A misdirected airstrike by the U.S.-led coalition earlier this week killed 18 allied fighters battling the Islamic State group in northern Syria, the U.S. military said Thursday.
he diverging opinion between US and Russia over Syria came out in open when President Vladimir Putin and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met on Wednesday.
The US has alleged that the Assad regime was behind the chemical attack last week on the town of Khan Sheikhun that left 87 civilians dead including children.
Russia's top diplomat today accused the United States of carrying out an unlawful attack against Syrian President Bashar Assad's forces as he opened a fraught meeting with visiting U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
The United States has warned Syria that it will pay a very heavy price if Damascus used chemical weapons again.
Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday claimed that the United States is planning "further provocations" in other locations in Syria including its capital Damascus.
Blasting Syrian President Bashar Assad for allegedly using chemical weapons against a rebel-controlled region of his own country, the White House on Tuesday said that Assad's behaviour was worse than that of Adolf Hitler , "who didn't even sink to us
US President Donald Trump's son Eric has said that his father's decision to launch a missile attack on a Syrian airbase was influenced by the reaction of his sister Ivanka.
The United States has concluded Russia knew in advance of Syria's chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official said Monday.
At least 18 people, including five children, were killed when warplanes on Saturday struck Syria’s northwestern province of Idlib, where a chemical attack had killed scores of people earlier this week.
Russia has reportedly suspended a communications hotline with Pentagon on Syria as the two countries clashed in United Nations over US missile strike in the war-torn country.
The United States and Russia launched scathing attacks on each other in the UN Security Council on Friday over the US missile attack on a Syrian airfield.
Russian Prime Minister on Friday said that the US missile strike in Syria has put Moscow and Washington "on the verge of a military clash."
The British government has backed the United States missile strikes on a Syrian air base, terming it as an ‘appropriate response’ to the incumbent President Bashar Assad’s chemical attack earlier this week.
Last night, the US launched 59 cruise missiles into Syria in the first direct military attack by the country on President Bashar al-Assad's regime since the civil war began.
Almost precisely 20 years to the day since the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) came into force, the United States has launched a military strike against Syria for using them against its own civilian population.
A military official quoted on Syrian TV said that an air base in central Syria was hit early Friday, causing material damage.
The chemical attack in Idlib province of Syria on Tuesday claimed lives of 22 members of a single family including 9-month-old twins, Aya and Ahmed.
The United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has said that at least 27 children were killed in the chemical attack in Idlib province of Syria on Tuesday.
Turkey on Thursday claimed that the chemical agent allegedly used in a recent attack in Syria could have been ‘Sarin’, a nerve agent that causes organophosphate poisoning.
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