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US presents its case against Syria, leaving little doubt of military action

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 04:38 PM PDT

The Obama administration offered on Friday its evidence of "large-scale" use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad through a detailed and impassioned statement by Secretary of State John Kerry. His statement left very little doubt that the US will take action in the coming days to hold the Syrian regime accountable.

'Don't ask, don't tell' activist dies in NY wreck

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 04:36 PM PDT

FILE This Jan. 8, 2008 file photo, Sgt. Darren Manzella, an openly gay active duty soldier back from Iraq, speaks with reporters about serving under the "don't ask, don't tell" policy, at the National Press Club in Washington. Manzella has died in a traffic accident in western New York. He was 36. A relative Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, confirmed his death. The Monroe County Sheriff's Office said Manzella was driving on Interstate 490 in suburban Rochester about 8:30 p.m. Thursday when his vehicle sideswiped a car. Deputies said he stopped his vehicle, got out and began pushing the car from behind. He was then hit by an SUV, pinning him between the two vehicles. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) — Darren Manzella, a gay combat medic discharged from the Army after criticizing the military's 'don't ask, don't tell' policy in a 2007 television interview, has died in a traffic accident in western New York. He was 36.


Obama says world cannot stand by on Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 04:30 PM PDT

Syrians gather near vehicles of UN arms experts as they inspect a site on August 28, 2013President Barack Obama insisted Friday that war weariness cannot excuse world powers from their duty to punish Syria after the gassing to death of hundreds of women and children.


In shadow of Iraq, U.S. has 'high confidence' Syria carried out chemical attack

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 04:08 PM PDT

Men walk past damaged buildings at a site hit by what activists say was a car bomb in Raqqa provinceBy Tabassum Zakaria and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. intelligence agencies publicly disclosed on Friday some of the information that led to a "high-confidence" assessment that the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad carried out a chemical weapons attack on neighborhoods outside Damascus. But the declassified intelligence report also showed what the U.S. government does not have: clear evidence that Assad personally ordered the attack, and physiological evidence confirming what caused the deaths of an estimated 1,429 Syrians on August 21. U.S. ...


U.S. says world cannot let Assad get away with chemical attack

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 04:02 PM PDT

By Steve Holland and Catherine Bremer WASHINGTON/PARIS (Reuters) - The United States made clear on Friday that it would punish Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the "brutal and flagrant" chemical weapons attack that it says killed more than 1,400 people in Damascus last week. "We cannot accept a world where women and children and innocent civilians are gassed on a terrible scale," President Barack Obama told reporters at the White House. ...

Britain fears end of US 'special relationship' over Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:53 PM PDT

British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on August 29, 2013Britain and the United States insisted Friday that that their "special relationship" was not under threat after the British parliament blocked Prime Minister David Cameron from joining US-led military action against Syria.


Syrians bracing for possible US strike

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:42 PM PDT

In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in the Situation Room of the White House, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, in Washington, including from left national security adviser Susan Rice; Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.


U.N. investigators to exit Syria, chemical probe may take weeks

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:31 PM PDT

Sellstrom, head of U.N. chemical weapons investigation team, stands outside Yousef al-Azma military hospital in DamascusBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A team of U.N. experts finished gathering evidence of a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, the United Nations announced on Friday, though envoys said analyzing the samples may take weeks. The announcement the U.N. inspectors will not be releasing their findings immediately came as Washington suggested the U.N. investigation would have no bearing on its decision about whether to attack Syria in retaliation for the alleged poison gas attack on civilians. ...


A look at Syria developments around the world

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 03:07 PM PDT

This citizen journalism image provided by Edlib News Network, ENN, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, Syrians search under rubble to rescue people from houses that were destroyed by a Syrian government warplane, in Idlib province, northern Syria, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. United Nations experts are investigating the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria as the United States and its allies prepare for the possibility of a punitive strike against President Bashar Assad's regime, blamed by the Syrian opposition for the attack. The international aid group Doctors Without Borders says at least 355 people were killed in the Aug. 21 attack in a suburb of Damascus, the Syrian capital.( AP Photo/Edlib News Network ENN)The United States is considering launching a punitive strike against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, blamed by the U.S. and the Syrian opposition for an Aug. 21 chemical weapons attack in a rebel-held suburb of the Syrian capital of Damascus.


Syrians steel themselves for US strike

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:59 PM PDT

In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in the Situation Room of the White House, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, in Washington, including from left national security adviser Susan Rice; Attorney General Eric Holder, Secretary of State John Kerry, and Vice President Joe Biden. (AP Photo/The White House, Pete Souza)WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging toward a punitive strike against Syria, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.


On Syria, England defects

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:57 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama walks with Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron during the G8 summit at the Lough Erne golf resort in EnniskillenBy John Lloyd Thursday's British House of Commons vote against Britain aiding in a Syrian intervention led me to center on one question: what will happen to the U.S.-UK relationship? Is that alliance now gravely weakened? Can it survive in a meaningful form? Specifically, will Britain ever again be able to partner with the United States in any future military interventions? Without Britain, the United States will certainly carry on. It has a new best friend in France — french fries top of the menu now! — and maybe Turkey will be willing, too. ...


Inconsistent allies: France, US mull Syria action

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:42 PM PDT

FILE - In this Friday, May 18, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama, right, meets with French President Francois Hollande, in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. After Britain on Friday, Aug. 30, 2013, opted out of a possible military strike against Syria, France and the United States were left standing as the two countries most vocally contemplating armed action against Bashar Assad's regime over a suspected chemical weapons attack on his own people. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)PARIS (AP) — If France and the United States are ever going to move beyond French opposition to the Iraq War, this could be the time.


US releases intelligence on Syria chemical attack: 5 takeaways

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:41 PM PDT

The US government assesses with "high confidence" that the Syrian government turned chemical weapons on its own citizens in the Damascus suburbs on Aug. 21, according to a long-awaited declassified US intelligence assessment.

US says has 'duty' to act after Syria nerve gas attack

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:20 PM PDT

UN arms experts arrive to inspect a site suspected of being hit by a deadly chemical weapons attack on August 28, 2013The United States released intelligence Friday to show why it is certain that Syrian forces have killed civilians with chemical weapons and said Washington has a historic duty to act.


U.S. casts action in Syria as moral imperative but sets no timetable

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 02:10 PM PDT

U.N. vehicles, carrying United Nations chemical weapons experts, arrive at Yousef al-Azma military hospital in DamascusBy Arshad Mohammed and Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration made a forceful case on Friday for limited U.S. military action against Syria, releasing evidence the Syrian government had used chemical weapons against civilians several times during the past year and saying the "indiscriminate, inconceivable horror" of a deadly attack last week could not go unpunished. ...


Iraqi militia vowes to attack U.S. interests if Syria hit

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:53 PM PDT

Residents inspect buildings damaged by what activists said were warplanes belonging to forces loyal to Syria's president Al-Assad in IskatBAGHDAD (Reuters) - An Iraqi Shi'ite militia group said on Friday it would attack U.S. interests in Iraq and the region if Washington carries out a military strike on Syria. President Barack Obama said on Friday the United States was still in the planning process for a response to the chemical weapons use in Syria. "All their interests and facilities in Iraq and the region will be targeted by our militants if the United States insists on attacking Syria," a spokesman for the Iraqi militia group al-Nujaba'a told Reuters by telephone, without giving details. ...


UK's Cameron must fight back after tough setback

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:52 PM PDT

Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron at 10 Downing Street in London, Friday, Aug. 30 2013. Cameron lost a vote endorsing military action against Syria by 13 votes Thursday, a stunning defeat that will almost guarantee that Britain plays no direct role in any U.S. attack on Bashar Assad's government. Cameron said that while he still believed in a "tough response" to the alleged use of chemical weapons by Assad's regime, he would respect the will of Parliament. Cameron was meeting with Chief Minister of Gibraltar Fabian Picardo in Downing Street Friday for talks on the border dispute with Spain. (AP Photo / Lewis Whyld, Pool)LONDON (AP) — David Cameron seemed the picture of a confident national leader when he cut short his vacation early this week to muster support for a military reprisal against Syria for its purported use of chemical weapons against civilians. He stood with President Barack Obama, facing down a dictator, demanding respect for international law.


U.N. experts prepare to leave Syria, chemical probe needs time

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:49 PM PDT

U.N. vehicles, carrying United Nations chemical weapons experts, arrive at Yousef al-Azma military hospital in DamascusBy Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - A team of U.N. investigators has finished gathering evidence related to a suspected chemical weapons attack that killed hundreds of people in suburbs near Damascus last week, but will need time to complete its analysis, the world body said on Friday. The announcement the U.N. inspectors will not be releasing their findings immediately came as Washington suggested the U.N. investigation would have no bearing on its decision about whether to attack Syria in retaliation for the alleged poison gas attack on civilians. ...


For Turkey, Planned U.S. Missile Strikes on Syria Not Good Enough

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:39 PM PDT

For some American allies, such as the UK, whose parliament seemed to reject any armed involvement in Syria on Thursday, punitive airstrikes against the regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad might be too much to stomach. For others, it may be too little. As the U.S. readies to proceed with limited missile strikes against Syria in response to a chemical weapons attack that killed over a thousand people last week, Turkey, a key regional ally and Syria's neighbor, seems to want more than Washington is willing to give.

Scant foreign support for US strikes on Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:39 PM PDT

FILE - This Oct. 27, 1983 black-and-white file photo shows two officers in the U.S. Army stationed at the Port Salines airport in Grenada confering as they walk near the tarmac. U.S. forces have set up heavy security around the perimeter of the air strip on the tiny island. President Barack Obama is poised to become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack a foreign nation without broad international support or in direct defense of Americans. Not since President Ronald Reagan ordered an invasion of the Caribbean island of Grenada in 1983 has the U.S. been so alone in pursuing major lethal military action beyond a few attacks responding to strikes or threats against its citizens. (AP Photo/Doug Jennings, File)WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is poised to become the first U.S. leader in three decades to attack a foreign nation without mustering broad international support or acting in direct defense of Americans.


Exclusive - Syria army defectors say U.S. strikes could kill Assad opponents

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:33 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks at the White House in WashingtonBy Oliver Holmes and Khaled Yacoub Oweis BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Military sites in Syria are packed with soldiers who have been effectively imprisoned by their superiors due to doubts about their loyalty, ex-soldiers say, making them possible casualties in any U.S.-led air strikes. Thousands of loyal security forces and militia, meanwhile, have moved into schools and residential buildings in Damascus, mixing with the civilian population in the hope of escaping a Western strike, according to residents and opposition activists. U.S. ...


France set to become Washington's main Syria ally

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:30 PM PDT

US President Barack Obama (R) and French President Francois Hollande attend the G8 summit on May 19, 2012 in MarylandFrench President Francois Hollande made clear Friday his wish to take military action alongside the US against the Syrian regime, making Paris Washington's main ally in the Syria crisis after Britain backed out of any strikes.


Obama says Syria chemical weapons attack threatens Israel, Jordan

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:25 PM PDT

U.S. President Barack Obama speaks about Syria at the White House in WashingtonBy Steve Holland and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday the chemical weapons attack in Syria threatened U.S. allies Israel, Turkey and Jordan and that while "nobody ends up being more war weary than me" he is considering a narrow, limited U.S. response. Obama, speaking to reporters at a meeting he held with Baltic leaders, said the United States must be prepared to act unilaterally if necessary to uphold what he called an international norm against the use of chemical weapons as part of U.S. obligations as a world leader. As he spoke, the U.S. ...


Obama weighs 'limited and narrow' Syria action

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:16 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses after speaking to members of the media during his meeting with Baltic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Speking about Syria, the president said he hasn't made a final decision about a military strike against Syria. But he says he's considering a limited and narrow action in response to a chemical weapons attack that he says Syria's government carried out last week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging toward a retaliatory strike, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action against Syria as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.


Most in U.S. still oppose Syria strike as Obama seeks action

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT

The "Act now to stop war and end racism" (ANSWER) coalition holds a rally outside the White House in WashingtonBy Andy Sullivan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most Americans still do not want to intervene in Syria's civil war, although support for such action has increased since the suspected chemical gas attack near Damascus last week, according to a new Reuters/Ipsos poll. The poll made clear how much work President Barack Obama has to do to win support for military action from a war-weary public as he makes the case that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should be held responsible for the attack that the United States says killed more than 1,400 people. ...


Assad’s Newest Ally: Venezuelan Congressman Goes to Syria to Fight Rebels, the U.S.

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:10 PM PDT

"Syria needs full support against these criminals," wrote Venezuelan lawmaker Adel el-Zabayar in a letter to his country's National Assembly this week. He was requesting indefinite leave from office in order to fight alongside the Syrian army, having arrived in the country two weeks ago to visit his ill mother. With the upcoming threat of military attack by the US, he has decided to stick around and fight. "Without doubt, I'll have a weapon," he told TIME by telephone early on Friday morning local time from a site he said was around 50 miles south of Damascus near the city of Sweida. ...

Leaked 'black budget': Mixed views on damage to US intel operations

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 01:02 PM PDT

The "black budget" for US clandestine operations – newly leaked by former US contractor Edward Snowden – portrays a sprawling global operation that is geared to detect and defeat terrorists, but is dominated by a data-collection program so massive that other priorities could easily be crowded out, analysts and critics said one day after the top-secret document was published.

Syria and the politicization of British foreign policy

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:53 PM PDT

Demonstrators hold placards outside the Houses of Parliament in London(Reuters) - Syria's population - at the heart of so many proxy battles for influence - last night found itself drawn into a different kind of conflict - this time over the future of British politics. After the British Parliament's vote against action in Syria, the former Liberal Democrat leader, Lord Ashdown, tweeted that Britain is a "hugely diminished country" this morning: "In 50 years trying to serve my country I have never felt so depressed/ashamed. ...


Frustrated Obama: I won't be ‘paralyzed’ on Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:18 PM PDT

International military footprint in the Middle EastObama promises a "limited, narrow" response.


US says Syrian chemical attack killed 1,429

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 12:16 PM PDT

President Barack Obama pauses after speaking to members of the media during his meeting with Baltic leaders in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington, Friday, Aug. 30, 2013. Speking about Syria, the president said he hasn't made a final decision about a military strike against Syria. But he says he's considering a limited and narrow action in response to a chemical weapons attack that he says Syria's government carried out last week. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)WASHINGTON (AP) — Edging toward a retaliatory strike, President Barack Obama said Friday he is weighing "limited and narrow" action against Syria as the administration bluntly accused Bashar Assad's government of launching a chemical weapons attack that killed at least 1,429 people — far more than previous estimates — including more than 400 children.


Kerry Calls Assad ‘Thug’ and ‘Murderer’ in Deadly Chemical Attacks

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:44 AM PDT

Pressure mounted Friday for the international community to take action in Syria after American officials announced they are confident in intelligence reports that found Syrian leader Bashar al Assad attacked his own people with chemical weapons, killing at least 1,429 people—including 426 children.

US not alone on Syria, France our 'oldest ally': Kerry

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:44 AM PDT

US Secretary of State John Kerry speaks about the situation in Syria in Washington, DC, on August 30, 2013Secretary of State John Kerry insisted Friday the United States is not alone in its quest to punish Bashar al-Assad's Syrian regime, citing the support of France, America's "oldest ally."


Blasts in north Iraq town kill at least 13: officials

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:31 AM PDT

Iraqis inspect the damage from a suicide bomber in the Iraqi city of Tuz Khurmatu on August 11, 2013Two roadside bombs exploded on the edge of the north Iraq town of Tuz Khurmatu Friday, killing at least 13 people, seven of them children, police and the town's mayor said.


Iraq violence kills 14 as al-Qaida claims attacks

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:11 AM PDT

FILE - in this file photo taken on Wednesday, Aug. 28, 2013 People inspect the site of a car bomb attack at a vegetable market in Jamilah neighborhood in Baghdad, Iraq. Violence inside Iraq has accelerated in recent months to levels not seen since 2008, with more than 4,000 people killed since the start of April. The growing unrest, marked by frequent coordinated car bombings and other attacks blamed mostly on al-Qaida's local branch, is intensifying fears Iraq is heading back toward the widespread sectarian killing that peaked in 2006 and 2007. (AP Photo/Khalid Mohammed, File)BAGHDAD (AP) — The Iraqi branch of al-Qaida claimed responsibility Friday for a lethal wave of coordinated bombings in the Baghdad area earlier this week, as new attacks killed another 14 in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the country.


U.S. Secretary of State Kerry makes statement on Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 11:03 AM PDT

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry delivered remarks on Friday on Syria amid U.S. intelligence findings that a Syrian chemical weapons attack killed 1,429 Syrian civilians, including 426 children. Below is a transcript of Kerry's statement, as transmitted by Roll Call, Inc: "President Obama has spent many days now consulting with Congress and talking with leaders around the world about the situation in Syria. ...

Bomb blast kills 12 in northern Iraqi town

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:46 AM PDT

BAGHDAD (AP) — The police chief of a northern Iraqi town says a bomb blast in a residential area there has killed 12 and wounded 10 in the latest outbreak of violence to hit the country.

Kerry makes case for limited military action on Syria

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:43 AM PDT

U.S. Secretary of State Kerry speaks about the situation in Syria at the State Department in WashingtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday made a broad case for limited U.S. military action against Syria for its suspected use of chemical weapons, saying it could not go unpunished for such a "crime against humanity." Kerry also stressed that anything the United States might do would be carefully tailored and would not in any way resemble the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, nor its intervention to help topple former Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. "It will not involve any boots on the ground. It will not be open-ended. ...


Is Syria the new Iraq?

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:29 AM PDT

Might Syria be the new Iraq?

Kerry: U.S. has proof Assad guilty of 'crime against humanity'

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:27 AM PDT

Top diplomat promises U.S. not making Iraq-style mistakes

Eyes on nuclear talks, Iran tempers support for Assad

Posted: 30 Aug 2013 10:27 AM PDT

As an American military strike looms over Syria, Iran is weighing its decades-long alliance with Syria against its own pledges to reengage with the US and the West over its nuclear program and other issues.

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