Chemical weapons are a “red line” in the conflict in Syria, but with a UN investigator claiming they were used by rebels and then her UN Inquiry making clear there is no such “conclusive findings”, has the line been crossed?
Women and children are amongst the more than a hundred reportedly executed in massacres in the village of Bayda and Ras al-Nabaa quarter of Banias in the north-west of the country.
Israel has confirmed that they launched an airstrike targeting a shipments of advanced missiles allegedly bound for militants from Hezbollah.
If the Assad regime has used chemical weapons on the Syrian people it would be a serious breach of the Geneva Protocol, but US policy on such weapons has been so inconsistent and politicised that the United States is in no position to take leadership in response.
The alliance of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Israel, Jordan and the western powers has in its sights the taking out of Syria as a key ally of Iran, and with it Hezbollah in Lebanon