Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit said on Wednesday that a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in Syria that killed 72 people was "a major crime." "Targeting and killing civilians with these prohibited methods is considered a major crime and a barbaric act," Aboul Gheit...

( al-Araby al-Jadeed )- Russia defended its ally Damascus on Wednesday in the face of an international outcry over a chemical attack that killed scores of civilians in the rebel-held town of Khan Sheikhun, saying a Syrian airstrike hit a "terrorist warehouse". "According to the objective...

( The New Arab )- All evidence points to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad being behind the chemical weapons attack which left more than 70 dead in a rebel-held town, British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Wednesday. "All the evidence I have seen suggests this was the Assad regime......

At least 31 people were killed, including 14 police officers, and more than 40 wounded in attacks overnight by ISIS militants in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, security and medical sources said on Wednesday. The militants wore police uniforms and used a police vehicle to enter the city,...