Death Toll in Pakistan's Tuesday Quake Continues to Rise
The death toll continues to rise in the devastating Pakistan earthquake that occurred on Tuesday in the Baluchistan region in the southwestern portion of that country.
Experts Predict Syria Fighting May Escalate
LONDON — While the world’s diplomats work in New York to hammer out an agreement on the disposal of Syria’s chemical weapons, and United Nations investigators head back into Syria, experts say fighting in the more than two-year-long civil war may well become more intense.
Syria Submits Partial Chemical Weapons List
MOSCOW — For two years, Russia gave increasingly crucial military and diplomatic support to Syria’s beleaguered President Bashar al-Assad as the Syrian civil war deepened.
United Nations Syrian Chemical Weapons Report Released, Sarin Gas Used
Although it did not assign blame, or an origin of the attack, United Nations inspection team confirmed that sarin gas was the chemical used in the August 21 attack on the outskirts of Damascusit that killed approximately 1400 people.