06/03/2014

Israeli troops shot two Lebanese Hezbollah fighters who tried to plant a bomb on the fence between the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and Syrian-held territory on Wednesday, the army said, according to Reuters news agency. Israeli…

WASHINGTON (AFP) - The United States (US) is restricting the movement of Syria's United Nations (UN) ambassador, limiting him to a 40km radius around New York City, the State Department said on Wednesday. Officials gave no explanation for…

Munster — Behind barbed wire fences at a top-security site in a German forest, workers in hazard suits will soon destroy remnants of Syrian chemical weapons of a type first tested here during World War I. Far from the battlefields of the…

Malnourished refugees facing death in Lebanon Nearly 2,000 Syrian children under five are at risk of death from malnutrition, a number that UNICEF says could rise rapidly. Source: Now Media Blog Tit for Tat in Bahrain The…

The U.N. Security Council failed to take action that could have prevented much of the human suffering in Syria, a U.N. commission of inquiry said Wednesday. The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on the Syrian Arab Republic published its…

Chemical weapons used in two incidents in Syria last year appear to come from the stockpiles of the Syrian military, United Nations human rights investigators said on Wednesday in a report that went beyond previous findings. The team of…

5 March 2014 – A recent acceleration of efforts by Syria and the submission of a revised timeline for removing toxic agents bode well for meeting the 30 June 2014 deadline for destroying the country’s chemical weapons programme, the…