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Topic: Syria

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December 11, 2012
2:56 pm

IDF Home Front Command soldiers take part in a 2011 defense drill simulating a chemical attack (Photo credit: Gili Yaari/ Flash 90)

IDF to begin giving its medics chemical weapons antidote

Amid growing concern over Syrian nerve gas, the army acquires tens of thousands of doses of diazepam

By Mitch Ginsburg

December 10, 2012
11:48 pm

Footage from a video that purportedly shows a bombing carried out by Jabhat al-Nusra in Damascus in August (photo credit: YouTube screen capture)

US to brand Syrian opposition group as terrorists

State Department calls Jabhat al-Nusra ‘little more than a front for al-Qaeda in Iraq’

December 10, 2012
8:43 pm

Israeli author David Grossman (photo credit: CC BY-SA torre.elena, Flickr)

Israeli writer among international authors calling on Assad to step down

From the web Today’s Zaman: David Grossman, Orhan Pamuk and Boualem Sansal pen letter telling Syrian president to leave before suffering same fate as Gaddafi

December 10, 2012
7:49 pm

German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90)

Germany expels Syrian diplomats

FM says the move is a ‘clear sign that we are reducing relations with the Assad government to an absolute minimum’

December 10, 2012
6:38 am

Michael Oren, Israel's ambassador to the United States (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash 90)

Chemical weapons in Hezbollah hands would be a ‘game changer,’ envoy to US warns

Friends of Syria conference set to kick off in Morocco without Clinton, who stays home with a stomach flu

By Yoel Goldman and AP

December 10, 2012
3:06 am

Syrian children wait in line for food distribution at a refugee camp near the Turkish border, in Azaz, Syria, on Sunday (photo credit: AP/Manu Brabo)

Syria conflict spills into Lebanon, leaving 4 dead

Nine officers of the judiciary defect to opposition

By Barbara Surk

December 9, 2012
10:28 pm

An IDF drill simulating an attack on Israel with chemical weapons, 2008 (photo credit: Gili Yaari/Flash 90)

Israel not concerned Assad will use chemical weapons against it, top minister says

Ya’alon says Israeli deterrent has kept weapons tucked away for decades; comments come as rebels reportedly close in on stockpiles

By Times of Israel staff

December 9, 2012
6:59 am

Alleged victims of a Syrian chemical attack seen in a screen capture from a YouTube video uploaded by Syrian rebels on Saturday, December 8, 2012

Syrian rebels claim new video shows victims of chemical attack

Israeli special forces reportedly operating on the ground in Syria, monitoring chemical weapons stockpile

By Times of Israel staff

December 8, 2012
10:50 pm

A rebel fighter with the Free Syrian Army takes aim during a battle with government troops in Aleppo, Syria, on Wednesday (photo credit: AP/Narciso Contreras)

Syrian rebels get new military leadership in bid to unite

Commanders hope joint body will cooperate with opposition leaders to rid the anti-Assad movement of the disorganization that has bedeviled it since its inception

By Ben Hubbard and Bassem Mroue

December 8, 2012
6:18 am

US may label al-Qaeda-inspired Syrian rebel group a Foreign Terrorist Organization

Al-Nusra Front, a Salafi organization pushing for an Islamic state in Syria, is notorious for suicide bombings against the Assad regime

By Michal Shmulovich

December 8, 2012
3:24 am

A chemical weapons stockpile (illustrative photo credit: CC BY jenspie3, Flickr)

Two scenarios in which Syria unleashes the world’s first use of chemical weapons in 30 years

Neither instance is likely — yet both involve civilian massacre and a major escalation of violence

By Kimberly Dozier and Robert Burns

December 7, 2012
5:41 pm

George Sabra, head of the main Syrian opposition bloc in exile, the Syrian National Council, on November 10, 2012 (photo credit: AP/Osama Faisal)

Stop Assad before he uses chemical weapons, Syria’s opposition leader implores international community

President ‘would not hesitate to commit such atrocities, warns George Sabra, urging soldiers to defect

By Ilan Ben Zion

December 7, 2012
4:48 pm

US Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, right, and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov during the Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Summit in Vladivostok, Russia, in September. (photo credit: Jim Watson/AP)

Putting differences aside, US, Russia to help negotiate end to Syrian civil war

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says transition must involve removal of Assad from power

December 7, 2012
4:34 pm

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to reporters during a visit to Zaatari Syrian refugee camp, in Mafraq, Jordan, near the Syrian border, on Friday December 7. (photo credit: AP/Mohammad Hannon)

Ban urges Syria against using chemical weapons

UN secretary-general calls for more aid to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees in Syria and Jordan