"Syria crisis: UK and US move closer to intervention" is an article published by the British daily Guardian today.
"Britain and the US are inching towards a military attack against the regime of Bashar al-Assad after William Hague said all other options have failed over the past year. As the Syrian president said the US would face failure if it intervened in his country, the UK foreign secretary said Britain and its allies could intervene without the authority of the UN," the article reads.
"Hague, who insisted Britain shared a common position with the US and France, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We have tried those other methods, the diplomatic methods, and we will continue to try those. But they have failed so far," the article quotes the Foreign Secretary.
"Russia and China are likely to veto any UN security council resolution authorising military action, but Hague said such a move could be legal under international law even without UN approval," the author writes.
Hague dismissed Assad's claims that his regime was not responsible for the chemicals weapons attack. "The Assad regime did this. The use of chemical weapons in the 21st century, on a large scale like this, cannot go unaddressed, cannot be ignored. Our position is the same as France and the US," the article quotes him as saying.
