September 28, 2013
3:48 am

The United Nations Security Council votes during a September meeting, at UN Headquarters in New York City (photo credit: AP/Craig Ruttle)

UN votes to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons

Security Council unanimously endorses destroying stockpiles, roadmap for political transition; Kerry: This shows diplomacy can ‘defuse worst weapons of war’

By AP

September 28, 2013
2:51 am

Spokesman Michael Luhan gives a brief statement outside the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, in The Hague, Netherlands, Friday Sept. 27, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

Global watchdog approves Syria disarmament plan

Approval of ambitious strategy paves way for UN Security Council to adopt resolution that would make the plan legally binding

By AP

September 27, 2013
7:09 pm

Palestinians hurl stones at Israeli police officers (unseen) in East Jerusalem (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Palestinians mark Intifada anniversary with stones

Six Israelis injured in clashes in Jerusalem and West Bank, hours after terror groups call for third uprising

By Adiv Sterman

September 27, 2013
4:38 pm

Site of a car bombing outside of a mosque in Rankous, Syria, on Friday (photo credit: @janoub_lebnan via Twitter)

Car bomb kills at least 30 near Syria mosque

UN says weapons experts will probe 7 alleged chemical attacks, 4 more than previously known

By Bassem Mroue and RYAN LUCAS

September 22, 2013
11:32 pm

A Syrian opposition fighter watches over as heavy fighting breaks out in in the Idlib province countryside, Syria, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2013 (photo credit: AP Photo)

Mortar round lands in Russian Embassy in Damascus

Three workers injured in attack, which officials in Moscow say was carried out by rebel fighters

By Jamal Halaby and Jim Heintz

September 22, 2013
5:47 am

A Syrian man mourns over a dead body after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces in Damascus, on August 24, 2013. (photo credit: Media Office Of Douma City, AP File)

Month after chemical attack, Syrians struggle to survive

From the web Hundreds in area still sick from release of sarin gas, but continued shelling and malnutrition exacerbating situation, Washington Post reports

September 18, 2013
5:54 am

Bodies being buried after the August 21 chemical attack near Damascus (photo credit: AP/Shaam News Network)

Syrian official: Rebels used sarin gas, not us

High-ranking security source denies Assad forces ever used chemical weapons, claims West trained opposition fighters

By Adiv Sterman

September 17, 2013
7:29 pm

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius, left, and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov shake hands at the end of their news conference after their meeting in Moscow, Russia, on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2013 (photo credit: AP /Ivan Sekretarev)

Russia opposes use of force in Syria resolution

Foreign Minister Lavrov suggests Moscow will reconsider position if Assad doesn’t fulfill international agreements

By Albert Aji and Zeina Karam

September 17, 2013
5:35 pm

Smoke from Syrian fighting seen from across the border in Turkey (photo credit: AP/AP Video)

Car bomb hits Syria-Turkey border crossing

At least 12 people reported injured as explosion rocks rebel-controlled region

By AP and Times of Israel staff

September 14, 2013
10:43 pm

Brig. Gen. Itai Brun, head of the IDF Military Intelligence research and analysis division, at a Foreign Affairs and Defense committee hearing at the Knesset in 2012 (photo credit: Noam Moskowitz/Flash90)

Israel: We’ve been ‘absolutely certain’ for months Assad using nerve gas

Army’s top intelligence analyst, in rare interview, also says it is ‘extremely unlikely’ Israel could be taken by surprise as it was in the 1973 war

By Times of Israel staff and Mitch Ginsburg

September 10, 2013
8:01 pm

In this image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, smoke rises from buildings due to heavy artillery shelling in Barzeh, a district of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Shaam News Network via AP video)

Human Rights Watch: Assad regime behind chemical attack

International rights group says evidence ‘strongly suggests’ Syrian forces fired warheads containing nerve agents

By Barbara Surk

September 8, 2013
11:20 pm

A Syrian army soldier fires a heavy machine gun during clashes with rebels in the village of Maaloula, northeast of Damascus, Syria, on Saturday, September 7, 2013. (photo credit: AP/SANA)

Syrian rebels seize control of Christian village

Al-Qaeda-linked fighters overrun town that is home to two of the oldest surviving monasteries in Syria; hundreds of residents flee

By Jamal Halaby

September 4, 2013
4:29 pm

Exploding mortar shells fill the sky with black smoke in Damascus, Syria, in September 2013. (photo credit: AP/United media office of Arbeen)

Russian Embassy in Syria unharmed in nearby shelling

National sports hero dies in separate mortar attack in Damascus

By Times of Israel staff and AP

September 4, 2013
1:46 pm

Syrians pray during the funeral of a man killed by a shell in Arbeen town, a suburb of Damascus, Syria, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/United media office of Arbeen)

France: Syria action would ‘re-balance’ situation

French foreign minister says strike against Assad regime will deter it from further use of chemical weapons

By Lori Hinnant and RYAN LUCAS

September 3, 2013
10:59 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters at the Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, last December (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Ban: Any Syria strike must get Security Council OK

Secretary general says attack on sovereign nation may only be initiated as act of self-defense

By Peter James Spielmann

Topic: Damascus