Russia launches airstrikes on Syrian rebels after suspected chlorine attack
A rebel alliance denied they were behind the attack.
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A rebel alliance denied they were behind the attack.
The Irish government has yet to make a statement on the three allies’ airstrikes.
Tom Clonan analyses the case for the US to send a message with airstrikes in Syria – but the consequences could be far-reaching and costly.
The strikes also killed 11 rebel fighters and wounded 16 civilians.
Hammam al-Alil’s sulphur springs and reopened spa have become a spot where the soldiers fighting in Mosul and the civilians fleeing it meet for a rare moment of relaxation.
‘We don’t know whether those dead children were killed there … Were they dead at all?’
“The United States will no longer wait for Assad to use chemical weapons without any consequences.”
Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still inside west Mosul, caught up in deadly fighting between Islamic State and Iraqi forces.
Attempts to reach agreement failed after Russia refused US demands that it promise to ground the Syrian air force.
The week-long ceasefire in the war-ravaged country has collapsed.
Rebels battling the Syrian regime and the political opposition are still weighing whether to abide by the agreement.
Brutality in Saudi Arabia, Yemen and elsewhere has been largely overlooked by western media outlets, Julien Mercille writes.
Syria’s state news agency SANA said at least 300 civilians were killed.
We’re all gung-ho for a counter attack but we need a conversation, writes Rob McDonnell.
MPs have backed a vote to join the anti-IS coalition.
British MPs will vote on extending its bombing campaign against Islamic State militants later today.
The eastern European country, which borders Syria, has finally entered the fray.
The beleaguered Middle Eastern state is facing civil war.
From the rise of extremist groups in the Middle East, to conflict on the fringes of Europe, it’s clear the world is entering a new age of international relations.
IS fighters near the Turkish border were among the targets of the strikes.
It is time to stop air strikes and let the people of the Middle East decide their own fate – together and without interference.
Why has there been a spate of beheadings? What should the group be referred to as? Has the West just gone to war with them?
Ireland’s Foreign Affairs Minister Charlie Flanagan said Europeans joining Islamist State group is a ‘serious problem’.
The UK will vote tomorrow on joining the strikes.
US Secretary of State John Kerry said ancient treasures in Iraq and Syria have become the causalities of warfare.
The strike was conducted by the US, Bahrain, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates.
The US has long resisted taking action against IS inside Syria, but it’s believed the militants’ murder of journalist James Foley may have altered the President’s approach.
Eight children were killed earlier when a missile slammed into a public playground at a refugee camp.
Another 24 rockets from Gaza were intercepted, army figures show.
The death toll in Gaza after two days of Israeli air strikes has climbed to more than 40.
The men were killed in an early morning airstrike.
Palestinian militants have launched 92 rockets into Israel since yesterday alone.
Security officials say the four confirmed victims were suspected members of al-Qaeda.
Two men reported dead after Israeli aircraft struck the southern Gaza Strip targeting rocket-launching militants.
Gaddafi has threatened the Libyan forces will move to Europe ‘like locusts’ unless NATO halts its campaign of airstrikes against his regime in Libya.
Rebel council claims it is in contact with a 100-person-strong underground network in Tripoli to gauge morale in the capital.
“We will resist and the battle will continue to the beyond, until you’re wiped out,” said a defiant Gaddafi.
NATO has described Libyan government figures as “pure propaganda”, but admits to mistakenly striking rebels on Thursday.