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Britain, France claim Syria used chemical weapons - Washington Post Thu, 18 Apr 2013 19:56:44 GMT

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 useLos Angeles Times
Syria Faces New Claim on Chemical ArmsNew York Times
US Probes New Syria Weapons AllegationsWall Street Journal
Jerusalem Post -Reuters
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United Nations says Syria conflict a humanitarian catastrophe - Reuters Fri, 19 Apr 2013 01:03:57 GMT

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 OKABC News
It's Time to Act in Syria - by Dennis RossForeign Policy (blog)
Syria: with aid efforts dramatically hobbled, UN officials call on Council to actUN News Centre
UNHCR (press release) -Businessweek -The Australian
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UN condemns Syria violence as 'unacceptable' - Aljazeera.com Fri, 19 Apr 2013 02:01:11 GMT

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 ...Washington Post
UN Security Council in rare agreement on Syria condemnationYahoo! News
UN Security Council unites to condemn Syria violenceITV News

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Pentagon sends troops to Jordan to counter Syria chemical weapons threat - Christian Science Monitor Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:33:14 GMT

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 SyriaLos Angeles Times
Jordan 'Forced' Into Syria Intervention? Economic Conditions Pressure Abdullah ...Huffington Post
Hagel, Dempsey Warn of Involvement in SyriaABC News (blog)
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Top Obama Officials Differ on Syrian Rebels in Testimony to Congress - New York Times Thu, 18 Apr 2013 04:19:30 GMT

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 ...


Syria rebels 'capture' Homs army base - Aljazeera.com Thu, 18 Apr 2013 11:54:51 GMT

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 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:07:28 GMT

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 ...


Arming Syria militants complicated question for Israel: Netanyahu - Press TV Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:58:23 GMT

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 NetanyahuBBC News
Israeli threat to intervene in SyriaTelegraph.co.uk
PM Binyamin Netanyahu: Israel prepared militarily for Iran, SyriaUPI.com
Yahoo!7 News -Ynetnews
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Syria crisis: Assad accuses west of supporting al-Qaida - Thursday 18 April 2013 - The Guardian (blog) Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:15:58 GMT

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 ...


Syria's Christian Minority Lives in Fear of Kidnapping and Street Battles - The Atlantic Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:29:34 GMT

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 ...

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