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Gulf states call on foreign forces to leave Syria

Gulf states called Wednesday for the withdrawal of "all foreign forces" from Syria, where Iran-backed Shiite militias from Iraq and Lebanon are supporting regime troops against Sunni-led rebels and foreign fighters. The Gulf Cooperation Council "strongly condemned the continued genocide that...

With US ties frayed, Saudi calls for Gulf union

With its decades-old US alliance strained over the Syria war and a nuclear deal with Iran, Saudi Arabia is calling on the Gulf monarchies to unite for their own self-defence. US Pentagon chief Chuck Hagel has assured Gulf states that the agreement struck between major powers and...

Hard to remove all chemical weapons from Syria by Dec 31-OPCW

It will be "difficult" to remove all of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons from the country by a Dec. 31 deadline, Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the global chemicals weapon watchdog OPCW said on Monday. But the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, which has...