“I now have responsibility, and I will have that responsibility and carry it very proudly,” Trump said responding to a question about a White House statement Tuesday that blamed the attack in part on President Barack Obama, Joinfo.com reports with ...

France, the United States and Britain blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s forces for the attack on Tuesday. The Syrian military denied responsibility and said it would never use chemical weapons, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Reuters. “We obviously are very ...

“The presidency denies all these reports. President Assad is in excellent health,” his office said in a statement, Joinfo.com reports with reference to IBT. “They [the reports] coincide with the changing circumstances in the field and politically.” A Facebook post ...

US President Trump on Friday closed the nation’s borders to refugees from around the world, ordering that families fleeing the slaughter in Syria be indefinitely blocked from entering the United States, and temporarily suspending immigration from several predominantly Muslim countries, ...

Bana and her little brother have been pictured sitting on Mr Erdogan’s knee in the presidential complex in Ankara, the BBC reports. President Erdogan sent a special representative to Syria to collect Bana and her family after they fled east ...

The UN’s human rights office said streets were full of bodies, the BBC reports. Meanwhile, the UN children’s agency (UNICEF) cited a doctor as saying a building housing as many as 100 unaccompanied children was under heavy attack, Rebels, who ...

Russia has repositioned artillery near the disputed city of Aleppo, several U.S. officials told Reuters. Despite withdrawing some fixed-wing aircraft in March, Russia has also bolstered its forces in Syria with advanced helicopter gunships, and renewed airstrikes against moderate opposition ...

CIA Director John Brennan visited Moscow to discuss the ceasefire in Syria, a political settlement in the country and a possible departure of President Bashar Assad, RIA Novosti reported citing the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia Oleg Syromolotov, Joinfo.ua reports. ...

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights described it as the heaviest assault yet in a three-week campaign by the Syrian army and allied militia fighters to recapture the desert city from Islamic State fighters, Reuters reports. Observatory director Rami Abdulrahman ...

The U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations Samantha Power noted that the U.S. aimed to work with Russia on Syria constructively. However, trading, or the exchange of the Syrian issue for the Ukrainian one was out of question, Power ...

Comments come days after announcing that Moscow’s military involvement in Syria would be wound down, the Guardian reports. “Of course, if required Russia will be ready in just a few hours to increase its forces in the region to a ...

Just under half of Russia’s fixed-wing strike force based in Syria has flown out of the country in the past two days, according to a Reuters calculation which suggests the Kremlin is accelerating its partial withdrawal. The precise number of ...

“The announcement that Russia will begin withdrawing some military forces from Syria signals Vladimir Putin’s belief that he has bombed and killed enough of the opponents of the murderous Assad regime to ensure its survival,” McCain said in a statement on March 14 on ...

Russia’s Defence Ministry published video on Youtube on Tuesday, showing the first group of war planes leaving ‎Hmeymim air base in Syria for permanent location airfields in the territory of the Russian Federation, Joinfo.ua reports with reference to TASS. The ...

U.S. President Barack Obama said in one of interviews published on March 10 that the fact that Russian President Vladimir Putin “invades Crimea or is trying to prop up Assad doesn’t suddenly make him a player,” Joinfo.ua reports with reference ...