All The World's News
Recent News Headlines : Khattab -
CHEMICAL EXPERTS FINALLY SEE SYRIA SITE
The Syrian government and Russia deny chemical weapons were used and say evidence was fabricated... READ MORE›
CHEMICAL WEAPONS INSPECTORS IN SYRIA REACH DOUMA, GET SAMPLES
A child cries as his or her face is wiped following alleged chemical weapons attack in Douma, Syria, on April 8... READ MORE›
RUSSIA CLAIMS SKRIPALS WERE INJECTED WITH TOXIN TO FOOL EXPERTS
Yakovenko said the poisoning of the Skripals was a huge provocation against Russia ... READ MORE›
UN SECURITY TEAM SHOT AT IN DOUMA
Syria strikes - as it happened UN security team shot at in Douma, says chemical weapons watchdog... READ MORE›
RUSSIA AND SYRIA MUST LET INSPECTORS VISIT DOUMA
UK envoy Russia and Syria must let inspectors visit Douma... READ MORE›
WHY INSPECTORS WON'T BLAME SYRIA EVEN IF THEY FIND TRACES OF CHEMICAL WEAPONS IN DOUMA
As with that investigation, the chemical weapons inspectors at Douma will carry out forensic work to find out what happened during the attack... READ MORE›
OPCW PROBE ON HOLD AS U.N. RECON TEAM TAKES FIRE AMID ALLEGED SYRIA COVERUP EFFORT
Several experts have said it was likely Russian and Syrian forces that now control Douma have tried to remove or tampered with incriminating evidence... READ MORE›
HOW DO YOU TEST FOR CHEMICAL WEAPONS?
Under the Chemical Weapons Convention, OPCW inspectors should have access to any piece of evidence they want, including corpses... READ MORE›
FACT-FINDING TEAM STILL OUTSIDE SYRIA'S DOUMA
Syrian and Russian forces gained control over Douma on Saturday when rebels withdrew from the town, hours after the end of the Western countries' attacks... READ MORE›
SYRIAN MEDICS 'SUBJECTED TO EXTREME INTIMIDATION' AFTER DOUMA ATTACK
Some doctors have appeared on Syrian television to deny that anything took place in Douma... READ MORE›
CHEMICAL WEAPONS INSPECTORS REACH SYRIAN TOWN
Syria and its ally Russia deny any chemical attack took place, and Russian officials accused Britain of staging a fake gas attack in the town... READ MORE›
OPCW 'ENTERS SYRIA'S DOUMA' TO PROBE GAS ATTACK ALLEGATION
Chemical weapons inspectors have entered the Syrian town of Douma to probe an alleged poison gas attack, according to the state-run SANA news agency... READ MORE›
ANALYSIS | INVESTIGATORS MAY FINALLY BE ALLOWED ACCESS TO THE SYRIA CHEMICAL ATTACK SITE. HERE'S WHAT THEY'LL TRY TO DO.
11 days after the attack, the OPCW will finally be allowed access to the suspected chemical weapons attack site near Damascus... READ MORE›
RUSSIA ACCUSED OF TAMPERING WITH THE SITE OF ALLEGED SYRIAN CHEMICAL ATTACK
Russia, a longtime ally of the Syrian government, intervened militarily in 2015 to help turn the tide of the civil war... READ MORE›
SYRIA ATTACK TRIGGERED WESTERN ACTION, BUT ON THE GROUND ASSAD GAINED
These included its legalization as a political party, and a requirement that the Syrian army stay out of Douma... READ MORE›
LITTLE-KNOWN EASTERN GHOUTA HAS BECOME THE FOCAL POINT OF ONGOING CONFLICT
Syrian gas attack Little-known Eastern Ghouta has become the focal point of ongoing conflict... READ MORE›
RUSSIA MAY HAVE TAMPERED WITH CHEMICAL ATTACK SITE, U.S. ENVOY SAYS
A diplomatic source said evidence may have been removed while inspectors negotiated access with Syrian authorities to the site of the chemical attack in Syria's Douma... READ MORE›
US SAYS AIR STRIKES CRIPPLE SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM
The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria... READ MORE›
US SAYS SYRIA USED BOTH CHLORINE AND SARIN IN DOUMA CHEMICAL ATTACK
Vice President Mike Pence said the strikes, degraded and crippled chemical weapons capabilities of Syria ... READ MORE›
'MISSION ACCOMPLISHED' IN SYRIA, TRUMP DECLARES ON TWITTER
He authorized a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles to hit a single Syrian airfield in April 2017 in retaliation for Assad's use of sarin gas against civilians... READ MORE›
CERTAIN OF GAS ATTACK, ALLIES STRUCK SYRIA BEFORE U.N. REPORT
Chlorine has legitimate industrial and other civilian uses, so it is not banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention... READ MORE›
IN SYRIA STRIKES, U.S. BLURS RED LINE FOR INTERVENTION
A sarin attack triggered Trump's decision last year to strike a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
A HISTORY OF THE SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS 'RED LINE'
Meanwhile Assad's Russian ally has continued to deny that the Syrian government still has an arsenal of chemical weapons... READ MORE›
US-LED STRIKES ON SYRIA: WHAT WAS HIT?
The US says missiles hit targets associated with the Syrian regime's chemical weapons programme ... READ MORE›
U.S. SAYS AIR STRIKES CRIPPLE SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS PROGRAM
Syria agreed in 2013 to give up its chemical weapons after a nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in Douma... READ MORE›
UK ACCUSES RUSSIA OF SPYING ON SERGEI SKRIPAL FOR FIVE YEARS
The OPCW confirmed on Thursday that the lethal poison used in the attack on the Skripals was a military-grade nerve agent of high purity ... READ MORE›
UK SAYS RUSSIA SPIED ON SKRIPALS FOR 'AT LEAST 5 YEARS'
Sedwill also alleges that in the 2000s, Russia developed a chemical warfare programme designed to deliver nerve agents, including by application to door handles ... READ MORE›
TRUMP NOW SAYS SYRIA ATTACK COULD BE 'VERY SOON OR NOT SO SOON AT ALL'
Trump's initial tweet Thursday about timing included a complaint about the military burden shouldered by the United States... READ MORE›
500 SYRIA PATIENTS HAD CHEMICAL ATTACK SYMPTOMS
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles will be coming in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, defying Russian warnings against a strike... READ MORE›
MISSILES 'WILL BE COMING' TO SYRIA, TRUMP SAYS AFTER RUSSIA WARNS AGAINST U.S. STRIKE
The tweet came as Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack... READ MORE›
Trending News Headlines : Khattab
ASSAD INVITES CHEMICAL WEAPONS INSPECTORS TO INVESTIGATE SUSPECTED ATTACK IN SYRIA
Dozens of buses arrived in rebel-held Douma on Tuesday, carrying Syrian insurgents who agreed to surrender following the suspected chemical attack, a monitoring group said... READ MORE›
BRENDAN ONEILL THE WEST IS BETRAYING THE KURDS AND ALLOWING THEM TO BE MASSACRED
The PKK has close links with the YPG, the Kurdish People's Protection Units in Syria, who have been among the bravest battlers against Isil... READ MORE›
RUSSIA 'IS BUILDING MILITARY BASE IN SYRIA'
Syria is already home to Russia's only base outside the former Soviet Union a naval station in Tartus... READ MORE›
FRIEDMAN THE WORLDS HOT SPOT
Let me point out a few news items you may have missed while debating the Iran nuclear deal... READ MORE›
A QUARTER OF A MILLION PEOPLE HAVE DIED IN THE SYRIAN CONFLICT
Syrian conflict has killed quarter of a million people... READ MORE›
AYLAN KURDI'S FATHER IS A PEOPLE SMUGGLER, WOMAN CLAIMS
Mr Kurdi has now returned to Syria and the ruins of the city of Kobani the home he and his family had fled... READ MORE›
SYRIAN TODDLER AYLAN'S FATHER DROVE CAPSIZED BOAT, OTHER PASSENGERS SAY
Abu Hussein told me that he Kurdi was the one who organized this trip, he said... READ MORE›
ISIS DESTROYS MORE ARTIFACTS IN SYRIA AND IRAQ
But Thursday was the first time that the Islamic State said it had destroyed Palmyra statues... READ MORE›
AYLAN KURDI, DROWNED SYRIAN 3-YEAR-OLD, MOURNED WITH POIGNANT CARTOONS USING 'HUMANITY WASHED ASHORE' HASHTAG
Aylan kurdi drowned syrian 3-year-old mourned with poignant cartoons using humanity washed ashore hashtag... READ MORE›
TURKEY ATTACKS KURDISH MILITANT CAMPS IN IRAQ
Fighter jets also struck Islamic State targets in Syria for a second night Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu's office said in the statement Saturday... READ MORE›
AUSTRALIA LOOKS SET TO START BOMBING SYRIA AS LIBERALS WARN AGAINST TOO MUCH COMPASSION FOR REFUGEES
Australia looks set to start bombing Syria as Libs warn against too much refugee compassion... READ MORE›
IS THIS AMERICA'S WORST ERROR IN THE MIDDLE EAST SINCE THE IRAQ WAR?
Turkey conflict with Kurds Was approving air strikes against the PKK America's worst error in the Middle East since the Iraq War?... READ MORE›
ISIS HELD US AID WORKER AS SEX SLAVE BEFORE DEATH
DOHUK Iraq Somewhere in territory controlled by the Islamic State Kayla Mueller an American aid worker was chained in a room with other female captives... READ MORE›
BRADFORD DAWOOD FAMILY 'SPLIT TO CROSS SYRIA BORDER'
Sisters Khadija Sugra and Zohra Dawood and their children went missing after travelling to Saudi Arabia... READ MORE›
OFFERING SERVICES ISIS DIGS IN DEEPER IN SEIZED TERRITORIES
ERBIL Iraq In northern Syria the jihadists of the Islamic State have fixed power lines dug sewage systems and painted sidewalks... READ MORE›
MISSING BRADFORD SISTER 'MAY ALREADY BE IN SYRIA'
One of three Bradford sisters missing with their nine children may already be in Syria police believe... READ MORE›
UK IS DENYING REFUGE TO CHRISTIANS FLEEING ISIL, SAY CHURCH LEADERS
Europe must awake and the Conservative British Government should be leading from the front... READ MORE›
MAP: THERE ARE 10 WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN IRAQ AND SYRIA. NINE ARE IN DANGER.
Islamic State group jihadists seized Syria's Palmyra on Thursday, as UNESCO warned that the destruction of the ancient city would be an enormous loss to humanity... READ MORE›
IS SUSPECTS HELD OVER 'PLOT' TO ATTACK SAUDI MOSQUES
Most of the suspects are Saudi citizens but they also include people from six nationalities including Yemen and Syria the interior ministry said... READ MORE›
TURKEY 'LET ISIL CROSS BORDER TO ATTACK KOBANE'
Turkey 'let Isil cross border to attack Kobane' as it happened... READ MORE›
ISIL JIHADISTS 'OFFERED TEENAGER $25,000 TO CARRY OUT BOMBINGS IN VIENNA'
A 14-year-old boy suspected of planning a series of bombings in vienna reportedly offered 25 000 16 000 by islamic state of iraq and the levant to carry out attacks... READ MORE›
ISLAMIC STATE SHOWS IMAGES OF ANCIENT SYRIAN TEMPLE DESTRUCTION
Islamic State has proclaimed a caliphate to rule over all Muslims from territory it holds in both Syria and Iraq... READ MORE›
UN TO EXAMINE SYRIA CHEMICAL WEAPONS ATTACKS
The UN has adopted a resolution aimed at identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria... READ MORE›
CANADIAN/ISRAELI BECOMES FIRST FEMALE FOREIGN FIGHTER TO JOIN KURDS
A Facebook page registered to Rosenberg showed photographs of her in settings marked as Kurdish areas of Iraq and Syria... READ MORE›
AYLAN AND GALIP KURDI: EVERYTHING WE KNOW ABOUT DROWNED SYRIAN REFUGEE BOYS
Abdullah Kurdi has a sister called Teema in Vancouver, Canada, and it was there that the family hoped to settle... READ MORE›
LACK OF FUNDS: WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME DROPS AID TO ONE-THIRD OF SYRIAN REFUGEES
Jordan hosts about 630,000 Syrian refugees, including more than half a million in communities and the rest in camps... READ MORE›
HAVE US TACTICS ONLY HELPED TO MAKE ISLAMISTS MORE POWERFUL?
Isis, a year of the caliphate Have US tactics only helped to make Islamists more powerful?... READ MORE›
SYRIAN GIRLS 'SOLD' INTO FORCED MARRIAGES
Many of the young girls are sourced from refugee camps in Jordan that house more than 120 000 Syrian refugees... READ MORE›
IRAQI KURDISH PESHMERGA FORCES 'CROSS INTO KOBANE'
Syria is iraqi kurdish peshmerga forces cross into kobane... READ MORE›
THOUSANDS FLEE SYRIA AS KURDS GAIN ON ISIS
But Rami Abdurrahman, who heads the observatory, said Islamic State fighters still controlled the road from the Turkish border to Raqqa... READ MORE›