Assad refuses positioning poison gas that killed hundreds of civilians last month.

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The opposition Syria, which said a forensic scientist had defected to the rebel side bringing evidence of the Assad forces’ use of sarin gas in March, has appealed to Western allies to send them weapons and use their air power to end a war that has killed more than 100,000 and made millions homeless.

COMFORTABLE GOING FORWARD

Obama has said he is “comfortable going forward without the approval of a United Nations Security Council that so far has been completely paralyzed and unwilling to hold Assad accountable.

The presence in rebel ranks of Islamist militants, some of them close to al Qaeda, has made Western leaders wary, while at the same time the undoubted – and apparently accelerating – human cost of the conflict has brought pressure to intervene.

Russia, backed by China, has used its veto power in the U.N. Security Council three times to block resolutions condemning Assad’s government and threatening it with sanctions. Assad, like Russia, blames the rebels for the August 21 gas attack.

Obama was due to leave Washington on Tuesday for a G20 meeting in Russia. France said foreign ministers of some of the G20 member states will convene on the sidelines of the meeting to discuss Syria.

The conflict has divided the Middle East on sectarian lines, with Shi’ite Iran backing Assad and Washington’s SunniArabGulf allies supporting the mainly Sunni rebels. It has also revived Cold War-style tensions between the Western powers and Moscow.

In an interview in Le Figaro, Assad told the French newspaper: “Everybody will lose control of the situation when the powder keg blows. There is a risk of a regional war.”

The U.N. High Commission for Refugees said there had been a near tenfold increase over the past 12 months in the rate of refugees crossing Syria’s borders into Turkey, Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon – to a daily average of nearly 5,000 men, women and children.

This has pushed the total number of Syrians living abroad to more than 2 million.

That represents some 10 percent of Syria’s population, the UNHCR said. With a further 4.25 million estimated to have been displaced but still resident inside the country, close to one third of all Syrians are living away from their original homes.

Comparing the figures to the peak of Afghanistan’s refugee crisis two decades ago, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, said: “Syria has become the great tragedy of this century – a disgraceful humanitarian calamity with suffering and displacement unparalleled in recent history.

“The risks for global peace and security that the present Syria crisis represents, I’m sure, are not smaller than what we have witnessed in any other crisis that we have had since the Vietnam war,” said Guterres, a former Portuguese prime minister.

4 COMMENTS

  1. America must starts its operation without ay delay.As it is the urgent need of the time to Syria from a very long timed dictatorship millions of millions innocent Syrians from this cruel regime. Though many innocent people will be killed,but it is better to provide safety to future generation.Although it was the job of OIC and some leading Muslim countries,yet it is the only work to be done by America.

    • Muslims and Muslim countries only like to talk BIG,they never want to do the work,they like to work behind the scenes.Unfortunately,Muslims are the cause of every uproar around the world,look around,Syria,Palestine,Afghanistan,Pakistan,Yemen,Somalia,Iraq and the list goes on and on.Sure no one wants to admit it,and who is behind all this,the Saudis,Qatar,Emirates to name a few bad guys with money.ow they are willing to pay for everything as long as Americans do all the dirty work.Yet Americans get all the blame all the while these so called Muslim countries come out smelling like roses.No one around the Muslim world has once,not once has held any of these trouble makers accountable,fact is,Americans are the only ones who are always willing to take on the bad guys,sure its in their best interest as well.

  2. Yes no color,but to save humanitarian and innocent people,operation is a must.It must be started sooner.

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