Biological and Chemical Weapons

(Adds Hezbollah, Davutoglu, UK on arms embargo) * No evidence of rebel use - PM Cameron's spokesman * Kerry says Assad cannot be part of transition government * Israel asks Russia not to sell Syria defence missiles By Andrew Roche LONDON, May 9...

(Ian Bremmer is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Ian Bremmer May 9 (Reuters) - Through two years of Syrian crisis, the Obama administration has cautiously dragged its feet as the United States is further enmeshed in the conflict....

WASHINGTON, May 9 (Reuters) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has fired missiles with chemical weapons at his opponents, crossing President Barack Obama's red line a "long time ago," Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as telling NBC...

Some Republican U.S. senators are urging President Obama to intervene more aggressively on the side of rebels in the Syrian civil war, especially in the wake of reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against his people....

* No evidence of rebel use - PM Cameron's spokesman * Kerry says Assad cannot be part of transition government * Israel asks Russia not to sell Syria defence missiles By Andrew Roche LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it believed it...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it believed it was "very likely" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but said it had "no evidence to date" that rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used such...

(Adds EU arms ban moves, Internet outage ends, edits) * US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says...

* Syria mediator Brahimi determined to quit, diplomats say * U.N. Security Council deadlocked over how to act on Syria * Syria blocking access to U.N. chemical weapons inquiry By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, May 2 (Reuters) - U.N. chief Ban Ki-...

Outrage. That's what we should feel over the Syrian government's slaughter of more than 70,000 of its own people and its use of chemical weapons. And outrage is what we should feel over the international community's total impotence. Despite nearly...

President Barack Obama said the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line," be a "game changer" and possibly change his opinion about intervening to halt President Bashar Assad's slaughter of civilians in Syria. Reports from NATO, other...

Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Iranian weapons destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could be seen as heralding wider international involvement in Syria’s intractable civil war. Reports  of sarin gas attacks in Syria also conjure the...

LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday that there was "a growing body of limited but persuasive information" showing that the Syrian government had used and was continuing to use chemical weapons such as sarin...