New York Times | Assad Says Videos of Dead Children in Syria Chemical Attack Were Faked New York Times Vilified by accusations of using a chemical bomb, Syria's president intensified his counterpropaganda campaign on Thursday, suggesting that child actors had staged death scenes to malign him and that American warplanes had bombed a terrorist ... Assad calls Syria chemical attack a 'fabrication,' dismisses evidence Bashar Assad: Chemical attack on Syrian town a 'fabrication' Syria's Bashar al-Assad labels Idlib chemical attack 'fabrication' to justify US strike |
Washington Post | US-led coalition accidentally bombs Syrian allies, killing 18 Washington Post A U.S. drone struck and killed at least 18 members of an allied Syrian force this week, the Pentagon said, in the worst friendly fire incident of the war against the Islamic State. The Tuesday strike south of Tabqa, a strategic town in northern Syria ... 18 Syrian Fighters Allied With US Are Killed in Coalition Airstrike 'Misdirected' Airstrike By US-Led Coalition Kills 18 Allied Fighters In Syria US military says misdirected airstrike in northern Syria killed 18 allied fighters |
CNN | Were Trump's Syrian missile strikes morally justified? 5 religious experts respond CNN But Trump, who was raised Presbyterian, couched his justification for the US missile strikes against Syria last week in unusually religious terms. Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad had attacked his own citizens with chemical weapons, Trump said, echoing ... Trump says he made decision about Syrian strike over cake What Syria taught us about Donald Trump Lavrov says Russia, US agree US strikes on Syria should not be repeated: Interfax |
New York Times | Afghanistan, United Airlines, Syria: Your Thursday Evening Briefing New York Times The U.S. military is investigating a friendly fire case that killed 18 allied fighters in Syria. It was the third time in a month that American-led airstrikes had killed allies or civilians. And a U.S. naval strike force is being joined by Japanese ... |
Fox News | Syrian First Lady Asma Assad's social media posts reflect 'alternate reality,' critics say Fox News The Instagram account of Bashar Assad's wife is adorned with tender snapshots: Asma Assad reading to Syrian children; holding an infant inside a maternity hospital in Damascus; embracing the family of a Syrian who was killed in the nation's civil war ... Asma al-Assad portrays alternate reality of life in Syria |
Washington Post | US berates Syria at OPCW meeting on Syrian chemical attack Washington Post THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Syrian authorities — “abetted by Russia's continuing efforts to bury the truth” — still possess and use chemical weapons, an American diplomat told the international chemical weapons watchdog on Thursday. The strong ... |
NBCNews.com | Syria's Bashar Assad: Chemical Weapons Attack Is '100 Percent Fabrication' NBCNews.com In his first interview since the deadly gas poisoning in Idlib, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad said accusations of a chemical weapons attack were "100 percent fabrication" used to justify American air strikes. The U.S. and others blame him for what ... |
Fox News | From Afghanistan to Syria: Trump's major military operations in his first 100 days Fox News The United States military dropped its largest non-nuclear bomb on an ISIS tunnel complex in Afghanistan on Thursday, the latest overseas military operation under President Donald Trump. The president has authorized three major military missions since ... |
Bloomberg | Trump Said No to Troops in Syria. His Aides Aren't So Sure. Bloomberg It's not just that Trump struck the Syrian regime after last week's chemical weapons attack on rebels outside of Damascus. It's not just his recent reversals on Chinese currency manipulation and the NATO alliance. The president's biggest foreign policy ... |
Newsweek | Syrian Military Claims 'Hundreds' Killed After US Airstrike Hits ISIS Chemical Weapons Site Newsweek The Syrian army claimed Thursday that an airstrike conducted by a U.S.-led coalition struck a chemical weapons facility used by the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS, resulting in the deaths of hundreds of civilians due to toxic fumes. The U.S ... Syria claims "hundreds" killed by strike on ISIS chemical cache US denies claim by Syrian army that coalition air strike hit Isis gas supplies releasing substance that 'killed ... US Denies Syria's Claim That Airstrike Hit ISIS Gas Depot, 'Killing Hundreds' |