Biological and Chemical Weapons

* US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal Syria could simply break apart By Arshad...

* No evidence of rebel use - PM Cameron's spokesman * Kerry says Assad cannot be part of transition government * Israel asks Russia not to sell Syria defence missiles By Andrew Roche LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it believed it...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - Britain said on Thursday it believed it was "very likely" that the Syrian government had used chemical weapons, but said it had "no evidence to date" that rebels fighting to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad had used such...

(Adds EU arms ban moves, Internet outage ends, edits) * US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says...

(Adds further Syrian opposition comment) * US, Russia bury differences to push for Syria peace talks * Not clear warring parties will readily agree to negotiate * Threat of conflict spilling over has alarmed world powers * Kerry says without deal...

Outrage. That's what we should feel over the Syrian government's slaughter of more than 70,000 of its own people and its use of chemical weapons. And outrage is what we should feel over the international community's total impotence. Despite nearly...

President Barack Obama said the use of chemical weapons in Syria would cross a "red line," be a "game changer" and possibly change his opinion about intervening to halt President Bashar Assad's slaughter of civilians in Syria. Reports from NATO, other...

Israeli airstrikes in Syria on Iranian weapons destined for Lebanon’s Hezbollah militia could be seen as heralding wider international involvement in Syria’s intractable civil war. Reports  of sarin gas attacks in Syria also conjure the...

LONDON, May 8 (Reuters) - British Prime Minister David Cameron said on Wednesday that there was "a growing body of limited but persuasive information" showing that the Syrian government had used and was continuing to use chemical weapons such as sarin...

Some Republican U.S. senators are urging President Obama to intervene more aggressively on the side of rebels in the Syrian civil war, especially in the wake of reports that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against his people....

WASHINGTON, April 26 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Friday that the deployment of chemical weapons by the Syrian government was a "game changer" while noting that intelligence assessments proving that such weapons had been used were still...

WASHINGTON, May 7 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Tuesday defended his deliberate approach to determining whether Syria used chemical weapons and pointed to the fates of Osama bin Laden and Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi as evidence that "we...