package. President Donald Trump speaks to reporters in the Diplomatic Room of the White House on March 23 after signing the spending bill, vowing never to support another piece of legislation like that again. […]

Kollegah and Farid Bang. Photo: DPA The awarding of the most prestigious prize in German pop music to two rappers who made fun of Holocaust victims has been described by an influential Jewish organization as “a scandal.” At the annual Echo Awards on Thursday evening the rappers Kollegah and Farid Bang were awarded the best […]