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France and the UK would consider arming the Syrian opposition even if it meant breaking an EU ban, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius has said. BBC

Syria conflict: EU to discuss arms ban as anniversary marked BBC

ROBERT FISK www.independent.co.uk

Robert Fisk: The cost of war must be measured by human tragedy, not artefacts
What does heritage matter in the face of such tragic desolation?

Syrians trade Khan al-Assal chemical weapons claims BBC

ROBERT FISK www.independent.co.uk

Robert Fisk: Inside Damascus - memoirs reveal the Hafez approach
Hitherto unknown information has emerged from the confidential archives of the Syrian presidency and foreign ministry

Syria clashes destroy ancient Aleppo minaret BBC

Chemical weapons: inspection time in Syria
If 'UN route' is to vindicate itself, there must be rapid agreement and an inspection team must go into Syria within days www.guardian.co.uk

DOMINIC LAWSON www.independent.co.uk

Obama is right to prevaricate rather than intervene in Syria's civil war
Even measures like a no-fly zone or humanitarian safe area would be a major military operation - and might well have to be backed up with full blown war

ROBERT FISK www.independent.co.uk

Robert Fisk: Assad sends his feared militia squads to the battlefront
Syria’s ‘ghost’ soldiers have been accused of torturing and killing civilians. Soon they will be controlling newly captured towns, reports our Middle East correspondent

Israeli warplanes 'launch air strike in Syria' BBC

Israeli strikes on Syria 'co-ordinated with terrorists' BBC

ROBERT FISK www.independent.co.uk

Robert Fisk: The truth is that after Israel’s air strikes, we are involved
If the EU and US say nothing about these attacks, approval is granted

UN's Del Ponte says evidence Syria rebels 'used sarin'

Carla Del Ponte: "I was a little bit stupefied by the first indication of the use of nerve gas by the opposition"

Testimony from victims of the conflict in Syria suggests rebels have used the nerve agent, sarin, a leading member of a UN commission of inquiry has said BBC

Israeli bombing of Syria and moral relativism
No universally applied principle justifies the Israeli attack on Damascus. Only self-flattering tribalism does that www.guardian.co.uk