Bloomberg The Pentagon reiterated promises to respond to any use of chemical weapons by Syrian forces as the Assad regime’s offensive against militants in a key northwestern province threatens to cause another humanitarian crisis in the country’s eight-year civil war. The US and its allies “will respond quickly and appropriately,” Michael Mulroy, deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle ...

Bloomberg President Donald Trump said he would drop plans for tariffs on Mexico that he’d been threatening to impose for the past week after the country promised new steps to stem an influx of illegal migration into the US. “I am pleased to inform you that The United States of America has reached a signed agreement with Mexico,” Trump said ...

Bloomberg Iran’s foreign ministry said new sanctions on Iran, announced by the US government, show President Donald Trump’s calls for negotiations with the Islamic Republic are empty, the semi-official Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) reported. “It only took one week for the emptiness of the US president’s claim of wanting negotiations with Iran to be shown. The American policy of ...