Sep 17 VIDEO: Artillery shells fall close to Damascus AP VIDEO: Shelling close to Syria's capital: http://t.co/Qq3hDzBbcR -AB— The Associated Press (@AP) September 17, 2013… Continue reading
Sep 17 Israel wants Syria's Assad "gone" Getty Images Israel's Ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren said in an exit interview with the Jerusalem Post that Israel has wanted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to leave office since the start of the country's civil war. "The… Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch Free Syrian Army Chief: Foreign Weapon Donations Will Go Into the 'Right Hands' Free Syrian Army Chief: Foreign Weapon Donations Will Go Into the 'Right Hands'… Continue watching
Sep 16 Watch Chemical Weapons Declaration May Offer 'First, Key Tipoff' of Assad's Intentions Chemical Weapons Declaration May Offer 'First, Key Tipoff' of Assad's Intentions… Continue watching
Sep 16 AP: Raw video shows Syrian helicopter shot down by Turkey .embed-container { position: relative; padding-bottom: 2.25%; padding-top: 30px; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%; height: auto; } .embed-container iframe, .embed-container object, .embed-container embed { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%; } AP: A Turkish fighter jet… Continue reading
Sep 16 UN Secretary-General: Syria findings "beyond the pale" "The results are overwhelming and indisputable. Eight-five percent of the the blood samples tested positive for sarin, while a majority of the environmental samples confirmed the use of sarin. A majority of the rockets or rocket fragments recovered… Continue reading
Sep 16 U.N. report confirms chemical weapon use A newly released report from the United Nations gave the first official confirmation that deadly sarin gas was used in Syria on Aug. 21, but did not say who used it. The report says the use of chemical weapons is… Continue reading
Sep 16 Watch U.S. and Russia Disagree on Consequences if Syria Doesn't Comply With Arms Deal The United Nations confirmed that chemical weapons were used against Syrian civilians, but did not assign responsibility. Secretary of State John Kerry traveled to Paris to rally support for a U.S.-Russia agreement that would force Syria to remove or destroy… Continue watching
Sep 15 Watch Gauging Israeli Reaction to the Syrian Crisis Today Secretary of State Kerry was in Jerusalem offering Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu assurances that the United States will insist on full compliance by Bashar Al-Assad's regime. NewsHour Special Correspondent Martin Fletcher reports from Israel on what’s been on… Continue watching
Sep 14 Watch Will the Syrian Chemical Weapons Deal Work? Anthony Cordesman of the Center for Strategic and International Studies joins Hari Sreenivasan to discuss the deal between the US and Russia on Syria's chemical weapons and what effect the removal of such weapons may have on the Syrian civil… Continue watching