Russia and Syria embraced Secretary of State John Kerry’s suggestionMonday that the Syrian government could avert a U.S. attack by placing its chemical weapons under international control, upending the Obama administration’s efforts to sharpen its case for military action, theWashington Post reports. Meanwhile, with just two words, Kerry managed to illustrate the Obama administration’s overall ambivalence toward […]

Syrian government forces may have carried out a chemical weapons attack close to Damascus without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, Germany’s Bild am Sonntag paper reported on Sunday, citing German intelligence. Assad, who previously denied he was behind the attack, “suggested that there would be, among people that are aligned with him, some kind of […]

Russia says it has compiled a 100-page report detailing what it says is evidence that Syrian rebels, not forces loyal to President Bashar Assad, were behind a deadly sarin gas attack in an Aleppo suburb earlier this year, McClatchy reports. Though the report itself was not released, the statement drew a pointed comparison between what it said […]

The Obama administration isn’t just working to piece together an odd coalition of Republicans and Democrats to win authorization for strikes against Syria. It’s also dealing with escalating rhetoric with Russia. The Guardian reports Russian President Vladimir Putin is preparing for a showdown with President Obama at the next G20 summit slated for Thursday in […]

The Telegraph reports President Obama informed a small group of Senators that a 50-man cell of CIA-trained Syrian rebels was making its way into Syria. Meanwhile, in Washington, Secretary of State John Kerry made the Obama administration’s case for bombing Syria today to a Senate committee, where he refused to rule out the possibility of […]