French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault has officially come out accusing Syria for the Sarin attack. Environmental and blood samples are showing that the attack was perpetrated by the Syrian regime. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, however, Has stated that the only way to establish the truth is to conduct an impartial international investigation.
liberianobserver.com Cewhy Kwanue Shelling and rocket fire on a United Nations camp in Mali’s troubled town of Timbuktu killed a member of the Armed Forces of Liberia (AFL), Corporal Sheriff Ousma, and also wounded nine others, the United Nations Mission said last evening. Ousma was a signal soldier assigned with the 23rd Infantry Brigade.
the star.com KUALA LUMPUR Bahrain will set up an embassy in Malaysia to strengthen ties between the two countries. A Malaysia-Bahrain High Joint Commission co-chaired by the two nations’ foreign ministers will also be set up to serve as an umbrella framework for this bilateral cooperation. Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein said the historic state visit to Malaysia by the King… Read more »
France 24 New Wires Hundreds of frightened Syrian evacuees were on the move again Friday after being blocked for 48 hours at a transit point where a bomber killed dozens of their fellow townspeople, a monitor said.
France 24 New Wires 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.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault was outraged when the Syrian deputy foreign minister was invited to a meeting, regarding the Russian cultural center in Paris. After the chemical attack on a Syrian rebel held town that killed at least 87 people, the French Foreign Minister had the right to be angry that such a government would be invited to discuss… Read more »
usnews.com Noah Browning and Bozorgmehr Sharafedin MANAMA/DUBAI (Reuters) – At a wake in Iran’s holy city of Qom in February, a small group of Bahraini emigres and clerics mourned a young militant killed in a gun battle with Bahrain’s security forces. The eulogy was delivered by an exiled Bahraini cleric who has called for the island’s Shi’ite Muslim majority to… Read more »
reliefweb.com UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs HIGHLIGHTS One in five Malians will be food insecure during the lean season Central Mali : more schools are closing due to security threats Motorcycle bans affect people’s access to basic social services ‘Alarming’ lack of access to water in Menaka rural areas
France 24 New wires The US strike on a Syrian air base destroyed a fifth of the Damascus regime’s remaining warplanes, Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said Monday as Washington fired a fresh salvo of warnings at President Bashar al-Assad.
France 24 New wires A top Syrian official attended a conference in Paris Tuesday on the invitation of French lawmakers, angering the government days after he was banned from a similar meeting in Brussels.