TASS - Major provocations with the alleged use of chemical weapons are planned in Syria with the participation of foreign specialists, Russian Defense Ministry Spokesman Major General Igor Konashenkov told reporters on Sunday. "According to the information that the Russian Reconciliation Center for Syria received today from the residents of the ...

Press TV - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says the United States is using the issue of chemical weapons as a pretext to carry out an attack against the Syrian army. Assad said in an interview with Russian television channel NTV on Sunday that such allegations were being used as an excuse for an intervention. "The story with chemical weapons ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Saturday Iran as the biggest victims of chemical weapons denounces use of such arms by anybody as well as any aggressive move under excuse of chemical attacks. In a joint press conference with his Russian and Turkish counterparts, he pointed out that countries supporting Saddam in his use ...

Foreign Policy | DOV ZAKHEIM:The ongoing debate among experts as to whether Washington has a strategy for dealing with the Syrian proxy war in the wake of missile strikes by U.S., British, and French forces on alleged Syrian chemical weapons facilities masks a far more urgent strategic need: a coherent approach to the increasingly volatile confrontation ...

MNA Irans Permanent Representative to OPCW Alireza Jahangiri, while slamming the US-led strikes on Syria, said Mon. that the OPCW is at stake and some delegations take hostage of this technical forum for their political intents. Delivering Irans statement at the 58th meeting of the OPCW Executive Council, Permanent Representative to OPCW Alireza ...

Press TV - Western powers claimtheir missile attacks struck at the heart of Syria'schemical weapons program but what they destroyed includeda scientific research institution producing cancer drugs. The Pentagon said threechemical weapons facilities, including a research anddevelopment center in Damascus' Barzeh district and twoinstallations ...

IRNA - A senior advisor to Iranian foreign minister Hossein Jaberi Ansari on Tuesday dismissed instrumental use of chemical weapons issue as unacceptable, saying that Iran favors a legal approach to deal with the alleged use of such arms. Talking to IRNA on the sidelines of a meeting with Putin's special envoy on Syrian affairs Alexander Lavrentiev ...

Press TV - Rivaling US and Russia drafted UNSC resolutions aimed at creating a new inquiry into chemical weapons attacks in Syria have both failed to garner votes at the council. During the Tuesday session, seven members voted against the Russian-drafted resolution and two abstained, shortly after the US-drafted resolution was vetoed by Russia....

Press TV - Iran has criticized US President Donald Trump's hypocritical approach on chemical weapons, saying his threats show that the United States is aiding extremists. "Trump's cheap shot against Iran, which has consistently condemned use of chemical weapons by anyone & is itself the victim of their use by [Iraq's former dictator] Saddam ...

MNA Bahram Ghasemi, the Spokesman of Iranian Foreign Ministry denied the claims against Syrian army and described the allegations of chemical weapon use as a conspiratorial move. The Islamic Republic of Iran, based on its principled policy, religious teachings, and ethical standards, as a victim of chemical weapons, condemns the use these kinds ...

Press TV - President Emmanuel Macron says if the use of chemical weapons against civilians is proven in Syria, "Francewill strike" while noting that no proof of such an action has been presented. "On chemical weapons, I set a red line and I reaffirm that red line...If we have proven evidence that chemical weapons proscribed in treaties are used,...

Sputnik - Iran has serious doubts about US reports that the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons in Khan Sheikhoun, Syria, Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. WASHINGTON (Sputnik) US officials have said that Syrian regime jets carried outa chemical attack ona ...

Tasnim A senior Iranian lawmaker said the US has used the recent chemical attack in Syrias rebel-held Idlib province as a pretext to launch missile strikes on the Arab country, while no chemical weapon is in possession of Damascus. The whole world knows that based on a deal with the United Nations, the Syrians have handed over all of their ...

SANA - Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign and Expatriates Minister Walid al-Moallem said the question which suggests itself is the timing of the unfair campaign launched against Syria as over the past few weeks, terrorists carried out a number of attacks in Jobar and the northern countryside of Hama. Addressing journalists in a press conference Thursday,...

Press TV- Russia says it will veto a UN Security Council resolution drafted by the US, Britain and France to impose sanctions on Syria over allegations of chemical weapons use. "I just explained our position very clearly to our partners. If it is tabled we will veto it," Russias Deputy UN Ambassador Vladimir Safronkov said on Friday following ...

France, Britain and the United States have agreed to seek a strong binding UN resolution on Syria with precise deadlines on removal of chemical weapons, the office of French President Francois Hollande says. France, Britain and the United States have agreed to seek a "strong binding" UN resolution on Syria if Damascus fails to hand over its chemical ...

French President Francois Hollande has accused the British Prime Minister David Cameron of committing a school boy error in losing the parliamentary vote on Syria. Hollande said Cameron has been left weakened after his plans to launch an offensive against the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was defeated in a Commons vote on Thursday,...

[caption id="attachment_92547" align="alignright" width="180"] A woman, affected by what activists say was a gas attack, breathes through an oxygen mask inside a field hospital in Kfar Zeita village in the central province of Hama April 12, 2014.[/caption] (Reuters) - Syrian opposition activists have posted photographs and video that they say shows ...

For three years, the Syrian civil war has continued unabated; and for three years, the so-called international community has achieved almost nothing other than to head off the wars escalation over the use of chemical weapons following President Barack Obamas ill-considered drawing of a red line against such use. Another try begins tomorrow in Geneva....

TEHRAN (FNA)- A new study by former UN weapons inspector Richard Lloyd, and MIT Professor Theodore A Postol, presented new details to the evidence about the war crime in Syria that almost led to a NATO led military aggression and a full scale regional war in the Middle East. On 7 October 2013, nsnbc international published a detailed analysis ...