Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
By ERIKA KINETZ and DESMOND BUTLER For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal…
Chemical terrorism
UN: ‘UNSPEAKABLE SUFFERING’ FOR SYRIA’S CHILDREN
By BARBARA SURK FILE – In this file photo taken Friday, Oct. 26, 2012, displaced Syrian children gather barefoot in a refugee camp near Atma, Idlib province, Syria. Children in…
SAUDI ARABIA REJECTS SEAT ON UN SECURITY COUNCIL
By AYA BATRAWY and EDITH M. LEDERER FILE – In this Friday, Sept. 27, 2013 file photo, the United Nations Security Council votes on a resolution that will require Syria…
IN NORTHERN PUSH, SYRIAN TROOPS REOPEN KEY ROAD
By BASSEM MROUE In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks during an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel, in Damascus,…
IRAN’S PRESIDENT TONES DOWN ANTI-ISRAEL RHETORIC
By LARA JAKES Hasan Rouhani, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, addresses the 68th United Nations General Assembly at UN headquarters, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2013. (AP Photo/Brendan McDermid, Pool)…
SYRIAN REGIME SHELLING NEAR DAMASCUS KILLS 16
By BARBARA SURK This Friday, Sept. 6, 2013 citizen journalism image provided by Aleppo Media Center AMC which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows…
A LOOK AT SYRIA DEVELOPMENTS AROUND THE WORLD
By The Associated Press In this citizen journalism image provided by The Syrian Revolution against Bashar Assad which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, a…
SYRIANS BRACING FOR POSSIBLE US STRIKE
By DAVID ESPO and ELAINE GANLEY In this image provided by The White House, President Barack Obama meets with his national security staff to discuss the situation in Syria, in…