ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, April 25, 2013 – The U.S. intelligence community assesses with varying degrees of confidence that the Syrian regime has used chemical weapons — specifically the nerve-agent sarin — on a small scale in that violence-torn nation, Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said here tonight.
It was reported by a U.S. Official yesterday that the elder of the two brothers suspected of the Boston Marathon bombings, Tamerlan Tsarnaev, was on the counter-terrorism watch-list.
The small community of Manchester, Illinois, about 50 miles outside of Springfield, was the scene of deadly violence early this morning as a gunman killed five people on the first floor of an apartment complex there.
Bangladesh was the scene of another disaster involving the garment industry there on Wednesday as an eight-story commercial building collapsed killing close to 90 people.