Fahmy joins a diplomatic forum on the Middle East in Paris
FM Nabil Fahmy to meet with US Secretary of State John Kerry and French FM Laurent Fabius to discuss Palestine, Syria and Egypt
Latest in Tag: chemical weapons Highlight
Latest in Tag: chemical weapons
Arab League calls for international response to Syria
Egypt hesitant on determining who used chemical weapons in Syrian conflict
Al-Azhar condemns possible strike on Syria
The Islamic institution stresses its opposition to the use of chemical weapons
Arab League foreign ministers to meet on Syria
Egypt rejects US led military strike on Syria, allies in the region agree says Fahmy
UN team heads to army hospital on last day in Syria
The UN inspectors are due to leave Syria by Saturday morning, and will report straight back to UN head Ban Ki-moon
Tamarod urges closing Suez Canal to vessels supporting strike on Syria
Campaign calls for “precautionary measures to prevent attacks” on Syria
Egypt rejects military solution in Syria
Foreign ministry spokesman says we must find a political solution
Syria chemical use would be ‘crime against humanity’: Ban Ki-moon
Damascus denied it unleashed chemical weapons, particularly at a time when the UN was in Syria to inspect three sites where other such attacks allegedly took place.
What are the West’s military options in Syria?
Following reports of a large-scale chemical weapons strike, pressure is mounting on the US and its Western allies to act to halt the violence in Syria.
Syria urged to allow UN to site of ‘chemical attack’
Syria came under intense pressure to allow UN inspectors to visit the site of an alleged chemical weapons attack near Damascus
Amr: Egypt is on the side of the Syrian people
Friends of Syria state rejection of intervention that can lead to further bloodshed
US pledges military aid to Syria rebels as battles rage
Obama’s administration announced Thursday it had conducted a review of intelligence reports and concluded that Syrian regime forces had used banned arms, including sarin nerve gas
Assad gains sharpen focus on arming Syrian rebels
Hague and Kerry made a passionate plea for Europe, the US and its allies to do more for “the innocent victims of war and repression.”
Haunted by Iraq war, US cautious on Syria
Biden’s remarks were some of the clearest yet from a currently serving top US official linking the decision to invade Iraq a decade ago and Washington’s current hesitation toward Syria
UN commission on Syria says no conclusive evidence of Sarin gas use
Syria blames Israel for Sunday’s airstrike near Damascus; UN investigators say no conclusive evidence links Damascus to the use of chemical weapons
US lawmakers demand action on Syria chemical weapons
Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee: Red lines have been crossed in Syria.
Russia says Syria rebels used chemical weapons
Russia says it has information Syria rebels used chemical weapons
Fears of Syria chemical arms founded but use unlikely
Damascus has insisted it would never deploy chemical arms in the 21-month conflict
Britain sees evidence Assad could use chemical weapons
Washington has said the use of chemical weapons would be a red line but that it fears battlefield advances by the rebels could prompt the Assad regime to use them
Alarm over Syria’s secretive chemical weapons
A US official told AFP that Syria had begun mixing chemicals that could be used to make sarin
Syria says will never use chemical arms against own people
Damascus acknowledged for the first time in late July that it possessed chemical weapons
Syrian foreign minister accuses US of recreating Iraq scenario
Fighting continues across Syria following destruction of UNESCO world heritage site in Aleppo on Sunday
Reward offered for capturing Al-Assad
Meanwhile Syrian army reported to have tested chemical weapons
Syria threatens to use chemical weapons against ‘foreign aggressors’
Fighting between the Free Syrian Army (FSA) and forces loyal to President Assad has escalated in Aleppo
Alarms raised over possible chemical weapons in Syria
After the bloodshed in Tremseh, alarms are raised over the possibility of a chemical weapons attack in Syria