Washington: The US President Barack Obama's plan to launch military strikes on Syria has cleared the first hurdle with a key Senate committee voting to authorise him to take action against the Assad

Washington/St Peters-burg/Damascus: US President Barack Obama on Wednesday defended his decision to go for a limited military strike against the Assad regime of Syria arguing that it is a question of

Syria’s deputy foreign minister said Wednesday that the regime would not give in to threats of a US-led military strike against the country, even if a third world war kicked off.

Washington: Senator John McCain, a longtime advocate for forceful military intervention in Syria, was caught playing poker on his smartphone on Tuesday as top administration officials testified at on

President Vladimir Putin warned the west against taking one-sided action in Syria but also said Russia “doesn’t exclude” supporting a United Nations resolution on punitive military strikes if it is proved that Damascus used poison gas on its own people.

US President Barack Obama received a big boost in his efforts to get Congressional authorisation for a military strike against Syria on Tuesday. A top Republican senator, John McCain, supported the move saying it would be “catastrophic” to reject such an action.

Moscow: Russian radar detected the launch of two ballistic 'objects' towards the eastern Mediterranean from the central part of the sea on Tuesday, Russian news agencies quoted the Defence Ministry a

Washington: US President Barack Obama on Saturday announced his decision to take military action against the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
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Damascus: The US and its allies built their case on Wednesday for likely military action against the regime in war-torn Syria over alleged chemical weapons attacks, despite stern warnings from Russia

San Francisco: Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post lost control of some of their websites on Tuesday after hackers supporting the Syrian government breached