Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov meets Israeli Prime Minister Olmert in Tel Aviv
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (R) is greeted by Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert in Olmert's office in Tel Aviv on March 20, 2008. (UPI Photo/Tomer Appelbaum/POOL)
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Will the U.S. federal shutdown affect the Syrian civil war? China fears that it might; some Russians hope that it will.
Russia's foreign minister has implicated rebel Syrian groups in the use of sarin gas that killed 1,500 people in August, charging the toxin was "homemade."
Washington and Moscow have a common understanding on Syria, though Russia's foreign minister said he was concerned rebels may have illicit weapons.
Eleven Islamist rebel groups say they do not recognize the authority of the main Syrian opposition alliance, the National Coalition.
Syrian President Bashar Assad says his government would negotiate only with opposition forces that conduct "political activities rather than terrorism."
The Russian Embassy in Damascus was hit by a mortar shell Sunday, officials said, adding that no one was injured.
Syria has provided an outline of its chemical weapons stockpile, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Friday.
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told the U.N. Security Council Thursday "the time is short" to dismantle Syria's chemical weapons stockpile.
Syrian President Bashar Assad said Wednesday the chemical weapons attack in his country was "despicable" but it wasn't his forces that used them.
The Chinese government stands in support of the destruction of Syrian chemical weapons under U.N. supervision, a foreign ministry spokesman said Wednesday.
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