( Reuters )- The situation in Syria "amounts to an international armed conflict" following U.S. missile strikes on a Syrian airbase, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) told Reuters on Friday. The United States fired cruise missiles at a base from which President Donald Trump...

By Kareem Shaheen ( The Guardian )- Khan Sheikhun is a ghost town, its streets deserted and silent as though mourning the victims of the atrocity that occurred here two days earlier. The only reminder of what happened is a small, blackened, crater near the northern part of town, where...

( AFP )- A U.S. missile strike on an airbase in central Syria early Friday was "foolish and irresponsible," President Bashar Assad's office said. "What America did is nothing but foolish and irresponsible behavior, which only reveals its short-sightedness and political and military blindness...

The Russian military says it will help Syria strengthen its air defences after the US strike on a Syrian air base, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Russian defence ministry spokesman Maj Gen Igor Konashenkov said that a “complex of measures” to strengthen Syrian air defences will be...