TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russia has no evidence of whether a chemical weapons attack has taken place in Syria or who is responsible, Russian President Vladimir Putin told British Prime Minister David Cameron in a telephone call, according to Camerons official website. The two officials had an urgent phone call on Monday afternoon regarding the Syrian ...

The UN team of chemical weapons inspectors is due to begin a second day of investigation into an alleged attack near the Syrian capital Damascus. The 20-member UN team led by Swedish expert Aake Sellstroem will begin their second day of probe on Tuesday. On Monday, snipers fired multiple shots at the team of inspectors as they tried to visit an ...

Press TV has interviewed Stephen Lendman, author and radio host in Washington, about Israel and France pushing for a US-led offensive against Syria over an unproven claim by militants that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons. The following is a transcription of the interview. Press TV:Its quite interesting when we look at some of the ...

Egypt will not attend an upcoming meeting on Syria because it is opposed to foreign military intervention, the official spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. Military heads from the United States, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Turkey, Britain, France, Germany, Italy and Canada are expected to meet in Amman in the next few days, reported ...

[caption id="attachment_40499" align="alignright" width="210"] Syrian troopers are seen on a tank in the town of Qusayr, June 5, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- The Chinese Foreign Ministry on Monday called for an independent and fair probe into the alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria. The foreign ministry said Beijing supports conducting ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif in a meeting with UN Undersecretary General Jeffrey D. Feltman underlined the necessity for finding a political solution to the Syrian crisis, and underlined Tehran's discontent with the use of chemical weapons in Syria. During the meeting in Tehran on Monday, Zarif stressed that only ...

Diplomatic pressure on Syria has failed and the UK is considering its response to a suspected chemical attack, Foreign Secretary William Hague says. He told the BBC it would be possible for the UK and its allies to respond to the incident without the unanimous backing of the United Nations. He said the UN Security Council, which is split over Syria,...

TEHRAN (FNA)- France's foreign minister said on Monday no decision had been made yet on whether to take military action in response to the alleged poison gas attack in Syria. "The decision has not been taken," Laurent Fabius told Europe 1 radio. "There has to be a proportional reaction ... and that will be decided in the coming days. "All options ...

(Reuters) - U.N. inspectors left central Damascus on Monday to investigate sites of an alleged chemical weapons strike on the outskirts of the Syrian capital, a Reuters witness said, after calls from Western powers for military action to punish what may be the world's worst chemical attack in 25 years. Syriaagreed on Sunday to allow the inspectors ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian lawmaker said some decision-making centers in the US are trying to convince Obama to embark on militarily intervention in Syria, but at the same time warned that the move could further tie US hands in dealing with problems it faces in the Middle East. Our main advice is that such interferences will have no fruit ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Two top lawmakers are calling for an immediate U.S. military response to the Syria's suspected chemical weapons attack that killed at least a hundred civilians last week. Republican Sen. Bob Corker is calling for the U.S. to respond in a "surgical and proportional way, something that gets their attention." The Tennessee lawmaker ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Ambassador to Lebanon Alexander Zasypkin said the current developments in Syria prove that the solution to the crisis in that country can only be attained through dialogue. In an interview with Lebanese al-Diyar newspaper, Zasypkin added that the preparatory meeting for the conference which will be held on August 28th in ...

The Syrian government has given green light to the UN team of chemical weapons inspectors to investigate the site of the recent alleged chemical attack in the country. By Press TV   The Iran Project is not responsible for the content of quoted articles.

As competing claims on the use of chemical weapons in Syria continue to make the worlds headlines, with opposing camps accusing one another of war crimes - under one of the protocols of the Geneva Convention the use of poisonous gas, chemical agents, asphyxiating gases and all other bacteriological weapons are strictly prohibited and classified under ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The American public shows no willingness to get involved in another costly conflict in the Middle East. As Obamas advisers presented options for responding to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, the US president and British PM agreed on Saturday that use of chemical weapons would merit a serious response. However, the American ...

[caption id="attachment_40499" align="alignright" width="210"] Syrian troopers are seen on a tank in the town of Qusayr, June 5, 2013.[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- The US and its western allies are seeking to start an all-out war on Syria under the pretext of the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government, a senior Iranian lawmaker said. Member ...

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) -- The Syrian government accused rebels of using chemical weapons Saturday and warned the United States not to launch any military action against Damascus over an alleged chemical attack last week, saying such a move would set the Middle East ablaze. The accusations by the regime of President Bashar Assad against opposition forces ...

[caption id="attachment_45622" align="alignright" width="210"] Irans Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif[/caption] Iran's foreign minister says the Syrian government will allow UN inspectors to visit areas reportedly affected by chemical weapons, according to Iranian press reports. Syrian opposition groups have accused government forces of killing ...

Syrian Foreign Minister Walid Muallem says Damascus will provide the UN team with access to the site of the recent alleged chemical attack in the country. In a telephone conversation with his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, on Saturday, Muallem added that his respective country has cooperated with the UN team of chemical experts present ...

France said on Thursday that the international community would need to respond with force if allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out a mass chemical attack on civilians proved to be true. "There would have to be reaction with force in Syria from the international community, but there is no question of sending troops on the ground,...