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China welcomes US-Russia deal on Syria weapons

Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)

China on Sunday welcomed the deal between the United States and Russia to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons, which headed off the prospect of US strikes agains...

Bumpy road to destruction of Syria chemical weapons: experts

Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)

The US-Russian deal brokered Saturday to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons will be difficult if not impossible to implement, experts said, not least because of...

Relief, hope in Damascus after US-Russia deal

Sep 15, 2013 (AFP)

On the streets of Damascus, a US-Russian deal on Syria's chemical weapons has brought relief and hope the end of the country's devastating 30-month conflict may...

UN's Ban skeptical Assad will keep chemical arms deal

Sep 14, 2013 (AFP)

UN leader Ban Ki-moon said Friday he shares international doubts that Syria's President Bashar al-Assad will respect an international deal on his country's chem...

Kerry to visit Jerusalem Sunday to meet Israeli PM

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

US Secretary of State John Kerry will travel to Jerusalem Sunday to hold talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the progress made in the Middle...

Putin wins Iran, China backing for Syria plan

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

President Vladimir Putin on Friday won the support of Iran and China at a regional summit on Russia's initiative for Syria to hand over its chemical weapons, wh...

Syria moving around chemical weapons: report

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

Syria has scattered its stockpile of chemical weapons to as many as 50 sites in a bid to complicate US efforts to track them, the Wall Street Journal reported T...

Egypt military helicopters hit Sinai militants: security

Sep 13, 2013 (AFP)

Egyptian military helicopters on Friday carried out air strikes on Islamist militant positions in Sinai, two days after suicide bombers killed six soldiers in t...

By giving guns to rebels, US tries to squeeze Syrian regime

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

By delivering light weapons to Syria's rebels, the United States is seeking to pile pressure on Damascus and its patrons, rather than tip the balance on the bat...

US warships ready to 'strike hard' if called upon: Navy

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

US warships in the Mediterranean remain ready to "strike hard" against the Syrian regime if ordered by President Barack Obama, the Navy's top civilian said on W...

Egypt tanks cross fence leading to Gaza

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

Two Egyptian army tanks crossed an initial border fence leading to Gaza for the first time on Thursday, witnesses said, but did not enter the Palestinian territ...

Syria's words alone on chemical weapons not enough: Kerry

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

Washington is not prepared to trust the word of the Syrian regime alone that it will rid itself of chemical weapons, US Secretary of State John Kerry said Thurs...

Free Syrian Army rejects Russian chemical arms plan

Sep 12, 2013 (AFP)

The rebel Free Syrian Army categorically rejected Thursday a Russian proposal for placing Syria's chemical arms under international control, and called for regi...

Yemen's Hadi reinstates officers in south

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

Yemen's president issued a decree on Wednesday reinstating around 800 senior army officers and police who had been retired after the 1994 civil war. The officia...

11 dead in regime air strike on Syria field hospital: NGO

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

A Syrian regime air strike on a field hospital in the northern province of Aleppo killed at least 11 people on Wednesday, the Syrian Observatory for Human Right...

Memories flood back in Halabja after Syria gas attack

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

Mired in a years-long war, a strongman uses chemical weapons against his own people -- the story is one the people of Halabja know all too well. As accusations ...

Obama puts off Syria strikes amid talks on Russia plan

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

President Barack Obama said Tuesday it was too early to say if a Russian plan to secure Syria's chemical weapons could forestall US air strikes, but vowed to gi...

20 years on, historic Oslo accords seen as false dawn

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

Twenty years after the historic Oslo accords, seen then as the cornerstone of an imminent peace settlement, Israelis and Palestinians had to be dragged back to ...

US arms experts going with Kerry to meet Russians

Sep 11, 2013 (AFP)

A team of US arms experts will accompany Secretary of State John Kerry to Geneva to meet with Russian counterparts for high-stakes talks on Syria's chemical wea...

Outside View: Confronting Iran, Syria's conjoined twin

Sep 10, 2013 (UPI)

As U.S. President Barack Obama seeks congressional support authorizing military action against Syria for using chemical weapons against its own people, he ignor...