The man on the street in Berlin attacking an Israeli who carried a yarmulke by way of experiment, reported to the police. According to German media, it is probably a 19-year-old refugee from Syria who reported to a police station in the German capital together with a lawyer.
Iraq has carried out air strikes on positions of Islamic State (IS) in Syria on Thursday. Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said that action was taken because IS gangs pose a threat to Iraq.
Three Flemish companies are being prosecuted for the export of chemical products to Syria, one of which may have been used to make the nerve gas sarin. They said they were not aware of the license obligation, reports the weekly Knack.
Inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are not yet going to Douma, a suburb of Damascus. They were going to investigate Wednesday there, but that was postponed because according to UN security officers, Tuesday was shot. It is not clear about what kind of shooting the security people spoke to.
Israel braces itself for an Iranian attack. It fears that the Revolutionary Guard will take revenge for an Israeli military action over a week ago against an Iranian base in Syria.
The Syrian armed forces have begun to shoot an encircled stronghold of Islamic State (IS) just south of the center of Damascus. It is assumed that this heralds the recapture of the enclave of fighters of IS and of the al-Nusra front linked to al-Qaeda.
Russian President Putin and German government leader Merkel have called each other on Tuesday and talked about Syria and the project Nord Stream 2, the natural gas pipelines from Russia. Putin has again complained, according to Russian media, that the Western attacks on Syria last weekend violate international law and damage the peace process there.
France says that evidence for last week's Syrian toxic attack is being obscured. According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is therefore important that international inspectors are allowed to enter Douma as soon as possible.
The Syrian anti-aircraft in the province of Homs came into action due to technical malfunctions on the night from Monday to Tuesday. Military sources contradicted earlier reports that at least three air bases, Shayrat, Dumayr and a base at Damascus, had been bombarded with missiles.
The American government wants Arab countries to provide military support in Syria. Qatar, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates and Egypt should send troops to northwestern Syria, writes The Wall Street Journal.
The Syrian Ministry of Defense said it intervened on Monday night after a rocket attack aimed at Shayrat Air Base near the city of Homs.
The EU countries give meager support to the American-British-French attack on Syria. The Ministers of Foreign Affairs showed 'understanding' for the 'specific measures', but the sights must now once again be focused on a political dialogue.
The dust clouds from the Western attack on Syria have barely descended or everything is already in the old: Russia and Bashar al-Assad dictate what happens on the ground. The Syrian Air Force will continue unperturbed with bombing and Moscow refuses to admit inspectors from the OPCW to the spot where more than a week ago a poison gas attack was carried out.
French President Emmanuel Macron pledged 50 million euros in humanitarian aid for Syria on Monday. The money goes to several NGOs that provide relief work in Syria and to the aid organization of the United Nations.
British Prime Minister Theresa May has stressed that the attack on targets in Syria was in the British national interest. She reminded parliamentarians that her government has not succumbed to pressure from Washington. 'We did not do this because President Trump asked us. We did it because we thought it was right, 'said May, who pointed to the' broad international support 'for the attack.
Greek demonstrators have tried in Athens to take down a statue of Harry Truman, the former president of the United States. They attacked the image of the American during a demonstration against the attack of Americans and allies on targets in Syria.
A Russian investigative journalist, Maxim Borodin, who wrote about the death of mercenaries in Syria, was killed by a fall from his apartment on the fifth floor.
The mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) does not yet have access to the area in the Syrian city of Douma where an attack with chemical weapons would have taken place. That is what the United Kingdom delegation says to the OPCW. 'Free access is essential. Russia and Syria must cooperate \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, twittered the British delegation.
The British Prime Minister, Theresa May, has to report to the House of Commons on Monday for the rocket attacks on targets in Syria, which Great Britain performed together with the United States and France on Saturday.
The United States wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to condemn in no uncertain terms the attacks with chemical weapons in Syria.
Russia has started a campaign of 'dirty tricks \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; against Great Britain and the United States after the attack on Syrian targets. The British government has seen the amount of disinformation that Russia is spreading through social media twenty-five years since the rocket attacks in the early hours of Saturday.
US President Donald Trump wants the US Army to withdraw from Syria as soon as possible. That is what the spokesperson for the White House Sarah Sanders said on Sunday evening.
Russian investigative journalist Maksim Borodin has died from his injuries after a fall from his apartment. The authorities treat his death as suspected suicide. His chief editor does not believe that.
French President Emmanuel Macron has defended the rocket attack on targets in Syria. The intervention was necessary to give the international community 'some credibility', the president said in an interview that was broadcast by several French media.
Only 28 percent of respondents in a British opinion poll support Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to attack Syria with missiles. Britain, the US and France fired more than a hundred missiles at targets in Syria during the night from Friday to Saturday. They state that there was an attack with poison gas a week earlier in Douma near Damascus and that the regime of President Assad should be punished with missiles there.
The leader of the largest opposition party in France, Laurent Wauquiez, has called the attacks on Syria useless. Wauquiez, of the center-right Republicans, finds it useless to attack just to get a feeling of doing something, but not to have any strategy behind the actions.
The Syrian army reports that all armed groups have left from East Ghouta, the former rebel enclave near Damascus. 'All terrorists have been removed from the city of Douma, their last stronghold in East Ghouta', reports the Syrian state press agency SANA on the authority of the army command.
All member states of NATO have expressed their full support for the American, French and British attacks on Syria. They did so after the NATO ambassadors of the three countries had given their 26 colleagues information, which they believed to be responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Douma, a week ago, by President Assad's government.
The United States is ready to take action again if the Syrian government uses chemical weapons again. That is what the American UN ambassador Nikki Haley suggested during a session of the UN Security Council.
The attack by the US, the United Kingdom and the French on targets in Syria was a huge logistical operation. The costs run into hundreds of millions, says defense specialist Peter Wijninga. There may even have been a bomber in America to fire rockets on Syria.
