The Syrian government, almost a week after a chemical weapons attack killed more than 300 people, is finally allowing United Nations inspectors to visit the site.
The team is scheduled to arrive some time Monday although U.K. Foreign Secretary William Teague says evidence could have been tampered with, degraded or even destroyed in the days since the Wednesday attack. Continue reading
France is calling for international force to be used in Syria if it can be proven that yesterday’s attack on a civilian population was the result of the government using chemical weapons.
“France’s position is that there must be a reaction,” French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told the BFM TV channel. “A reaction that could take the form of a reaction with force.”
France, the U.K. and Turkey have all demanded action by the United Nations. Continue reading
Syrian opposition leaders say the government launched a chemical weapons attack overnight, killing entirely families while they slept. An official death toll has not been released but most activist groups place the number of dead in the hundreds.
The toxic attack was launched in the suburbs of the Ghouta region as part of an assault on rebel forces according to the BBC. Continue reading
The Israeli Counter Terrorism Bureau has released a report showing that al-Qaeda and other Islamic terrorists groups are planning a major focus on Israeli and Jewish targets over the next few weeks.
The report listed dozens of nations where the CTB was “concrete” proof of a terrorist threat. Israeli citizens were urged to immediately leave nations Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Syria and Lebanon among others. A travel restriction was put in place to other nations such as Libya, Tunisia and Sudan. Continue reading
Rebels attempting to overthrow the Syrian government have captured a key airbase near the Turkish border according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The base had been a main target of the rebel forces since last year. Continue reading
A rocket attack on an arms dump in Syria has killed at least 40 according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.
The death toll is expected to rise as more than 100 people have been injured, many of them seriously wounded. Continue reading
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon has reported the total number of dead in the Syrian civil war has topped 100,000.
The total is over 7,000 higher than issued last month by the UN. Continue reading
Syrian government forces in northwest Syria have killed thirteen members of the same family, almost all women and children. Some reports from activists groups in the region say some of the victims were burned alive.
The massacre happened in Bayda near the seaport of Banias. The family was in a Sunni village where government supporters have been trying to rid the area of Sunnis. Continue reading
Russia has released a report where they claim Syrian rebels fired one canister of chemical weapons into a village in northern Syria.
Russia, an ally and apologist for the Syrian government, has long been resisting international efforts to remove President Bashir al-Assad from power and has disputed results of multiple reports showing conclusive proof of the government’s use of toxic sarin gas against rebels and civilians. Continue reading
A Catholic priest who was setting up a monastery in Gassanieh, Syria was seized by Islamic extremist rebels last Sunday and executed.
The Vatican confirmed over the weekend that Islamists beheaded Father Francois Murad. According to the Catholic news service, the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Nusra front was behind the savage murder. Continue reading