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• Syria's Chemical Gas Attack, Trump Blames Obama

  Syria's chemical gas attack in a rebel-held area in Idlib highlighted the hole in the Trump administration’s foreign policymaking.

• Assad says Syria war will be long, difficult: Paris Match

  Syria's conflict will be long and difficult and its army cannot be everywhere at once, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview published by a French magazine on Thursday, in which he also vowed to remain in power.

• U.S. to Assad: Beware of interfering with U.S. air power in Syria

  The Syrian military's air defenses would face retaliation if Syria attempted to respond to U.S. air strikes that are expected against Islamic State targets in Syria, senior U.S. officials said on Monday.

• Samantha Power: UN Ambassador Defends President Obama's Stance On Syria & Pushes Again For Disabilities Act (Video)

  Samantha Power, the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, defended President Barack Obama's policies on the civil war in Syria, arguing that the recent United Nations agreement to destroy President Bashar Assad's stockpile of chemical weapons is a benefit, even if the massive scale of violence wages on.

• Nobel Peace Prize: Chemical Weapons Watchdog Group Wins Prestigious Award For 'Extensive Work' in Syria (Video)

  The Nobel Prize committee honored the United Nations-backed Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a small organization which dispatched experts to Syria after a gas attack killed more than 1,400 people near Damascus in August.

• U.S-Russia Syrian Deal: An Agreement Reached Stating Assad's Chemical Weapons Must Go By Mid-2014 (Video)

  The United States and Russia struck a compromise on Saturday, which allows the Syrian government its stockpile of chemical weapons to be removed or destroyed by next year.

• Israel: Pro-Assad Army Warns Jewish State 'Will Become Target' If Full-Scale Attack Waged Against Syria (Video)

  A senior Syrian army official told an Iranian that Israel will be the first country that it will attack should the U.S. launch missiles at them.

• Syria Chemical Weapons: President Obama, in Israel, Says Use in the Arab Civil War Would Be a 'Game-Changer'

  President Barack Obama said that the use of chemical weapons in Syria would be a "game-changer," demanding action from the international community. The president stressed that the U.S. and other nations are still determining whether those weapons were used.