U.S. intelligence assessments show that Iran is still at least a year away from building a nuclear weapons, U.S. President Barack Obama said Oct. 5, AP reported.
The United States will carry out military strikes against Syria if its regime fails to neutralize its chemical weapons in accordance with a Russian initiative, Israeli President Shimon Peres said, AFP reported Sept. 11.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Sept. 10 that his government had agreed to the Russian proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent destruction, AP reported.
France will float a resolution to the U.N. Security Council that would put the Syrian regime's chemical weapons under international control so that they could be destroyed, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Sept. 10, BBC reported.
Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Sept. 9 that the Syrian regime welcomes Russia's plan to place its chemical weapons under the supervision of the international community, Syrian TV reported.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki Moon said Sept. 9 that he welcomed a Russian proposal for the Syrian regime to transfer its chemical weapons to the international community for destruction, AFP reported.
Contrary to their portrayal in the media, weapons of mass destruction are actually quite difficult to manufacture and successfully deploy.
While jihadist groups such as al Qaeda have long plotted ways to use such weapons in strategic strikes, they are expensive, hard to use and
rarely effective in real-world applications.
