MOSCOW - Russia on Friday predicted the global chemical weapons watchdog would present "pseudo evidence" in a report on an alleged chemical attack on the Syrian city of Douma. Medics and rescuers say 40 people died in a chlorine and sarin attack on Douma in April 7 that the West attributed to ...

MOSCOW - Russian President Vlad­imir Putin has warned that further Western attacks on violence-battered Syria would bring chaos to world affairs, taking a hard line on the conflict that is now under the radar of international players. The Russian president made his remarks in a telephone ...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan is following the situation in Syria with grave concern and has called all sides to refrain from actions inconsistent with the UN Charter. According to Foreign Office Spokesperson Dr Mohammad Faisal, Islamabad “condemns the use of chemical weapons anywhere by anyone”. He ...

LONDON - The British Prime Minister Theresa May fully advocated her country's action to join the US and French forces in a strike on Syrian capital Damascus on Friday, terming the operation right and legal. In a briefing at Downing Street on Saturday morning, May said she would have preferred an ...

DAMASCUS - In what appears to be a harbinger of more tension in war-ravaged Syria, the United States, Britain and France carried out a wave of strikes against Bashar al-Assad's regime on Friday, drawing the ire of Russia. The strikes were launched in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks ...