Middle East

The United Nations Security Council has received the first report from chemical weapons inspectors inside Syria. The report details the country's cooperation with the initial effort to destroy its capacity to manufacture the weapons but despite progress on that front, the humanitarian crisis there shows no sign of improvement.

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Saudi Arabia refused to accept the membership of the United Nations Security Council it won yesterday, citing issues including Syria’s civil war that it said show the world body is incapable of resolving conflicts.

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Five countries have won two-year terms on the U.N. Security Council, including two potentially controversial countries. Chad has faced U.N. scrutiny for its use of child soldiers among the ranks of its military, while Saudi Arabia regularly faces international criticism for the state of human rights, and especially women’s rights, in the oil-rich kingdom.

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Worldpress.org Senior Editor Joshua Pringle spoke to Richard Gowan, Associate director at CIC, about the complexity of addressing the Syrian crisis.

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United Nations: The UN Security Council has demanded immediate and “unhindered” access to hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped in the Syrian conflict.

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