( The Guardian )- At least three people have been killed and eight injured after a truck drove into pedestrians in a busy shopping area of central Stockholm, according to police. Officers said they were treating the incident as terror-related and the prime minister, Stefan Löfven, said...

In a post on Facebook , the Russian prime minister, Dmitry Medvedev, has written about “completely ruined relations” between Russia and the US. He said: That’s it. The last remaining election fog has lifted. Instead of an overworked statement about a joint fight against the...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- Two warplanes took off from a central Syrian air base Friday hours after it was struck by U.S. missiles and bombed targets nearby, activists said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the aircraft "took off from inside the Shayrat base, which is partially back in...

( AFP )- European Parliament head Antonio Tajani has banned a top Syrian official from a conference on the conflict after the suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town earlier this week. Tajani sent a message to left-wing MEP Javier Couso warning that Syrian Deputy Foreign Minister...

( 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...

(The New Arab)- US and Kuwaiti authorities assisted Philippine security services in arresting a Middle Eastern couple with suspected links to the Islamic State group, officials said Friday. The couple are suspected to have been planning bomb attacks in Kuwait and possibly the Philippines....

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...

( Reuters )- German Chancellor Angela Merkel said on Friday an attack by the United States on a Syrian airbase from which it said a chemical weapons attack was launched this week was understandable given the Syrian people's suffering. "The attack of the United States is understandable given...

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 done...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 76 regime troops, including 14 officers, from Hama province were killed in March by rebels and the Islamic State, pro-regime activists said. Most of the soldiers were killed in the northern countryside of Hama when rebels launched a major attack three weeks ago. ...

( AFP )- China Friday warned against "further deterioration" of the situation in Syria, just hours after a U.S. airstrike on a Syrian airbase in response to a suspected chemical attack. The warning came as Xi Jinping met with U.S. President Donald Trump at his Florida resort in Mar-a-Lago,...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- A military pilot who once served in Shayrat airport shed the light on strategic airbase that was hit early Friday by 59 US Tomahawk missiles in a disciplinary act by Donald Trump administration over the deadly chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun town last Tuesday that left 103...

(Zaman Al Wasl)- At least 11 people killed Friday in a Russian airstrike on Idlib province hours after U.S. air strikes on regime air base in central Syria left 6 soldiers killed, activists said. The provocative strike by Russia on Heesh town and neighboring villages in the southern...

( Reuters )- Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Friday he hoped U.S. missile strikes on Syria would not irreparably damage relations between Moscow and Washington. "This is an act of aggression, on an absolutely made-up pretext," Lavrov told a news conference in Tashkent,...

( New York Times )- President Trump ordered a barrage of missiles to strike an airfield in Syria on Thursday evening in response to the use of chemical weapons by Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria. Here are some things we know — and don’t know — about the president’s actions. What We...

( 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...

( AFP )- Russia wants an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council to discuss U.S. missile strikes on Syria, the Russian Foreign Ministry said Friday, describing the action as "thoughtless". The ministry said in a statement that Russia was also suspending a Syrian air safety agreement...

( AFP )- Saudi Arabia said Friday that it "fully backs" a U.S. airstrike on a Syrian government airbase in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town. "Saudi Arabia fully supports the U.S. military operations against military targets in Syria, which were a...

( Reuters )- Syria's information minister said Friday the U.S. strike that hit a Syrian army airbase in Homs province was "limited" and he did not expect any further military escalation. "I believe this strike was limited in time and space, and it was expected," Ramez Turjman said in a phone...