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Syria and the wider issue of international diplomacy

As Russia and the United States, and their respective allies, lock horns at the G20 and in the UN Security Council and perhaps eventually find a face-saving way out of their self-inflicted paralysis, the dynamic of the Syrian civil war has long taken a direction that will see neither of them as a winner.

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Hague: US, UK, and France prepared to hold Assad to account if Syria fails to hand over chemical weapons

Foreign Secretary Foreign Secretary says the UK, US and France are united in supporting a UN resolution to enshrine Syria’s responsibility to hand over chemical weapons.

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Syria: US and Russia strike a deal

A week that started with a march toward war, that melted in the heat of U.S. politics, that morphed into high-level diplomacy, ended with a U.S.-Russian deal to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons.

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Syria: How easy will it be for Assad to hand over his chemical weapons arsenal?

Bashar al-Assad has agreed to a Russian proposal to hand over his stockpile of chemical weapons.The move comes on the same day that President Barack Obama will give an address on the potential for U.S. involvement in Syria. Syria Deeply asked Aram Nerguizian, a senior fellow with the Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, to weigh in on the potential success of a weapons-gathering mission.

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US: Obama postpones Syria vote, but chemical disarmament plan hits roadblock

US President Barack Obama has postponed Congress’ vote on military action in Syria to pursue diplomacy to remove Bashar al-Assad’s arsenal of chemical weapons, but issues over how to enforce this plan remain.

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