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Clearly a major defeat for the Obama Administration, Britain has opted out of getting involved in Syria, and now President Barak Obama is prepared for possibly staging a U.S. military attack on Syria without a strong ally.

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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said his country will press forward with efforts to ward off military action by the U.S. and its allies against the Tehran-backed regime of Syrian President Bashar Assad, Iranian state TV reported on Thursday.

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The Bay State's congressional delegation is urging President Obama to proceed with caution in Syria.

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There has been a lot of discussion n the last couple of days about a possible United States strike against Syria in the very near future.

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The White House is making a legal argument for undertaking a military response to the use of chemical weapons against civilians in Syria, but says any action taken against the Syrian regime is not intended to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad.

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U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel says U.S. forces are now ready to act on any order by President Barack Obama to strike Syria.

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A senior administration official says there is "very little doubt" that a chemical weapon was used by the Syrian regime against civilians in an incident that killed at least a hundred people last week

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Britain's foreign secretary says the country will ask the United Nations Security Council to discuss claims of a chemical weapons attack near the Syrian capital, Damascus.

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The White House says it has conclusive evidence that Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime has used chemical weapons against opposition forces seeking to overthrow the government. That crosses what President Barack Obama has called a ``red line'' that would trigger greater American involvement in the crisis

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Dozens of people in Syria are dead on this Thursday morning, the victims of a deadly car bomb attack.

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