April 15, 2018 White House reacts to Macron's claim France 'convinced' Trump to keep US troops in Syria The White House reacted Sunday night to France’s claim that it “convinced” President Donald Trump to maintain the U.S. military presence in Syria, shortly after the two allies took part in airstrikes against the Assad regime.
April 15, 2018 US to hit Russia with new sanctions after Syria airstrike, Haley says The Trump administration will levy new economic sanctions against Russia over its support of Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said Sunday.
April 15, 2018 Russia acting like a 'rogue' country with its Syria support, UK ambassador says Russia is acting like "one of those rogue countries" in its support of the Syrian regime after the deadly chemical weapons attack earlier this month, British Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce told ӣƵ on Sunday.
April 15, 2018 Strikes against Syrian regime bolster locals' hopes that U.S. will stay for long haul A convoy of tanks rolled down a rubbled road outside the northern Syrian city of Manjib Saturday afternoon, just hours after news that the U.S and allied forces had struck a number of Syrian regime facilities in and around the capital of Damascus.
April 14, 2018 The US attack on Syria is completely legal and utterly moral. Here’s what Trump’s critics need to know President Trump’s action to attack Syria was exceptionally well-grounded legally. Self-evident moral authority supports using any reasonable means to protect innocents from the moral outrage of chemical weapons.
April 14, 2018 Judith Miller: Trump says 'Mission Accomplished' in Syria but his broader strategy is still hard to discern President Trump was able to declare "mission accomplished" by tweet just hours after a missile attack struck three key chemical weapons facilities in Syria early Saturday because the strike was limited, clearly defined and multilaterally endorsed.
April 14, 2018 Russian trolls ramp up disinformation campaign after Syria airstrikes: Pentagon Following the U.S.-led coalition strikes on Syria to degrade chemical weapons capabilities, the Pentagon says it's seen a “2,000 percent increase” in the Russian “disinformation campaign.”
April 14, 2018 Trump strikes Syria, media fire back, and other examples of their war against the president Following the missile attack by U.S., French and British forces on Syrian chemical weapons targets that President Trump announced Friday, the anti-Trump media immediately fired back at the president, wondering if he ordered the strike to divert attention from news coverage of his troubles at home.
April 14, 2018 Why targeting Syria's chemical weapons is not enough to stop rising civilian death toll By firing 105 missiles at Syrian chemical weapons targets before dawn Saturday, the U.S., Britain and France sent a clear message to dictator Bashar Assad: they will not tolerate his regime’s use of toxic gas and other weapons of mass destruction against his own citizens.
April 14, 2018 Steve Hilton: US attack on Syria deserves populist support Ever since Syrian dictator Bashar Assad’s latest chemical weapons atrocity last weekend, many of President Trump’s strongest supporters have gone out of their way to caution against a military response from the United States.