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Sectarian Killings Reported in Syrian Village
(BEIRUT) — The bodies of the Syrian boys and young men in jeans and casual shirts were strewn along a blood-stained pavement, dying apparently where they fell...
Strikes on Syria Signal an Emboldened Israel
After two air strikes inside Syria in the space of four days, Israel remains intent on targeting advanced weapons there before they can be transferred to...
Obama Questions Orgins of Chemical Weapons Used in Syria
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama strongly suggested Tuesday he'd consider military action against Syria if it can be confirmed that President Bashar Assad's...
Syrian Prime Minister Escapes Bombing in Damascus
(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Syria's prime minister narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in the heart of the heavily defended capital Monday, state media said,...
Pattern Seen in Alleged Chemical Arms Use in Syria
(BEIRUT) — The instances in which chemical weapons are alleged to have been used in Syria were purportedly small in scale: nothing along the lines of Saddam...
U.S. Options Limited on Syria Despite Weapons Report
(WASHINGTON) -- The White House disclosure that the Syrian government has twice used chemical weapons still leaves the Obama administration stuck with a limited...
U.S. Ponders Syria’s Possible Chemical Weapons
U.S. intelligence believes that chemical weapons have been used in Syria, opening debate against those who want to intervene and those who want more information...
Hagel Says Syria Has Used Chemical Weapons
(ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates) — U.S. intelligence has concluded "with some degree of varying confidence," that the Syrian government has used sarin gas as a...
Obama: Can’t Permit Syria Chemical Weapons Use
(WASHINGTON) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. will investigate Syria's potential chemical weapons use on its own and with the United Nations. He says the...
Syrian Officials Deny Use of Chemical Weapons
(DAMASCUS, Syria) — Two Syrian officials denied Friday that government forces had used chemical weapons against rebels, Damascus' first response to U.S...
The Thick Red Line: The White House Takes a Cautious Position on Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
Obama may be caught between his public words and his private concerns about getting more involved in Syria.
Six Times The White House Discussed The Syria Red Line
The White House confirmed "with varying degrees of confidence" that the Syrian regime has used the chemical weapon sarin, a possible sign that Syria has crossed...
Kerry: NATO Needs Plan for Syrian Chemical Weapons
(BRUSSELS) — U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry urged NATO on Tuesday to prepare for the possible use of chemical weapons by Syria on the same day that a senior...
Israeli Focus on Syria Gives Hagel Respite on Iran
(JERUSALEM) — On Chuck Hagel's inaugural visit to Israel as U.S. defense secretary, Syria surpassed Iran as the security threat of greatest urgency to the U.S.'...
Qatar Faces Backlash among Rebel Groups in Syria
(BEIRUT) -- In a war-battered suburb of Damascus, a commander for one of the smaller nationalist brigades fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad...
Assad Accuses West of Backing Al-Qaeda in Syria
(BEIRUT) — Syria's president accused the West on Wednesday of backing al-Qaeda in his country's civil war, warning it will pay a price "in the heart" of Europe...
No Exit: Syria’s War Through the Eyes of a Fighter on Both Sides
When Siraj heard the news earlier this month that al-Qaeda had embraced Jabhat al-Nusra, a jihadist group recognized in Syria for its discipline and fighting...
U.S. Set to Expand Nonlethal Aid to Syrian Rebels
(WASHINGTON ) — The United States is poised to significantly expand its non-lethal military aid to the Syrian opposition as European nations weigh easing an arms...
