Against its people and to seeking new ways to deliver them it follows a suspected chlorine gas attack in rebel held territory on the outskirts of damascus say roselyn jordan has more from the state department. The civil war in syria has not been at the top of the news agenda here in washington for at least several weeks but on thursday the trumpet ministration made known a couple of serious concerns about the conduct of the war on the part of the government of president Bashar Al Assad first reporters were told in a briefing off camera that they do believe that the Syrian Government still has a chemical weapons arsenal and did not come clean about the extent of their chemical weapons holdings back during the Obama Administration when they gave up their weapons in order to not face any sort of u. S. Military action for targeting people with chemical weapons during the Syrian Civil War then here at the state Department New allegations about the use of a weapon that technically isnt a wea
His country is willing to talk to the u. S. Church leaders protesting against tax pound shop the site where christ is said to have been buried in occupied East Jerusalem. And the former italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is back in the limelight as his party bids for power in next weekends elections. Theyre here long welcome to the program at least twenty seven people have been killed in Syria Russian Air strikes and he said hello to on sunday the new a or a grand offensive has taken place despite the u. N. Security council adopting a resolution demanding a cease fire a warning this report from osama bin just a contains some distressing images look. This is what the United Nations the green house to stop. The. Hours into the u. N. Security council has thirty day cease fire declaration forms kept dropping on eastern. Medical dozen of the dead and indeed from more than a hundred years strikes barrel bombs and artillery bombardments all of which was supposed to and continues in the
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