Middle East
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ANKARA: Turkey said on Friday any use of chemical weapons by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad would "take the crisis to another level", but remained cautious about any foreign military intervention in the conflict on its border. The White House said on Thursday Assad's government had probably used chemical arms on a small scale, but that President Barack Obama needed proof before he would act. "We have been hearing allegations of the use of chemical weapons for quite some time now and these new findings take things to another level. They are very alarming," Turkish foreign ministry spokesman Levent Gumrukcu said. "Since the very first reports of chemical weapons being used in Syria emerged we have been asking for a thorough investigation by the United Nations to substantiate these reports. However, the Syrian regime has not allowed this." Copyright Reuters, 2013 ...
WASHINGTON: The United States said Thursday for the first time that Syria had likely used chemical weapons against rebel forces, but emphasized spy agencies were still not 100 percent sure of the assessment.US intelligence services had been investigating reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's forces had used chemical arms -- a move Washington has said would cross a "red line," triggering possible military action.A senior White House official said "all options are on the table" ...
CAIRO: President Mohamed Mursi of Egypt will visit Brazil on May 7 for a two-day visit focused on the economy, his spokesman Ehab Fahmy said on Wednesday.Mursi, who won elections last June promising to address the battered economy, has already visited the four other member states of the BRICS group -- Russia, India, China and South Africa -- which he hopes Egypt can join.His visit to Brazil aims at strengthening "commercial, economic and industrial cooperation ...
DAMASCUS: An EU plan to buy oil from rebel-held areas of Syria is illegal and an "act of aggression," the Syrian foreign ministry warned on Tuesday in letters to the United Nations."In an unprecedented decision that contradicts international law and the UN Charter the European Union has decided to allow member states to import petrol under the pretext of supporting the opposition," it said, quoted by state news agency SANA. "It is an illegal decision ...
BEIRUT: Syria's opposition condemned on Tuesday the kidnapping of two Orthodox Christian bishops seized in the north of the country, and blamed the regime of President Bashar al-Assad for their capture. "Efforts to uncover the identities of the clerics' kidnappers and to liberate them indicate that the Syrian regime is responsible for the kidnapping, and (the) killing of Bishop Yohanna Ibrahim's driver," said the National Coalition. Ibrahim, the head of Aleppo's Syriac Orthodox diocese and ...
KIRKUK: Clashes Tuesday in north Iraq between security forces and anti-government protesters allegedly infiltrated by militants left 27 people dead and about 70 injured, top army officers said.The clashes broke out around 5:00 am (0200 GMT) when security forces entered an open area in Hawijah, west of Kirkuk, where demonstrations have been held since January, the high-ranking officers said.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
JERUSALEM: President Bashar al-Assad is using chemical weapons against rebel forces in Syria, a senior Israeli army officer told a conference on Tuesday."Assad is using chemical weapons in Syria," said Brigadier General Itai Brun, head of research and analysis in the army's military intelligence division, in remarks quoted on the army's official Twitter feed.Copyright AFP (Agence France-Presse), 2013 ...
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