Al Jazeera America | Syria Meets Deadline for Submitting Destruction Plan for Chemical Weapons New York Times Published: October 27, 2013. GENEVA — Syria submitted a formal declaration of its chemical weapons program and its plans for destroying its arsenal three days ahead of the deadline, the international chemical weapons watchdog said Sunday. Syria files weapons destruction plan Syria has filed details of chemical weapons programme, watchdog says Syria's ability to launch chemical attack said to be limited after key ... |
RFI | Syria 'cooperative' on chemical weapons, OPCW chief says CNN A U.N. Security Council resolution gives Syria until mid-2014 to destroy that arsenal, which the United States estimated at about 1,000 tons of blister agents and nerve gas. The Syrians provided an initial declaration of its stockpile and must submit a ... Two more French journalists held in Syria |
Washington Post | Syria mounting anti-polio campaign in wake of suspected outbreak CNN (CNN) -- The Syrian government has been mounting a campaign to boost vaccination among children in Syria after at least 20 suspected cases of polio were reported -- from government and opposition sources -- near the eastern city of Deir Ezzor. Though ... UN Confirms an Outbreak of Polio in Syria UPDATE 4-Polio outbreak in Syria threatens whole region, WHO says World Health Organization confirms polio outbreak in Syria |
Hardships Mounting for Refugees Inside Syria New York Times The long civil war has forced two million Syrians outside the country's borders, but more than twice that number face mounting privations at home, and the toll keeps rising. The deepening humanitarian crisis threatens to set the country's development ... |
Syria meets deadline for chemical weapons destruction plan CNN (CNN) -- Syria has met its deadline for submitting a plan for getting rid of its chemical weapons, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Sunday. Damascus also sent a declaration covering activities not prohibited by the chemical ... |
Syria says terrorist attack causes country-wide blackout CNN International (CNN) -- Syria was plunged Wednesday into a nationwide blackout, the state-run Syrian Arab News Agency reported. A "terrorist attack on the gas feeder line for a power plant" in southern Damascus led to "power outages in all provinces" and efforts were ... |
New York Times | Syria Fires Official Who Tried to Broker Peace New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — The Syrian government on Tuesday fired a deputy prime minister who has lately been its most outspoken voice in favor of reform and who recently held meetings with American and Russian officials about peace talks that world leaders ... US peace talks on Syria over before start? Syria envoy in Damascus, but prospects for peace talks dim Syria dismisses deputy PM after US talks |
New York Times | Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons begins, UN says CNN (CNN) -- Syrians began destroying their country's chemical weapons program Sunday, according to an international team tasked with overseeing the effort. Syrian personnel are using "cutting torches and angle grinders to destroy or disable a range of ... 100 Specialists to Carry Out Tricky Syria Disarmament Destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins: mission Under UN eye, destruction of Syrian chemical weapons begins |
New York Times (blog) | Bomber Tied to Al Qaeda Kills Dozens in Syrian City New York Times (blog) BEIRUT, Lebanon — A suicide bomber detonated a truck filled with propane tanks at a crowded military checkpoint in central Syria on Sunday, killing more than 30 people, most of them civilians, in the second such attack by fighters linked to Al Qaeda ... |
Swap Frees Lebanese Held by Syrian Rebels in Exchange for Turks New York Times (blog) BEIRUT, Lebanon — A flurry of back-room Middle East diplomacy led to an ambitious international prisoner swap on Saturday that freed Lebanese citizens held by Syrian rebels and Turkish pilots kidnapped by Lebanese gunmen. |