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A vehicle of the UN Chemical Weapons Investigation Team was deliberately shot at multiple times by unidentified snipers in Syria, the UN said on Monday, adding that the team members were safe.
Snipers shot at a UN team set to inspect the site of a suspected deadly chemical weapons attack on Monday, further ratcheting up tensions.
Kerry: Syria chemical arms use 'obscenity'
Secretary of State John Kerry on Monday outlined the clearest justification yet for US military action in Syria, saying there was "undeniable" evidence of a large-scale chemical weapons attack, with intelligence strongly signaling that Bashar Assad's regime was responsible.
A team of UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria carried out their first day of investigation despite a sniper attack against their convoy.
Western accusations that Syrian government forces used chemical weapons are "an insult to common sense", President Bashar al-Assad said.
The Russian Foreign Ministry on Sunday urged all outside powers concerned about the Syria crisis to exercise restraint and give up the idea of unilateral armed intervention.
Three leaders of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the movement's former arch-foe Hosni Mubarak faced separate trials on Sunday on similar charges of involvement in the killing of protesters.
Syria agreed on Sunday to let the United Nations inspect the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, but a US official said such an offer was "too late to be credible".
The United Nations said on Sunday its experts would start their probe of an alleged Syrian chemical weapons site on Monday.
Syria will give UN inspectors access to the site of the recent alleged chemical attack in the country.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said Saturday that he doesn't mind meeting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should newly-resumed peace talks proceed.
The use of chemical weapons in Syria would constitute a "crime against humanity", UN chief Ban Ki-moon said on Friday, adding there was "no time to lose" in probing alleged attacks which the opposition says killed hundreds.
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