Highlights
A collection of news and information related to Biological and Chemical Weapons published by this site and its partners.
Displaying items 1-12 of 336
» View latimes.com items only
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11-28
•
Next >
-
Obama says U.S. won't act alone on chemical weapons in Syria
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.WASHINGTON--President Obama on Thursday ruled out any unilateral U.S action in response to the alleged Syrian use of chemical weapons, further reducing the chance of any forceful response to the crossing of what Obama had described as a “red line.&...Tags: West Bank, Palestinian National Authority, U.S. Military, Government, Wars and Interventions
-
Obama says U.S. won't act alone on Syria
WASHINGTON — President Obama on Thursday ruled out unilateral U.S. military action in Syria even if proof emerges that Syrian forces have used lethal chemical weapons. "This is … an international problem," Obama said at a White House news...
Tags: Iran, U.S. Military, Bashar Assad, Government, Wars and Interventions
-
Options for action in Syria
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...
Tags: Iran, Israel, Armed Forces, Bashar Assad, Personal Weapon Control
-
Israeli attacks in Syria aimed at Hezbollah, not as aid to rebels
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...
Tags: Iran, Armed Conflicts, Palestine, Religion and Belief, Moscow (Russia)
-
At least three allegations of chemical use in Syria
BEIRUT — Last week’s allegations from top U.S. officials that Syrian forces probably deployed chemical weapons against rebels come amid an array of disputed reports about purported chemical attacks in Syria. There have been at least three...
Tags: Politics, U.S. Department of State, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), United Nations, National Government
-
U.S. doubts on Syria lie in how sarin exposure occurred
WASHINGTON — U.S. intelligence agencies unanimously agree that Syrians have been exposed to deadly sarin gas in recent weeks, but they are divided over how certain they can be that the Syrian regime is to blame, U.S. and congressional officials said...
Tags: United Kingdom, Manufacturing and Engineering, Defense, Ban Ki-moon, United Nations
-
U.N.'s Carla del Ponte says Syrian rebels may have used sarin
This post has been updated. See the note below for details.BEIRUT — A leading member of a United Nations investigatory commission says there are “strong concrete suspicions but not yet incontrovertible proof” that Syrian rebels have used the nerve agent sarin. Carla del Ponte, a former...Tags: White House, BBC, Jay Carney, Syrian Civil War (2011 - present ), United Nations
-
Syria blames Israel for predawn blasts near Damascus
BEIRUT — Huge explosions were reported in Damascus early Sunday, just two days after a reported Israeli airstrike in Syria targeting surface-to-air missiles possibly destined for neighboring Lebanon and the militant group Hezbollah. Syrian state...
Tags: Iran, Emergency Incidents, Defense, Science, Bashar Assad
-
Amid reports of airstrike, Israel says it's keeping an eye on Syria
JERUSALEM -- Amid reports that Israeli warplanes struck a weapons cache in Syria this week, a senior Israel defense ministry official said Saturday his nation was closely monitoring unrest in its neighbor but remained confident that Syria’s chemical...Tags: Armed Conflicts, Lebanon, Politics, National Government, Israel
-
Obama pledges to renew efforts to close Guantanamo prison
WASHINGTON – President Obama said Tuesday he is renewing efforts to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and will search for members of Congress to help him get it done. “I’m going to go back at this,” Obama...
Tags: Mark Twain, Prisons, Bashar Assad, Government, Politics
-
The hawks are squawking about Obama's rubbery red line in Syria
The hawks are squawking. Congressional conservatives and the right-wing media are blasting President Obama for going soft on the Syrians. The president insists that there is a "game-changing" red line the Syrian government will have crossed if it is...
Tags: Religion and Belief, Saxby Chambliss, Chuck Hagel, United Nations, George W. Bush
-
U.S. considers sending arms to Syria rebels
WASHINGTON — The White House is considering providing weapons to the Syrian rebels, officials said Tuesday, but no decision is imminent and President Obama seemed to soften his public threats to the Syrian government over its alleged use of chemical...
Tags: Iran, Emergency Incidents, Religion and Belief, U.S. Department of Defense, United Nations
May 16, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 16, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 9, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 8, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 28, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 26, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 6, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 4, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
May 1, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times Exclusive
Apr 30, 2013
|Story| Los Angeles Times
Original site for Biological and Chemical Weapons topic gallery.
