RUSSIA has declared its “confidence” that World War 3 will not break out with Donald Trump following flaming tensions surrounding the recent coordinated attack in Syria against the regime of Bashar al-Assad.

In the two weeks since the Syrian city of Douma was struck by a suspected chemical weapons attack, the area has had many visitors.
First it was Syrian soldiers, fanning out across the area after five years of rebel control. Next came Russian military police, and then journalists traipsed through,...

Islamic State militants have agreed to give up their last pocket in Damascus, state media reports, as the government seeks to retake the entire Syrian capital and its surrounding areas for the first time since 2011.

RUSSIA has stepped up its war of words with the United States after a senior Kremlin minister warned the peace process had been harmed by the US-led air strikes in Syria a week ago. But have the bombings harmed the chance of peace returning to Syria?

, Washington Post
Donald Trump is not known for nuance, and so the timing of his pardon of former vice president Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, convicted of obstruction of justice and perjury more than a decade ago, aroused suspicions. Didn’t the president have better things to do, like meet with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to plan the attack on Syria? Was Trump really going to go where President George W. Bush himself resolved not to go, despite repeated and intense badgering by Cheney, who in the last days of the Bush presidency said to him, "I can’t...

April 21, 2018 12:45 AM
WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States is offering a reward of US$1 million (S$1.3 million) for information about Austin Tice, an American journalist missing in Syria since 2012.

The European Commission will present proposals to protect whistleblowers, combat fake news and organise the digital single market. The international community will gather in Brussels to discuss how to help Syrians in the current war and after.

, The New Yorker
Last Tuesday, after waking up to tweet about the previous day’s F.B.I. raid on his lawyer’s office ("a total witch hunt!!!"), President Trump called one of his outside Republican advisers to ask what to do about Syria, and its latest chemical-weapons attack on civilians. "We should bomb the shit out of them, Mr. President," came the answer, which was exactly the one Trump seemed to be looking for. Over the weekend, the President, outraged by the photographs of dead children in the Syrian enclave of Douma he had apparently seen on TV, had tweeted vows of...

AN ISIS base in Hajin, Syria, has been dismantled by an Iraqi airstrike on Thursday, as tensions continue to rise between the Assad regime, the US and the western world.

IRAQ launched airstrikes against ISIS in Syria on Thursday in coordination with the Syrian army, triggering fears a new anti-western Axis was being created in the region. The Iraqi government is working alongside Russia and Iran in support of the Assad regime – a new and bigger threat to the interests of the US, UK and western Europe.