( Reuters )- Oil prices held near one-month highs on Friday after the United States attacked a Syrian air base but stocks and the dollar recovered early falls when a U.S. official played down the risks of an escalation. The U.S. dollar recouped all of its losses against a basket of major...

( Reuters )- The United States fired dozens of cruise missiles at a Syrian airbase on Friday from which it said a deadly chemical weapons attack was launched this week, an escalation of the U.S. military role in Syria that swiftly drew sharp criticism from Russia. Two U.S. warships fired 59...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House studied military options. Facing his biggest foreign crisis since taking office in January, Trump suggested...

( Independent )- Donald Trump is said to be considering the US’ military options in Syria’s civil war as the international fallout over an alleged chemical gas attack on a rebel town escalates. Mr Trump had said that the deaths of more than 70 people in Khan Sheikhoun had changed his...