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Despite their publisher being gagged and silenced for the past couple of weeks, WikiLeaks is still functioning and seeking to bring truth to the public. On Monday, the news organization announced a $100,000 reward for confidential official information (in

There is very good reason not to commit to war or regime-change in Syria, and nothing shown on TV or the internet over the weekend changes that.

Chemical weapons have played a devastating role in the bloody civil war that has torn Syria apart.

President Trump told reporters at the White House this morning that he would make a decision in the next 24 to 48 hours on how to respond to the "heinous" chemical attack over the weekend in Syria's eastern Ghouta region. "This is about hu

Syria and Russia on Monday were blaming Israel for an air attack on a Syrian air base, after they initially blamed the U.S. for at attack that claimed the lives of 14 Iranian or Iranian-backed forces.

"At this time, the Department of Defense is not conducting airstrikes in Syria. However, we continue to closely watch the situation and support the ongoing diplomatic efforts to hold those who use chemical weapons, in Syria and otherwise, accountable," said the Pentagon statement.

A Syrian war-monitoring group says 14 people, including Iranians, were killed in a missile attack early in the morning on an air base in central Syria. U.S. officials said the United States had not launched any airstrikes on Syria.

Courtesy of the Syrian American Medical Society President Trump is denouncing a "mindless chemical attack in Syria." But two U.S. officials tell The Daily Beast it's unclear whether an illegal chemical weapon was actually dropped on the Damasc

Sen. John McCain on Sunday connected President Trump talking about withdrawing the U.S. military from Syria with a suspected chemical attack.

"More than 500 cases - the majority of whom are women and children - were brought to local medical centres with symptoms indicative of exposure to a chemical agent," according to a joint statement issued by the Syrian American Medical Society (SAMS) and the White Helmets.

People are dying, but the provenance of the chemical tools of war has become more a matter of politics than The post Chemical warfare hard to pin down by facts in Douma as in Salisbury appeared first on DEBKAfile .

"Many dead, including women and children, in mindless CHEMICAL attack in Syria. Area of atrocity is in lockdown and encircled by Syrian Army, making it completely inaccessible to outside world. President Putin, Russia and Iran are responsible for backing Animal Assad. Big price to pay," Trump said

Russia's Foreign Ministry said on Sunday reports of a gas attack in Syria were bogus and any military action taken based on such

Trump calls out Putin over Syria poison gas attack WASHINGTON President Donald Trump Sunday issued a rare direct rebuke of Vladimir Putin, blaming the Russian leader and Iran for making possible a deadly chemical attack against Syrian civilians, allegedly

Russian President Vladimir Putin said he had information that there is a plan to release chemical weapons in Syria and blame it on the Syrian authorities.

False flag designed to 'justify potential military strikes from the outside,' claims Foreign Ministry.

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that Saudi Arabia may have to pay for continuing America's military presence in war-ravaged Syria.

In a meeting with his national security team on Tuesday, Trump reluctantly agreed to keep U.S. troops in Syria for an undetermined period, an official said.

Regime change advocates, neocon beltway hawks, and all the usual armchair warrior zero-skin-in-the-game think tank interventionistas are in continued meltdown mode after Trump confirmed plans to withdraw American forces - some 2000+ troops and personnel -

The Syrian army paused its bombardment of Douma, the last rebel bastion near Damascus, after midnight, a war monitor said on Saturday, as insurgents prepared to leave the rest of their former enclave of eastern Ghouta.Thousands of fighters and their famil