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Joe Biden claimed Wednesday night during the fourth Democrat debate that U.S. troops in “Iraq” are “being fired on” by Syrian regime forces.

The Trump administration is implementing an across-the-board strategy to isolate Iran from its economic and strategic partners.

Rep. Mike Conaway (R-TX) joined SiriusXM hosts Matt Boyle and Amanda House on Breitbart News Sunday and defended the president on his decision to strike Syria.

A Labour peer and former chief of Britain’s Royal Navy questioned government claims that the Assad regime was behind chemical attacks in Syria live on the BBC Monday, as calls for evidence supporting the attack to be made public grows. 

BERLIN (AP) — Germany won’t participate in possible military action in Syria, but supports sending a message that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable, Chancellor Angela Merkel said Thursday. Merkel stressed the importance of a united position in response

Theresa May is clearing the way to launch attacks on the Syrian regime, despite multiple polls showing only one in five Brits support missile attacks.

Former UKIP leader Nigel Farage has urged the UK to not intervene in the Syrian conflict, claiming it will only spread “chaos” in the region and benefit Islamic State terrorists.

TEL AVIV – The threats posed by Iranian proxy terror group, Hezbollah, on Israel’s northern border are “extremely significant,” according to an Israeli news report aired Sunday.

Russia has deemed the Iranian military presence in Syria “legitimate” and the U.S.-backed forces as the top threat facing the region, refuting claims that the Kremlin had agreed to ensure the withdrawal of Islamic Republic-allied troops from Syria, revealed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov.

The State Department refused Thursday to categorical say that it will oppose associates of President Bashir Assad’s government serving in the new administration of the recently liberated ISIS “capital” of Raqqa, Syria.

U.S. special envoy for the coalition against the Islamic State Brett McGurk arrived in Ankara, Turkey, Friday to discuss the ongoing battle for Raqqa. Turkey, which recently called for McGurk’s firing, has increasingly engaged in attacks against the U.S.-allied Syrian Kurdish People’s Protection Units (YPG/YPJ).

The Syrian Defense Forces (SDF), a coalition of anti-Islamic State militias largely comprised of Kurdish fighters, has confirmed that the battle to liberate Raqqa, the capital of the ISIS “caliphate,” has begun.

On Thursday, the House Foreign Affairs Committee held a hearing on Syria, considering options for the war-torn country and the potential of a “post-Assad Syria” and its survivability as a state.

(AP) — France’s foreign minister said Wednesday that chemical analysis of samples taken from a deadly sarin gas attack in Syria early April “bears the signature” of President Bashar Assad’s government and shows it was responsible for the deadly assault.

Donald Trump is turning into David Cameron – and I don’t mean this as a compliment. David Cameron had some pretty stiff competition in the field of Most Awful British Prime Minister of the Last Twenty Years.

(AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s comments that last week’s chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US military strike are “100 percent lies”, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday.

When it comes to combatting genocide, words are trivial and action is everything. I am grateful to Sean Spicer and the members of the Trump team for taking action to give value to innocent Arab life.

TEL AVIV – The New York Times on Wednesday published a column by Thomas Friedman arguing that President Donald Trump should let the Islamic State in Syria “be Assad’s, Iran’s, Hezbollah’s and Russia’s headache,” prompting accusations that the newspaper is “outrageous and unconscionable.”

Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary Boris Johnson’s credibility suffered a blow in the G7 after proposals to levy targeted sanctions on senior Russian and Syrian figures were rejected.

The U.S. and Russia have been trading barbs since President Donald Trump ordered airstrikes on the Assad regime’s military assets in Syria last week, but now Russian President Vladimir Putin has closed the door on a face-to-face meeting with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when the U.S. top diplomat visits the country later this week.

LUCCA, Italy (AP) — The Latest on Group of Seven meeting of foreign ministers from industrialized nations (all times local):

Former UN Ambassador and National Security Council member Samantha Power has been silent on Twitter since President Donald Trump’s decision to attack a Syrian air base Thursday in response to Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons attack against civilians last Tuesday.

Democratic lawmakers have responded with mixed reactions to President Donald Trump’s decision to carry out military strikes on a Syrian air base that was the site of a chemical attack on Syrian civilians this week.

Catholic News Service reported on Friday that two Catholic leaders in Syria are criticizing the U.S. attack on the Bashar al-Assad regime that took place on Thursday, claiming it will only assure the continuation of the bloody civil war in the country, with Christians perhaps suffering the most.

While the next steps in Syria remain unclear, several strategic and political consequences have already become apparent.

President Donald Trump ordered Tomahawk missile strikes against a Syrian airfield on Thursday evening — then sat down to dinner with visiting Chinese President Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago.

By punishing Syria for gassing children, President Trump has helped restore America to its human-rights luster, and Arab life to the claim of infinite value that is the birthright of every child of God.

President Trump on Wednesday called a chemical weapons attack in Syria “horrible” and raised the possibility of a U.S. response.

In a stark contrast to statements from the Barack Obama administration, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said on Thursday that the future of the Bashar al-Assad regime “will be decided by the Syrian people.”

America’s United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley told reporters Wednesday that, while she supported peace talks for all sides of the Syrian civil war, the United States believed it imperative to “get Iran and their proxies” out of the country to maintain longstanding peace.

Some migrants coming into Western states as Syrian asylum seekers are “definitely” terrorists, the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has said.

On Wednesday’s episode of Whatever It Takes on the Breitbart News Network, Breitbart’s lead investigative reporter Lee Stranahan and host Curt Schilling attacked the establishment media’s coverage of the Syrian Civil War, saying the press was covering up the facts

Hundreds of protesters have marched through central London today to demand the British government help civilians caught up in the Syrian civil war in Aleppo. Waving Syrian flags, and banners reading: “save Aleppo”, “hand in hand with Aleppo” and “enough with

Celebrities rushed to social media this week to condemn the carnage Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has inflicted on his own people in Aleppo — and some in Hollywood also attacked President-elect Donald Trump over the tragedy.

TEL AVIV – Israel will respond with “full force” to any attacks from the Islamic State, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman said following Sunday’s clash between IDF troops and members of the terror group along the border with Syria.

TEL AVIV – The Israeli Air Force killed the members of a terrorist cell affiliated with the Islamic State in southern Syria in the first direct clash between Israel and the radical group Sunday morning. Shots and a mortar shell