Following yesterday’s announcement by South Korea that they suspected that North Korea had detonated a nuclear device, North Korea told the world today that they had, in fact, detonated their largest nuclear device to date. North Korea did not notify the international community in advance of yesterday’s test which marked North Korea’s 68th anniversary of […]
At least 70 people were treated for breathing problems Tuesday in the Syrian city of Aleppo after what rescue workers say was a chlorine gas attack by government forces. The Syria Civil Defense group said helicopters dropped several barrels containing chlorine on the opposition-held al-Sukkari neighborhood. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights also reported […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin maintained in an interview with media outlet Bloomberg that Russia had nothing to doing with the hacking of the U.S. Democratic National Committee. Thousands of the DNC’s emails and documents were hacked earlier this year, revealing that the DNC gave preferential treatment to Hillary Clinton over her Democratic rival Bernie Sanders. […]
The United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a global chemical weapons watchdog group, have finished up their confidential report on the use of chemical weapons by the government of Syria as well as the Islamic State in 2014-2015. The UN and OPCW have concluded in their year-long investigation, that both […]