UNICEF airlifts critical supplies for Syrian refugees

Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 19:41

A plane carrying 100 tonnes of Unicef emergency supplies to assist Syrian refugee children and families arrived Sunday night in Erbil in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.

Pressure on UK govt for a second Syria vote

Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 19:16

The UK government is under growing pressure to consider a second parliamentary vote on military action against Syria.

Syria asks UN to prevent aggression against it

Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 19:05

Syria has appealed to the United Nations to try to "prevent any aggression" against it, even as US President Barack Obama on Monday lobbied with war-weary lawmakers to convince them for a limited military strike.

Seven million Syrians displaced by civil war: UN

Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 18:58

Seven million Syrians, or nearly one-third of the population, have been displaced by the country`s civil war, but international aid to them has been a "drop in the sea" of humanitarian need, a top UN official said.

France to give `clear evidence` Syria regime behind gas attack

Last Updated: Monday, September 2, 2013, 18:53

France was set on Monday to provide what it says is clear evidence that the Syrian regime was behind a devastating chemical attack, as Western leaders bid to overcome widespread scepticism to military action.

Going to Congress not an American retreat: John Kerry

Last Updated: Sunday, September 1, 2013, 21:07

President Barack Obama`s decision to seek a Congressional nod for a military strike on Syria is not an American retreat as being described by the Syrian regime, Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday.

US has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria attack: John Kerry

Last Updated: Sunday, September 1, 2013, 20:52

Blood and hair samples collected from the chemical attack site in Syria have "tested positive for signatures of sarin gas", US Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday said.

Syrians flee to Lebanon as US prepares for strike

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 23:21

As UN inspectors crossed the border from Syria into Lebanon Saturday, they were followed out of the war-torn country by a continuous flow of families desperate to flee the threat of US strikes.

US claim on Syria attacks `nonsensical`: Vladimir Putin

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 17:21

Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday verbally attacked the US claim on Syria regime`s involvement in the recent chemical attacks and called it `illogical`.

UN team leaves Syria as US mulls `limited action`

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 12:54

The United Nations team reportedly completed their investigation in the suspected chemical attack in Syria on Saturday and crossed into Lebabon.

Sixth US ship now in eastern Mediterranean `as precaution`

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 11:44

A sixth US warship is now operating in the eastern Mediterranean, near five US destroyers armed with cruise missiles that could soon be directed against Syria as part of a "limited, precise" strike, defense officials said.

Syria says US evidence of chemical attack fabricated

Last Updated: Saturday, August 31, 2013, 11:29

Damascus said that a US intelligence report concluding that the Syrian regime used chemical weapons in an onslaught that killed close to 1,500 people was "entirely fabricated".