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1 of 5.  United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon speaks to the media after briefing the Security Council on the U.N. chemical weapons report on the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian Arabic Republic at the United Nations in New York September 16, 2013. Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS  |  Mon Sep 16, 2013 7:12pm EDT (Reuters) - U.N. chemical investigators on Monday confirmed the use of sarin nerve agent in an August 21 poison gas attack outside the Syrian capital in a long-awaited report that the United States, Britain and  France  said proved government forces were responsible. "This is the most significant confirmed use of chemical weapons against civilians since Saddam Hussein used them in Halabja (Iraq) in 1988," U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said. "The international community has pledged to prevent any such horror from recurring, yet it has ha...

The five-day conflict between Israel and Gaza's Hamas rulers reached its deadliest point yet, as diplomats in Cairo and elsewhere tried to forestall an Israeli ground invasion that would lead to a far bloodier battle. Enlarge Image Reuters Palestinians gather around a destroyed house after an Israeli airstrike in Gaza City on Sunday. An Israeli envoy traveled to Cairo, where he met briefly with Egyptian security officials, as Hamas and other regional powers met for cease-fire talks whose outcome will help determine whether the thousands of troops Israel is massing along the Gazan border will be ordered to enter the coastal enclave. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting on Sunday that "the Israeli military is prepared to significantly expand the operation." Israel's military has already called up 40,000 reservists, in addition to its regular standing army of about 175,000, and said it could ...

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GAZA CITY: Three Palestinians were killed in two separate strikes in Gaza on Tuesday morning, after a night of relative quiet, the ambulance services spokesman said. "Two citizens were martyred in two raids in the Mughraqa area, in southern Gaza City, and a third was killed in Beit Lahiya," Adham Abu Selmiya said. The latest deaths pushed the Palestinian death toll to 112, with number of injuries over 920, and came after a night of relative calm -- the first to see no fatalities since the Israeli air campaign began nearly a week ago. The Israeli military said it attacked about 100 targets in the coastal strip during the night, using aircraft, warships and artillery. Palestinian emergency services said that the raids severely damaged the National Islamic Bank in Gaza City, set up by the strip's Hamas government, in an attack confirmed by the military. "A financial institution used by Hamas to fuel its terror activity was targeted in the northern Gaza S...