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Syria will see US price for chemical attack as worth paying

Syria will see US price for chemical attack as worth paying

Donald Trump’s Twitter warning that a big, albeit unspecified, price will be paid for Bashar al-Assad’s alleged use of chemical weapons on innocent civilians in Douma points to some form of punitive military strike being launched by western forces. The tweet is all the more remarkable for containing some of Trump’s first direct criticism of […]

April 9, 2018 | By | Reply More
US launches 59 missiles on Assad forces in Syria in response to chemical attack

US launches 59 missiles on Assad forces in Syria in response to chemical attack

US president Donald trump has launched a huge military strike on Syria following a sickening chemical attack, officials confirmed. 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles were launched from US Navy destroyers at an airbase in the country in the early hours of Friday morning. Trump’s sudden change in foreign policy crisis since taking office in January, US […]

April 7, 2017 | By | Reply More
Heartbroken dad buries his twin children and wife died in Syria gas attack

Heartbroken dad buries his twin children and wife died in Syria gas attack

Father devastated after his twin children and wife were killed in a suspected chemical attack in Syria wept over their graves as they were buried. Shocked and heartbroken Abdul Hamid Youssef consoled fellow mourners as he broke down in tears and crouched down next to their burial plots. He said he was devastated he lost […]

April 6, 2017 | By | Reply More
Syria’s Assad launched chemical attack on his own people, then bombed the hospital treating victims

Syria’s Assad launched chemical attack on his own people, then bombed the hospital treating victims

The worst chemical bombings in Syria turned a toxic kill zone in rebel held town on Tuesday, inciting international outrage over the ever-increasing government impunity shown in the country’s six-year war. US and its western leader’s including President Trump blamed the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad and called on its patrons, Russia and Iran, […]

April 5, 2017 | By | Reply More
Over 100 dead, 400 injured after Syria’s Bashar al Assad ordered chemical attack on Rebels

Over 100 dead, 400 injured after Syria’s Bashar al Assad ordered chemical attack on Rebels

Syrian government chemical attack killed scores of people, including children in Syria, US President Donald Trump condemned the “heinous actions by the Bashar al-Assad regime,”. A monitoring group, medics and rescue workers in the rebel-held area said the attack took place in the early morning hours. The US government report came later the chemical agent […]

April 5, 2017 | By | Reply More
Children among 58 killed after Syria’s Bashar al Assad launches chemical attack on Rebels

Children among 58 killed after Syria’s Bashar al Assad launches chemical attack on Rebels

Syrian jets pounded rebel held areas killing at least 58 people among them 11 children, airstrikes appears to be a chemical attack on rebel-held areas in north-western Syria on Tuesday, a monitoring group reported. Emerging reports from the monitoring group claimed that Tuesday attacks on Khan Sheikhoun area in Idlib province, used a toxic gas […]

April 4, 2017 | By | Reply More
Iraqi families devastated as details of ISIS chemical attack emerge

Iraqi families devastated as details of ISIS chemical attack emerge

Erbil Hospital emergency cell was on alert as five small children lie in beds, along with their mother, all wrapped in bandages, with chemical burns from a mortar attack that hit their house. Eastern Mosul family is from a neighborhood called Giraj al-Shimal, they are among the 15 people who had been brought to Erbil […]

March 7, 2017 | By | Reply More
First chemical attack in Iraq’s Mosul, several victims treated for toxic agents

First chemical attack in Iraq’s Mosul, several victims treated for toxic agents

Seven children and two women are receiving treatment for exposure to chemical agents after chlorine gas attack took place near Iraqi city of Mosul. Islamic State is fighting US-backed Iraqi forces, the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Friday. There is significant increase in number of civilians escaping the fighting in Mosul as […]

March 3, 2017 | By | Reply More
Syria forces retake 6 Aleppo rebel areas, civilians flee

Syria forces retake 6 Aleppo rebel areas, civilians flee

Syria forces have retaken a third of rebel-held territory in Aleppo, forcing nearly 10,000 civilians to flee as they pressed their offensive to retake Syria’s second city. In a major breakthrough in the push to retake the whole city, regime forces captured six rebel-held districts of eastern Aleppo over the weekend, including Masaken Hanano, the […]

November 28, 2016 | By | Reply More
Iraqi girl dies after IS chemical attack

Iraqi girl dies after IS chemical attack

Mar 11, – “She died of respiratory complications and kidney failure… caused by the mustard agent used by Daesh (IS) in Taza,” said Masrour Aswad, of the Iraqi Commission for Human Rights. A three-year-old Iraqi girl wounded in a chemical attack by the Islamic State group died in hospital Friday, medical sources and officials said. […]

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