But Assad insisted it was "not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify a video? You have a lot of fake videos now."
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But Assad insisted it was "not clear whether it happened or not, because how can you verify a video? You have a lot of fake videos now."
Canada is open to more sanctions against Russia for its support of Syrian regime, PM says
US Navy has also uploaded footage from the guided-missile destroyer USS Porter as it was firing missiles at the airbase
The cruise missiles struck the airfield beginning around 8:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Thursday and the strikes continued for three to four minutes.
The strike came as Trump was hosting Xi in meetings focused in part on another pressing U.S. security dilemma: North Korea’s nuclear program.
THE United States has launched a military strike on Syria following the horrific chemical attack that shocked the world.
Trump ‘considering Syria military action’ US PRESIDENT Donald Trump is reportedly considering military action in Syria in retaliation for the horror chemical attack.
Meanwhile, Dmitry Peskov, spokesman for the Russian president, said the Kremlin believes the Syrian military will do its utmost to prevent chemical agents from falling into the hands of terrorists.
DONALD Trump has made an implicit threat to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after the shocking gas attack in the country that killed 72, including 11 children.
President Trump spoke about the recent chemical attack in Syria during a news conference with King Abdullah of Jordan on Wednesday. “That attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me,” he said.
US envoy to UN also accused Russia of failing to ensure that there were no chemical weapons in the possession of the Syrian government
The Trump Administration condemned a chemical weapons attack in Syria, accusing the government of strongman Bashar Assad of being behind the deadly attack that killed dozens — and blaming former President Barack Obama, too
A CHEMICAL attack has killed at least 35 people including nine children with many more wounded after air strikes released “toxic gas” that caused civilians to choke to death in the northwestern Syrian province of Idlib.
Under President Barack Obama, the United States made Assad’s departure one of its key objectives.
The Turkish military has successfully completed its 'Euphrates Shield' operation in northern Syria, the Turkish National Security Council has announced.
The attack comes just days before a fresh round of UN-brokered peace talks in Geneva aiming at ending Syria's six-year war.
The military actions did not go unnoticed both in the Middle East and further afield.
Any foreign forces, including those from the US, that enter Syria without invitation are invaders, Syrian President Bashar Assad told Chinese media in an interview, noting that no one had given the US troops currently in Manbij permission to be there.
The US military is deploying 2,500 troops from the 82nd Airborne Division to Kuwait, with the declared goal of taking part in operations against Islamic State (IS, previously ISIS/ISIL) in both Syria and Iraq, according to the Army Times.
American soldiers have been spotted traveling in an armored convoy near the Syrian city of Manbij, with a US spokesman calling it a “deliberate action” aimed at ensuring Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) is defeated.