Egypt's Coptic Church announced Wednesday that it would cut back Easter celebrations to a simple mass after twin bombings killed 45 worshipers last weekend. "Given the current circumstances and our solidarity with the families of the dead, we are going to limit our celebrations to Easter...

Five Sudanese soldiers have been killed while fighting for the Saudi Arabia-led coalition against Houthi forces in Yemen, a spokesman for Sudan's armed forces said on Wednesday. The statement was a rare acknowledgement of casualties suffered by Sudan since the east African nation sent...

( The Guardian )- Traces of sarin gas have been detected in blood and urine samples from victims wounded in the town of Khan Sheikhun in Syria, giving “concrete evidence” of its use in the attack, Turkey’s health minister has said. Doctors and aid workers who had examined the wounded of...

( New York Post )- Amid complaints that his aides are saying different things about Syria and his policy is confusing, President Trump emphatically cleared the air. “We’re not going into Syria,” he told me yesterday in an exclusive interview. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed....

Tensions between the United States and Russia will not "spiral out of control" following last week's U.S. cruise missile strikes on a Syrian air base, Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Tuesday, describing it as a one-off response to Syria's use of banned chemical weapons. President Donald...

President Donald Trump's administration accused Russia on Tuesday of trying to shield Syria's government from blame for a deadly gas attack, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson brought a Western message to Moscow condemning its support for President Bashar al-Assad. Trump, who has faced...

( The Washington Times )- U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued an ultimatum to Russia on Tuesday: Side with the U.S. and likeminded countries on Syria, or embrace Iran, militant group Hezbollah and embattled Syrian leader Bashar Assad. As he embarked on a trip to Moscow...

Borussia Dortmund's team bus was damaged and a player was injured following three explosions near the vehicle while it was on its way to Tuesday's Champions League game at home to AS Monaco, police said. The match, a quarter-final first leg, was called off and rescheduled for Wednesday....

Any new US action in Syria "will not go unanswered", Iran's Defense Minister Hossein Dehgan warned Tuesday after America threatened to follow up a strike last week with more attacks. The United States last week fired a volley of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase in response to an alleged...

The United States is looking into whether Russia was complicit in an alleged chemical weapons attack by the Syrian military on civilians, but has not yet made a determination, a senior administration official said Tuesday. The official said the US was continuing to gather intelligence on...

Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr Tuesday warned Syrian President Bashar Assad that he risked suffering the same fate as slain Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi if he did not step down. The maverick cleric had last week condemned the suspected deadly use of chemical weapons by Assad's forces against...

( The New Arab )- Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Tuesday that Ankara's findings showed the Syrian government still possessed chemical weapons capacity and urged for measures to prevent its potential usage. Speaking to state-run broadcaster TRT Haber in Italy, Cavusoglu...

U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson carried a unified message from world powers to Moscow on Tuesday, denouncing Russian support for Syria and taking up America's traditional role as leader of the West on behalf of Donald Trump's administration. Tillerson took off for Russia on...

A Reuters photographer at Moscow's Vnukovo airport said on Tuesday there was black smoke rising from a part of the airfield where planes are parked. U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to land at the airport on Tuesday afternoon to begin a visit to Moscow. The photographer said when...

The United States has concluded that Russia knew ahead of time that Syria would launch a chemical weapons attack last week, a senior U.S. official says. The official offered circumstantial elements to back up his claim, but no concrete proof. And others in the Trump administration cautioned...

Russia should abandon its support for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad after his repeated use of chemical weapons and join the United States to map out a peaceful future for Syria, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Tuesday. Tillerson's comments came an hour before he flew to...

G7 foreign ministers have failed to agree on whether fresh sanctions should be imposed on Syrian President Bashar Assad or his ally Russia, Italy's Foreign Minister Angelino Alfano said Tuesday. "At the moment there is no consensus on new sanctions as an effective instrument," he said at the...

G7 foreign ministers insist there can be no peace solution in war-torn Syria with President Bashar Assad in power, France's Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Tuesday. The top diplomats, meeting as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson readies for crunch talks in Moscow, were agreed...

The Iraqi military says ISIS has lost more than three-fourths of the territory it seized when it swept across the country in the summer of 2014. Brig. Gen. Yahya Rasool, a military spokesman, says the extremist group currently controls less than 30,000 square kilometers (12,000 sq. miles) in...

China social media users were in an uproar Tuesday over viral footage of a Chinese-American man dragged off an overbooked United Airlines flight, decrying perceived racism and calling for a boycott. The videos taken by fellow passengers and posted to Twitter showed the man being forcibly...