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Senate to Vote This Week on $1.15 Billion Arms Deal With Saudi Arabia

21 September 2016

The U.S. Senate is expected to vote this week on a resolution to reject a pending arms sale from the U.S. to Saudi Arabia following reports of civilian casualties in Yemen at the hands of the Saudi-led coalition. Senator Chris Murphy (D-Connecticut) said in a […]

In parting words to UN, Obama calls for ‘course correction’

21 September 2016

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — In a closing dispatch to the world he’s tried to shape, President Barack Obama conceded Tuesday that the United States and other major powers have only limited ability to solve the world’s most profound problems, including Syria’s civil war. He lamented […]

As Trump rises, Clinton struggles with traditional playbook

21 September 2016

WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — For months, Democrats argued that voters would get “serious” about the campaign once it reached the fall and would reject Donald Trump’s no-holds-barred approach. They’re still waiting. With fewer than 50 days left, polling shows a tightening national race and […]

Blair sees ‘chaos’ if U.S. elects an isolationist president

21 September 2016

Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday predicted chaos if the United States elected an isolationist president, likening the withdrawal of America from world affairs to a soccer match without a referee. Asked how he would advise Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, should he […]

US election 2016: George HW Bush ‘to vote for Clinton’

21 September 2016

US Republican ex-President George HW Bush will vote for Democrat Hillary Clinton in November, US news website Politico reports. Mr Bush allegedly made the pledge to Kathleen Kennedy Townsend, niece to US ex-President John F Kennedy. The former president’s office has not confirmed the report, […]

Raad: National partnership incarnated by electoral law

20 September 2016

NNA – MP Mohammad Raad saw that electing a president “is a cornerstone, yet national partnership incarnated by another cornerstone which is the electoral law, can alone stabilize political life.” MP Raad’s words came Monday in the context of launching a book about interpreting dreams […]

US-backed Allies Set to Clash in Syria, Shaking Already Unstable Alliance

20 September 2016

GAZIANTEP, TURKEY — U.S.-backed allies in northern Syria appear set for a major clash even as they both race to liberate a strategic town from Islamic State (IS) terror group. Both Kurdish-dominated militias and Free Syrian Army (FSA) rebels, who are backed by Turkey, are […]

US Officials: Controversial Strike Hit Battalion of Syrian Prisoners

20 September 2016

PENTAGON — The coalition strike that Syria and Russia claim hit Syrian government troops may have struck a battalion of Syrian prisoners who were aligned with Syrian government forces but were in a separate location from the Syrian army, U.S. officials tell VOA. The investigation […]

Salam chairs Lebanon delegation at UN refugee conference in New York

20 September 2016

NNA – Prime Minister, Tammam Salam, chaired Lebanon’s delegation at the inaugural session of the United Nations Refugee Conference, at the invitation of UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, at the UN headquarters in New York. The Lebanese delegation includes Foreign and Expatriates Minister, Jibran Bassil, and […]

Assad calls raid that hit Syria army ‘flagrant American aggression’

20 September 2016

Damascus (AFP) – President Bashar al-Assad on Monday described the deadly US-led coalition raid on his forces in eastern Syria at the weekend as “flagrant American aggression”. Speaking to Iran’s deputy foreign minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari, Assad accused world powers of supporting “terrorist organisations” in […]

The Latest: Monitoring group: 12 dead in airstrike on convoy

20 September 2016

BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the developments in Syria, where a Russia-U.S.-brokered cease-fire, now in its seventh day, is hanging in the balance after numerous violations (all times local): 12:15 a.m. A Syrian activist monitoring group says that 12 aid workers and truck drivers […]

Clinton says Trump gives ‘aid, comfort’ to ISIS recruiters

20 September 2016

ESTERO, Fla. (AP) — Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of giving “aid and comfort” to Islamic terrorists Monday, declaring his anti-Muslim rhetoric helps groups like ISIS recruit new fighters. Trump showed no sign of changing and insisted the U.S. should “use whatever lawful methods are […]