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Safronkov said Russia's Foreign Minister asked U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during talks earlier Wednesday in Moscow to jointly request the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons "to immediately put together an independent global mission" to visit Khan Sheikhoun and the air base that the U.S.

The cost of a single MOAB is $16 million. The Ministry of Defense said in a statement that several IS caves and ammunition caches were destroyed. The Afghan leader tweeted his concern after the U.S. Professor Michael Clarke, a senior associate fellow at defence think tank the Royal United Services Institute, said the use of the weapon would have gone to the White House for approval but was likely to have been a decision made by the local commander.

Another consideration is the waning authority of presidential adviser Steve Bannon, even beyond his disagreements with Jared Kushner , President Trump's son-in-law who also is a key adviser. It was "certainly possible" Putin knew about the sarin attack, Trump said. He said one nice thing about me. "He said I'm a genius". When it comes to what that alliance is and how it was formed, at least you can say, now I get it.

Lee urged House Speaker Paul Ryan to call Congress back into session, to can immediately repeal the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force and "put real restraints on Trump's warmongering". The US has concentrated heavily on combatting them while also supporting Afghan forces battling the Taliban. It was first produced for use in the early days of the Iraq war.

Moscow's move to abandon the hotline could dramatically raise the risk to pilots and ground forces on all sides, with near misses and misunderstandings far more likely in Syria's crowded skies. The United States said the base was used in Tuesday's attack, which prompted Trump to reverse years of skepticism about deeper USA involvement in the war and greenlight an escalation.

Things just went from worse to a lot worse for United Airlines. "That's it. Not a big deal". This seems so simple. They have treated us as less than maybe we deserve. "I'm not looking for a telephone conversation with Mr. Munoz", he said. "It is especially troubling to city taxpayers that they will be saddled with lawsuits", Burke said.

Page has constantly denied the allegations during media interviews and said he did not work with the Russians to influence the presidential elections. By coincidence, a spokesman for Mr. Manafort on Wednesday revealed that he has chose to register with the Justice Department as a foreign agent for lobbying work he did on behalf of political interests in Ukraine, led at the time by a pro-Russian political party, The Associated Press reported .

The GBU-43B bomb, also known as "Massive Ordinance Air Blast bomb" is a 21,600 pound (9,797 kg) GPS-guided munition that was dropped from an MC-130 aircraft. and global forces in Afghanistan, said the bomb was used against caves and bunkers housing fighters of the Islamic State in Afghanistan, also known as ISIS-K.

It was stark evidence that the president is moving ever further from his campaign promises to establish better ties with Moscow . "I would like to think that [Russia] didn't know, but certainly they could have", President Donald Trump told reporters at The White House on Wednesday, adding that the Pentagon was still investigating whether Moscow was complicit in the attack.

Western military intervention was largely averted by the U.S. -Russia agreement aimed at completely removing the Syrian chemical stockpiles from the country. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Trump's administration has found itself under pressure from those who "want to prevent it from curing the wounds inflicted by Barack Obama's administration and are using the Russian card in internal political struggle".

He has been tasked by Trump with solving Middle East peace, reforming the federal government and is seen by foreign capitals as the quickest, most reliable, way to get a message to the new president. Substantively, Bannon received some blame for the controversial travel ban that sparked street protests and remains bogged down in the courts. And Bannon's creation of an in-house think tank known as the Strategic Initiatives group has been marginalized.