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

September 3, 2013
8:42 pm

French President Francois Hollande left, and German President Joachim Gauckand meet at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013 (photo credit: AP/Jacques Brinon, Pool)

French leader to await US Congress vote on Syria

Francois Hollande’s remarks come a day after government released intel report assessing Assad was behind chemical attack

By Sylvie Corbet

September 3, 2013
1:35 am

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu draws a red line for Iran's nuclear program during his address to the UN General Assembly in September 2012. (photo credit: AP/Seth Wenig)

With eye on Iran, Israelis seek US strike in Syria

Behind an official wall of silence, politicians are wary that inaction may strengthen Tehran’s nuclear aspirations

By Josef Federman

September 2, 2013
10:50 pm

French Defense Minister Jean-Yves Le Driant (left), French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius (center), and French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault (right), pose prior to a meeting at Matignon in Paris, on Monday, September 2, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Michel Euler)

French intel: Syrian regime launched chemical attack

Government publishes findings, which assert that at least 281 deaths can be attributed to August 21 attack in Damascus outskirts

By AP

September 2, 2013
10:38 pm

People take part in a protest calling for no military attack on Syria from the US, Britain or France, outside the Houses of Parliament, in London, Thursday, August 29, 2013. (photo credit: AP/Matt Dunham)

Poll: Brits agree with Parliament decision against Syria strike

BBC finds 71% of UK public reject military action against Assad, even as evidence of his chemical weapons use grows

By Adiv Sterman

September 1, 2013
10:26 am

President Barack Obama delivers remarks about the crisis in Syria in the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (photo credit: AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Obama’s credibility on line in reversal

Stunning change-of-heart raises questions about the president’s decisiveness and could embolden leaders in Syria, Iran, North Korea

By Julie Pace

September 1, 2013
9:13 am

President Barack Obama, August 2013 (photo credit: White House, Flickr)

Iraq war casts pall on Obama’s Syria strike plan

Ten years down the line, the administration and public are still haunted by memory of Bush’s false WMD claim against Saddam

By Jim Kuhnhenn

August 31, 2013
10:17 pm

A vehicle with UN experts on board in a convoy following their investigation in Syria after they crossed into Lebanon on their way to Beirut international airport, in Beirut, Lebanon, Saturday, Aug. 31, 2013. (Photo credit: AP/Hussein Malla)

UN: Possible timing of Syria attack ‘grotesque’

Spokesman Martin Nesirky says about 1,000 international staff-persons remain in the country