Sentences with phrase «chemical attack by»

To explain denial of any chemical attack by Douma medical staff, Gabriel Tayara of UOSSM, an organization which, together with SAMS, did the most to disseminate jihadist allegations of a chemical incident, claimed that all the doctors and medical staff in Douma had been coerced and threatened by the Russians and that their evidence should not be believed.

The White House authorized the launch of 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles on Thursday evening in response to what President Donald Trump's administration and several U.S. allies claim was a chemical attack by the Assad regime.

The U.S., France and the U.K. launched military strikes Friday night on what the Pentagon said were three Syrian chlorine and sarin gas research facilities in response to a suspected chemical attack by Syrian leader Bashar al - Assad.

Congressman John Katko (R): «The horrific and barbaric chemical attacks by the Assad regime against innocent civilians, including children, warranted strong and measured action.

Not exact matches

In separate phone calls to British and Turkish leaders this week, Xi called for an investigation into the alleged chemical attack in the town of Douma by the Syrian government, days after the US and its allies struck three targets in Syria in retaliation.

Saturday's strikes by the U.S., Britain and France were in retaliation for a suspected chemical weapons attack by the Syrian military in eastern Ghouta.

Obama gave The Atlantic several reasons for not enforcing the red line — uneasiness about a strike against Syria not being sanctioned by Congress, a lack of support from the international community and the American people, the possibility that the intelligence on the chemical - weapons attack wasn't 100 % solid — but did not mention the Iran deal among them.

The U.S. - led airstrikes, which U.S. President Donald Trump described as «perfectly executed,» came after the likely use of chemical weapons in an attack by the Syrian regime on the town of Douma earlier this month.

WASHINGTON / BEIRUT, April 14 - U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people, aiming to degrade its chemical weapons capabilities in the biggest intervention yet in the conflict by Western powers.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon.

PARIS, April 14 - France has concluded after analysing «reliable intelligence» and open sources that a chemical attack on Douma on April 7 was carried out by Syrian government forces, a declassified intelligence report showed on Saturday.

Ryan's retirement announcement was preceded by a string of tweets from Trump, who touched on subjects including special counsel Robert Mueller's probe of Russian election meddling and the response to a suspected chemical attack in Syria on Wednesday.

The U.S. - led strike on Syria in response to a suspected chemical weapons attack by Bashar al - Assad's forces was specific and not part of a wider campaign, says Dakota Wood of the Heritage Foundation.

It came one week after an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad that killed at least 60 people.

Based on intelligence gathered by Syrian and Russian air defense crews from the U.S. strike exactly a year and a week ago on Shayrat Airbase in Syria, air defense crews were likely well - drilled and prepared to meet a U.S. - led attack on their claimed chemical weapons facilities.

Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.

The metal's price jumped markedly after Trump warned Russia to «get ready» for a missile strike in Syria following a recent chemical weapons attack allegedly carried out by the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad.

In a tweet, he hinted at retaliating against a deadly chemical weapons attack believed to be carried out by supporters of Syrian President Bashar Assad, warning of a «big price» to pay.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

Macron said in February that «France will strike» in the event of lethal chemical attack on civilians by government forces in Syria.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie said at the Pentagon.

«I think the perspective from the United States supported by the facts that we have are conclusive: that the recent chemical weapons attack carried out in Syria was planned and it was directed and executed by Syrian regime forces, and we're quite confident of that,» Tillerson said.

Tillerson responded by emphasizing the horror of the Assad regime's recent chemical weapons attack on civilians, which killed dozens last week.

The British government said in a statement the U.S. missile strikes were an appropriate response to the «barbaric chemical weapons attack» launched by the Syrian government.

(CNN) About 500 people may have been affected by a suspected chemical attack last week on Syria's rebel - held town of Douma, according to the World Health Organization.

Her ability to cut through was on display on Monday this week, when Haley spoke at an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council condemning the suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 40 people and is believed to have been carried out by the government under President Bashar al - Assad, although it denies the allegations.

Following last Friday night's coordinated missile attack by a coalition of U.S., U.K. and French forces against Syrian chemical weapons facilities, there was a high level of consternation about whether the barrage of targeted airstrikes would escalate into a dangerous and wide - ranging military engagement between the Assad - led Syrian government backers (Russia, Iran, Hezbollah) and NATO forces.

Also factor in the raid of President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen's office and hotel room by the FBI, as well as the missile attacks on Syrian chemicals weapons targets.

Pope Francis has closed his traditional Sunday blessing by saying «nothing can justify» the use of chemical weapons against defenceless people, and called for those responsible for a suspected attack in Syria to seek negotiations.

A disturbing new investigation from the United Nations (UN) and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), and first reported by Reuters, has determined that Syrian government forces used deadly chlorine gas during attacks on its civilians.

Plants also give off chemicals into the air to warn adjacent plants that they are being attacked by insects.

Kerry argued that one purpose of the proposed strike is to deter future chemical weapons attacks by Assad.

In the case of the attack on the ozone layer by chlorofluorocarbons, the impact could be made negligible by operating on the T factor alone, that is, ban the offending chemical.

It's all a vicious cycle: use chemicals, create resistant bacteria, get sick, take antibiotics, wipe out the good bacteria, get attacked again by even worse bacteria...

Trump in a statement said a suspected chemical attack that killed dozens in a rebel - held Syrian district «can not be ignored by the civilized world.»

If it would be proven that a chemical attack was indeed launched by the Syrian government, what could the United Nations do?

In 2014, the Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic, set up by the United Nations Human Rights Council, said that several other attacks likely involved access to Syrian army chemical stockpiles.

Russia has been accused by the UK to be responsible for the alleged chemical attack on Sergey Skripal, but has officially and vehemently denied any involvement.

Say (as seems likely) that recent chemical chemical attacks in Syria were undertaken by the government.

What intelligence / information has been released so far that support the hypothesis that the chemical attack was conducted by the Syrian government?

President Trump taunted Russia for backing a «Gas Killing Animal» and defied a warning from Moscow that it would knock down American missiles in Syria by declaring «they will be coming» in retaliation for a deadly chemical weapons attack.

With just a few hours to go before President - elect Donald Trump take office, New York's Working Families Party is using what it anticipates will be «wholesale attacks on working people» by the incoming administration and its allies to highlight the plight of several hundred striking workers at Momentive Performance Materials, a chemical plant in Waterford.

First it sets a very high bar on the evidential threshold for concluding that a chemical attack took place and that it was conducted by the Syrian regime.

WASHINGTON — U.S. Rep John Katko expressed his support for U.S. airstrikes against Syrian targets last night, calling the act a «proportional response» to the chemical attacks committed by Bashar al - Assad's regime.

After all Iran is the country that suffered the loss of over 200 men, women and children who were blown out of the sky in international airspace; it is also Iran whose citizens and soldiers were killed by chemical weapons attacks.

He called instead for an independent investigation by the United Nations into the chemical attack on the rebel - held town of Khan Sheikhoun.

By Frank V. Vernuccio [On Friday night, US and European allies launched airstrikes against Syrian research, storage and military targets as President Trump sought to punish President Bashar al - Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus last weekend that killed more than 40 people.

Neonics are not so prevalent by Cox's bee yards, but other chemicals are, including Lorsban, which attacks the nervous system.

When sagebrush plants are attacked by hungry insects, researchers have found, they emit chemical cues into the air to alert neighboring plants.

He already knew that plants can change their chemical structure to protect themselves once attacked, or just touched, by a hungry herbivore.