The Associated Press | Britain, France claim Syria used chemical weapons Washington Post UNITED NATIONS — Britain and France have informed the United Nations that there is credible evidence that Syria has used chemical weapons on more than one occasion since December, according to senior diplomats and officials briefed on the accounts. Britain, France press for UN inquiry on Syria chemical arms use Syria Faces New Claim on Chemical Arms US Probes New Syria Weapons Allegations |
UN News Centre | United Nations says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe Reuters UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syrian families have been burned in their homes, people bombed waiting for bread, children tortured, raped and murdered and cities reduced to rubble in Syria's two-year-old war that has sparked a humanitarian catastrophe, the ... UN Asks Sec. Council for Cross-Border Syria Aid OK It's Time to Act in Syria - by Dennis Ross Syria: with aid efforts dramatically hobbled, UN officials call on Council to act |
Aljazeera.com | UN condemns Syria violence as 'unacceptable' Aljazeera.com The UN Security Council has reached a rare agreement on Syria, an issue that has divided it for two years, calling for an end to the escalating violence and condemning human rights violations by Syrian government forces and rebels. "The escalating ... UN agencies ask deadlocked Security Council to OK cross-border Syria relief ... UN Security Council in rare agreement on Syria condemnation UN Security Council unites to condemn Syria violence |
Christian Science Monitor | Pentagon sends troops to Jordan to counter Syria chemical weapons threat Christian Science Monitor The Pentagon's decision to send a contingent of US troops to Jordan, announced by Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel during a congressional hearing this week, raises the question of whether the Obama administration has now moved one step closer to a ... Step toward possible military intervention in Syria Jordan 'Forced' Into Syria Intervention? Economic Conditions Pressure Abdullah ... Hagel, Dempsey Warn of Involvement in Syria |
New York Times | Top Obama Officials Differ on Syrian Rebels in Testimony to Congress New York Times WASHINGTON — Sharply different perspectives within the Obama administration concerning the Syrian opposition emerged publicly on Wednesday when Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel made separate appearances ... |
Aljazeera.com | Syria rebels 'capture' Homs army base Aljazeera.com Syrian rebels have captured a military base in the strategic central Homs province as part of a drive to try to expand territory under their control near the Lebanese border, activists said. The Britain-based Observatory for Human Rights said the ... |
Assad Frames Syrian Struggle as Him Against Western Colonizers New York Times BEIRUT, Lebanon — President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on Wednesday night described what he said was an insidious Western attempt to recolonize his country, and he appeared to reject any thought of compromise or negotiation with the insurgency ... |
Press TV | Arming Syria militants complicated question for Israel: Netanyahu Press TV “Israel [has a] partnership with… terrorist groups, allowing those armed groups to cross the separation line in the occupied Syrian Golan [Heights], treating their wounded in Israeli hospitals and returning them to the Syrian territory through the ... Israel ready to act on Syria weapons, warns Netanyahu Israeli threat to intervene in Syria PM Binyamin Netanyahu: Israel prepared militarily for Iran, Syria |
Syria crisis: Assad accuses west of supporting al-Qaida - Thursday 18 April 2013 The Guardian (blog) Today it is supporting it in Syria, Libya and other places, and will pay a heavy price later in the heart of Europe and the United States ... We have no choice but victory. If we don't win, Syria will be finished and I don't think this is a choice for ... |
The Atlantic | Syria's Christian Minority Lives in Fear of Kidnapping and Street Battles The Atlantic George Abdulahad stood on his balcony in the Syrian city of Ras al-Ayn filling in bullet holes with plaster. His apartment, like many in the Christian neighborhood, lay gutted, the walls destroyed by an RPG or some sort of incendiary device. The ... |