- 00:53 27/04/2013
US claims of evidence that Syrian forces used chemical weapons gives Washington a chance to break its diplomatic stalemate with Russia over the ongoing civil war, but securing Moscow’s endorsement of the claim will likely be a tall order, analysts said Friday.
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- 07:10 26/04/2013
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Thursday reiterated his call on Syrian authorities to allow an international technical expert team to conduct a fact-finding mission in the country over the possible use of chemical weapons.
- 01:38 26/04/2013
The United States said Thursday it has evidence that chemical weapons have been used by the Syrian government in the civil war there, blaming the increasingly “desperate” regime of President Bashar al-Assad for crossing a “red line” that US President Barack Obama has said could lead to US intervention in the conflict.2
- 20:25 25/04/2013
US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel said Thursday that the United States has determined that chemical weapons have been used in the civil war in Syria.2
- 19:46 25/04/2013
US Defense Sec. Chuck Hagel says there is evidence that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons.
- 02:46 25/04/2013
Providing assistance to Syria’s armed opposition that is seeking to change the regime is dangerous, Russia’s ambassador to the United Nations said in the UN Security Council on Wednesd1
- 23:19 24/04/2013
More than 100 people left Syria on Wednesday aboard an airplane provided by the Russian Emergencies Ministry, a ministry spokeswoman said.
- 18:05 24/04/2013
Continuous exchanges of gunfire between Sunni Muslims and Alawite Muslims in Lebanon’s second largest city, Tripoli, located in the north of this multi-faith country 50 kilometers away from the Syrian border have split residents into two hostile camps. Syrian refugees, whose numbers have been growing steadily in recent months, also figure in the conflict.
- 12:40 24/04/2013
The fate of two Syrian Orthodox bishops kidnapped in Syria earlier this week remained unclear on Wednesday, with conflicting reports about whether they had been released.
- 02:23 24/04/2013
Two Christian bishops, abducted in Syria earlier this week, were released on Tuesday evening, Al-Jazeera reported citing a church official.
- 22:22 23/04/2013
US Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday called on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria in the ongoing civil war there.4
- 21:32 23/04/2013
The Syrian authorities called the EU decision to allow the import of Syrian oil and its derivatives through exclusive transactions with the rebels an “illegal” move and “an act of aggression” on Tuesday.
- 21:14 23/04/2013
Any reports of the alleged use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict must be carefully investigated to avoid the repetition of the “Iraqi scenario,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Tuesday.
- 17:59 23/04/2013
Moscow strongly condemned on Tuesday the abduction of two Christian bishops by Syrian rebels and demanded their immediate release.
- 23:58 22/04/2013
A deputy Russian foreign minister on Monday criticized the European Union’s decision to ease its sanctions against Syria to support the country's opposition.
- 04:09 21/04/2013
Syria’s opposition has asked its foreign supporters to use unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for “surgical strikes” on missile positions of Syrian government forces.
- 21:57 19/04/2013
The UN and Arab League Special Envoy to Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Friday denied media reports that he was about to quit his job.
- 19:34 19/04/2013
The deployment of US troops to Jordan will only make the Syrian crisis worse, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesman Alexander Lukashevich said on Friday.7
- 20:54 18/04/2013
Russia has refused to join Western calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down because it fears not only losing its “last bastion” of influence in the Middle East but also what would follow Assad, US Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said Thursday.
