Russia deployed its most advanced Black Sea frigate Friday into the eastern Mediterranean, where U.S. Navy destroyers had launched an airstrike earlier that day against the Moscow-backed Syrian military. As Russian leadership condemned the U.S.’ first intentional attack on the military of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad since the country’s six-year conflict began, Russia’s Admiral Grigorovich frigate […]
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Putin Accuses America Of Breaking International Law
Russian President Vladimir Putin is calling the missile strike President Trump ordered against Syria on Thursday “an act of aggression against a sovereign state delivered in violation of international law under a far-fetched pretext.” At Russia’s urging, an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council began shortly after 11:30 a.m. ET Friday to discuss the […]
Tremendous Progress Made In Talks With China Says Trump
“Tremendous progress” has been made in talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Donald Trump said on the summit’s second and final day. “I think truly progress has been made,” the US president said, declaring the relationship as “outstanding”. The two men and their staff sat face to face for talks at Mr Trump’s Mar-a-Lago retreat […]
US Launches 59 Tomahawk Missiles At Syrian Air Bases
The U.S. military attacked a Syria-government airfield with 59 Tomahawk missiles on Thursday evening. The missiles targeted the Shayrat air base near Homs, and were in response to a Tuesday chemical weapons attack. Officially announcing the strike, President Donald Trump said the targeted airfield had launched the chemical attack on a rebel-held area, and he […]
Trump Weighing Military Options In Syria
PALM BEACH, Fla. – The Trump administration is developing plans to respond to Syria’s apparent use of chemical weapons, including possible military action and attempts to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad from power, Trump and White House aides said Thursday. “I don’t want to say what I’m going to be doing with respect to Syria,” […]
ISIS Murders 33 Men In Syria
Islamic State killers used “sharp tools” to murder 33 people in Syria on Wednesday before dumping the bodies into a mass grave “filled with blood,” a human rights group said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the slaughter was “the largest execution operation carried out by [ISIS] in 2017.” The identities of the dead […]
China’s Xi Jinping Meets With President At Mar-a-Lago
What President Trump may refer to as “the art of the deal,” his guest at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday and Friday — Chinese President Xi Jinping — might call “win-win cooperation.” In this first summit meeting between the two leaders, both sides have things they are willing to give and get. Both will be sizing the […]
Arnold Says President Is Robbing Children Blind
In a speech in Los Angeles hours before he was to appear on CNN for a town-hall meeting, former California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger went after President Trump like a relentless cyborg, accusing him of stealing from children. Mr. Schwarzenegger, who took over as host of “Celebrity Apprentice” after Mr. Trump’s presidency-motivated departure, singled out Mr. […]
Trump Says Susan Rice Is Guilty
WASHINGTON – President Trump said on Wednesday that he thought that the former national security adviser Susan E. Rice may have committed a crime by seeking the identities of Trump associates who were mentioned on intercepted communications and that other Obama administration officials may also have been involved. “I think it’s going to be the […]
Syria Attack ‘Crossed Many, Many Lines’
President Donald Trump said that the attack in Syria on Tuesday “crossed a lot of lines for me,” but he did not specify how he would respond to it. His comments came during a press conference with Jordan’s King Abdullah II that began with Trump’s condemning the “heinous actions,” which left at least 72 people […]
Syrian Chemical Attack Leaves Over 100 Dead
A suspected chemical attack in a rebel-held Syrian town killed 100 people and injured 400 others, a medical relief group said, and some medics treating the wounded were later struck by rubble when an aircraft reportedly bombed a hospital. A hospital in Syria’s northern Idlib province was hit soon after the area was bombarded with […]
Trump Donates Salary To National Park Services
WASHINGTON – President Trump is donating $78,333.32 – a quarter of his annual salary – to the National Park Service, officials said Monday. White House spokesman Sean Spicer opened his daily press briefing by presenting a Trump-signed check to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and Tyrone Brandyburg, superintendent of the Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in […]