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| President Obama has declared the US should take military action against Bashar Al-Assad's regime |
Mr Obama said: ‘We saw terrible images of the dead. All told 1,000 people were murdered including several hundred children. Young boys and girls were gassed to death by their own government. This was an assault on human dignity and a serious danger to security.’
Mr Obama assured the US public: ‘We will not put boots on the ground’ but said the US was ‘prepared to strike whenever we choose’.
He added, ‘I know well that we are weary of war. That is why we’re not contemplating putting our troops in the middle [of a civil war]. But we cannot and must not turn a blind eye to actions in Damascus.’
The Russian President insisted that if Washington had evidence Bashar Assad’s forces ‘used weapons of mass destruction’ it should be presented to the United Nations to Claims that the proof exists, but is classified and cannot be presented to anybody
Activists claim 1,300 killed in government rocket strike on residential area.
They hit just before dawn as families lay sleeping
They hit just before dawn as families lay sleeping
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| Syrian activists inspect the bodies of people they say were killed by nerve gas in Damascus |
Afric-tv24 - Zamfara...
Afric TV24
Genocide in Syria as 1,300 people including hundreds of women and children are wiped out in nerve gas attack say Syrian rebels as Hague warns use of chemical weapons would mark 'shocking escalation'
Afric TV24
Genocide in Syria as 1,300 people including hundreds of women and children are wiped out in nerve gas attack say Syrian rebels as Hague warns use of chemical weapons would mark 'shocking escalation'
Chemical warheads hit suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar
A UN team is in Syria to probe chemical weapons use by President Assad
Many countries have called for an immediate investigation
French Foreign Minister has called the attack an 'unprecedented atrocity'
Hague says they should be given access to site to verify claims
Claims come as refugees flood into Iraqi Kurdistan
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| The dead bodies of Syrian children after an alleged poisonous gas attack fired by regime forces |
The world has looked on in horror today as graphic images emerged showing the aftermath of a dawn poison gas attack in the suburbs of Damascus that wiped out 1,300 people as they lay sleeping in their beds.
Syrian activists accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of launching a nerve gas attack earlier today in what would be by far the worst reported use of poison gas in the two-year-old civil war.
Activists said rockets with chemical agents hit the Damascus suburbs of Ain Tarma, Zamalka and Jobar before dawn.
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| Activists say most of those killed were in their homes |
While these pictures of dead children are graphic, disturbing and undoubtedly the worst so far to have emerged from the conflict, MailOnline has made the decision to publish them in order to raise awareness of the plight of innocent people
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| Heartbreak - Relatives and activists inspect the bodies of the dead |
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| Victim: A Syrian girl receiving treatment at a makeshift hospital, in Arbeen, Damascus |
