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Syria calls for U.N. sanctions on Israel over air strikes

Syria asked the United Nations Security Council on Monday to impose sanctions on neighboring Israel, a day after accusing the Jewish state of bombing areas near Damascus international airport and in the town of Dimas, near the border with Lebanon.

Nazi hunter says Adolf Eichmann’s top aide presumed dead in Syria

One of the world\’s most wanted war criminals, the reputed top lieutenant of Nazi mastermind Adolf Eichmann, is presumed to have died at least four years ago in Syria, where he lived under government protection, a leading Nazi hunter said on Monday.

Syria’s chemical weapons: decades to build, years to destroy

If Saddam Hussein\’s Iraq is anything to go by, destroying Syria\’s massive chemical weapons arsenal will mean checking dozens of far-flung sites in a war zone while the government employs delaying tactics to hide the banned munitions, an expert involved in past U.N. disarmament missions said.

Building case for lawmakers, U.S. says sarin gas used in Syria attack

Secretary of State John Kerry said on Sunday tests showed that sarin nerve gas was used in a deadly August 21 chemical attack near Damascus as he sought to build the case to convince skeptical lawmakers to authorize a military strike against the Syrian government.

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