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Assad’s commanders have begged to use chemical weapons for four-and-a-half...

By Jennifer Smith | A German newspaper has reported claims President Assad’s government inflicted a chemical weapons attack without receiving his personal permission Syrian government forces pleaded...

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Assad’s commanders have begged to use chemical weapons for four-and-a-half...

By Jennifer Smith | A German newspaper has reported claims President Assad’s government inflicted a chemical weapons attack without receiving his personal permission Syrian government forces pleaded...

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Obama sides with accidental diplomacy over military threats on Syria in...

Below is the president’s speech in its entirety, as released by the White House a half-hour after Obama finished his delivery. My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria — why it...

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FTSE LIVE: Market calms as threat of US attack on Syria ebbs

By This Is Money Reporters | The FTSE 100 index has opened down 1.3 points at 6,582.7 as investors take a breather after a strong rally and book some profits from three-month highs. Worries about a...

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Obama sides with accidental diplomacy over military threats on Syria

Below is the president’s speech in its entirety, as released by the White House a half-hour after Obama finished his delivery. My fellow Americans, tonight I want to talk to you about Syria — why it...

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Britain could send experts into Syria to help destroy Assad’s stockpile of...

By Matt Chorley, Mailonline Political Editor | Cabinet minister Ken Clarke said British voters should not become isolationist British chemical weapons experts could be sent into Syria to oversee the...

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Syrian dictator Bashar Assad IS guilty of crimes against humanity, says UN chief

By Daily Mail Reporter | International law: UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon says he believes the Syrian regime is guilty of ‘many crimes against humanity’ United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon...

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Syria crisis: US and Russia agree deal to destroy Syria chemical weapons

By Mark Nicol | America and Russia yesterday agreed a deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons and promised UN sanctions if President Bashar al-Assad fails to comply. Syria must hand over a complete...

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Syria crisis: Russian link to Syrian missiles as UN confirms ‘clear evidence’...

By Mia De Graaf, Amanda Williams, James Rush and Jason Groves | Missiles used in last month’s nerve gas attack in Syria had Russian writing on the side, United Nations weapons inspectors have said. The...

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Assad vows to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons but still insists his soldiers...

By Daily Mail Reporter | Syrian President Bashar al Assad has vowed to destroy his country’s chemical weapons stockpile. The doctor-turned-dictator insisted that he has not used chemical weapon andThe...

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Assad ordered me three times to gas my people but I couldn’t do it, says...

By Kieran Corcoran | A former Syrian weapons chief has claimed that he was ordered to by President Assad to use chemical weapons on his own people, but that heThe post Assad ordered me three times to...

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Winston Churchill ‘wanted to use most devastating chemical weapon ever...

By Stuart Woledge | Devastating: Evidence has surfaced that Churchill ordered chemical weapons to be dropped on Russia He is feted as a national hero, but new evidence has comeThe post Winston...

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Assad could ¿take credit¿ for destroying chemical weapons so promptly, says...

By Mail Foreign Service | Bashar al-Assad’s regime could ‘take credit’ for its swift action in agreeing to destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons, according to a leading U.S. diplomat.The post Assad...

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Nobel peace prize winner OPCW chemical weapons watchdog

By Chris Pleasance | The Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to the watchdog responsible for preventing the use of chemical weapons.  The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical WeaponsThe post...

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Syrians besieged by Assad’s forces appeal for help in open letter

By Emma Thomas | Residents of a Syrian town besieged by President Bashar al-Assad’s forces appealed to the world to ‘save us from death’ in an open letter describing desperateThe post Syrians besieged...

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Destruction of Syrian chemical weapon production equipment ‘is complete’

By Simon Tomlinson | Syria has destroyed or rendered inoperable all of its declared chemical weapons production and mixing facilities, meeting a major deadline in an ambitious disarmament programme,...

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The iron harvest: Meet the soldiers tasked with clearing hundreds of tonnes...

By Allan Hall | The Duke of Edinburgh will represent the Queen and his country on Armistice Day tomorrow at what will signal the beginning of a year of extraordinaryThe post The iron harvest: Meet the...

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