Breaking news and analysis from the Middle East
The annual G7 talks in Italy this week will be dominated by discussions on how to persuade Russia to distance itself from the Assad regime in Syria in the wake of last week’s chemical attack.
US President Donald Trump has ordered dozens of air strikes on the Syrian military air base in response to the recent chemical attack in Idlib province.
Hospitals are struggling to cope with treating victims of the recent chemical weapons attack on a rebel-held town in the north-western Syrian province of Idlib.
At least 42 people have died after an air strike hit a mosque in a rebel-held village of al-Jineh in the northern Aleppo Governorate of Syria.
At least 39 people have been killed and many more injured, after a car bomb exploded in southern Baghdad.
