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UN experts leave Syria as US edges toward strike

 The U.N. experts investigating last week's alleged chemical weapons strike outside Damascus left Syria early Saturday and crossed into neighboring Lebanon, departing hours after President Barack Obama said he is weighing "limited and narrow" action against a Syrian regime that the...

France: UK vote does not change will to act on Syria

French President Francois Hollande said a British parliamentary vote against taking military action in  Syria  would not affect France's will to act to punish Bashar al-Assad's government for an apparent chemical weapons attack on civilians. Hollande told the daily Le Monde in...

Syria pays for Russian weapons to boost ties with Moscow

More than two years into Syria's civil war, President Bashar al-Assad is settling his bills for Russian arms orders through the Russian banking system to try to shore up ties with his most powerful ally, according to a Russian arms industry source. The payments, which have increased in...