Secretary of State John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is testifying on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Tuesday to argue the Obama administration's case for using military force in Syria
President Barack Obama met with Senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham on Monday afternoon, in an effort to continue lobbying support to convince Congress to authorize military action against Syria over an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad
President Barack Obama announced Saturday he will seek congressional approval before launching any kind of military action on Syria, in hopes of punishing the Bashar al-Assad regime for its chemical weapons attack two weeks ago that killed hundreds over 1,000 people, including 426 children
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said Friday that unclassified U.S. intelligence revealed that the Bashar al-Assad Syrian government is responsible for the chemical attack in the suburbs of Damascus on August 21, laying out concrete evidence in an effort to support a potential military strike in the coming days,
The five permanent UN Security Council members met again on Thursday to discuss the appropriate response to last week's chemical attack. The meeting lasted for just under an hour. US, British, French, Chinese and Russian diplomats declined to comment to reporters after it.
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Tuesday that America was confident the Syrian government carried out a chemical weapon attack near Damascus last week. Obama said the use of chemical weapons affected the United States' national interests, raising the specter of whether military strikes on Bashar al-Assad's regime may be imminent
The Obama administration is building the public case for a military strike on Syria by releasing documents on last week's alleged chemical weapons attack, FoxNews.com reported on Tuesday. On Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry declared the evidence of a chemical weapons attack in Syria as "undeniable."
Secretary of State John Kerry condemned the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, commenting five days after a reported attack killed hundreds near Damascus, the Associated Press reported. While both sides of the conflict accuse the other of carrying out the attack, a senior U.S. official said over the week that signs point to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government
Unidentified snipers opened fire on a convoy of U.N. experts investigating chemical weapons attacks in Damascus, the UN said on Monday, as reported by the BBC. Syrian state media have already blamed opposition "terrorists" for the attack
"The United States strongly condemns any and all use of chemical weapons... We are formally requesting that the United Nations urgently investigate this new allegation. The U.N. investigative team, which is currently in Syria, is prepared to do so," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said in a statement Wednesday in light of a new report claiming that chemical weapons were used by pro-Bashar al Assad forces against opposition forces in the current civil war in Syria. In the report, Assad's forces may have gassed as many as 1,300 people in what would be considered the worst chemical attack in decades. Assad's forces, for its part have vehemently denied committed the attack. Its chief ally Russia also suggested that rebel forces may have stage the assault to provoke international action.
U.N. Secretary-General B Ki-Moon raised the death toll in Syria's civil war surpassing 100,000 up from nearly 93,000 just over a month ago. Ban called on the Syrian government and opposition to halt the violence in the 2 ½ civil war, saying it is "imperative to have a peace conference in Geneva as soon as possible."
Sharp divisions in ideologies over how to handle the civil war in Syria led to a chilly encounter between U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G8 Summit on Monday.
Nicole Lynn Mansfield, a 33-year-old woman from Flint Michigan, who was a convert to Islam, was reportedly to be killed alongside a British man by an ambush on an opposition scouting mission north of the city of Idlib, Syrian state media said on Friday.
Israeli Defense Minister Minister Moshe Yaalon said that a Russian plan to supply sophisticated anti-aircraft missiles to Syria amounted to a "threat," indicated that Israel is prepared to use force to stop the delivery, the Associated Press reported. A top Russian official said on Tuesday that the planned sale of S-3000 air-defense missiles to the Assad pro-Syrian government forces remain committed to the deal.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told Russian President Vladimir Putin that the U.S. and Russia share common interests in Syria, and that the two countries ought to work more closely to help end the bloodshed in the Arab country that has killed more than 70,000 people.
Syria's prime minister, Wael al-Halki, survived a bomb attack on his convoy in Damascus on Monday, underscoring the potency of the rebels in Damascus in their hopes of toppling Bashar al-Assad, Reuters reported. Six people were killed in the blast, the British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
