U.S. says Syria used chemical weapons in May attack
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says Syrian President Bashar Assad's government had used chlorine in the attack on opposition forces in Idlib province on May 19.
U.S. to consider new Russia sanctions over spy poisoning in U.K.
The State Department said in a statement that Russia has failed to meet a 90-day deadline that fell on Tuesday to comply with a 1991 U.S. law on preventing the use of chemical weapons.
U.S. lacks leverage as assault on Syrian enclave looms
The Trump administration has little leverage to stop Russia, Iran and Syria pressing ahead with a massive military assault against Syria's northwest Idlib province.
Chemical weapons inspectors collect samples from Syria site
Chemical weapons inspectors collected samples from Syria's Douma on Saturday, two weeks after a suspected gas attack there followed by retaliatory strikes by Western powers on the Syrian government's chemical facilities.
In the news wrap Wednesday, a visit by international inspectors to the Syrian town of Douma, site of a suspected chemical attack, was called off Tuesday after a UN security team faced gunfire there. Also, Iran put its military might…
In heated exchanges with his national security team in recent weeks, President Donald Trump repeatedly made clear he saw little incentive for the United States to be involved in Syria’s intractable civil war.
Russian President Putin on Saturday condemned a series of strikes on Syrian targets, calling the military action by the U.S. and its allies "an act of aggression against a sovereign state." Kimberly Marten, director of a program on U.S.-Russia relations…
President Donald Trump's choice of words recalled a similar claim associated with President George W. Bush following the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
President Trump says a "combined operation" with France and the United Kingdom is underway.
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