British Defense Secretary Philip Hammond says his country would not participate in any military action on Syria after Prime Minister David Cameron’s ambitions to attack Syria along US faced deadlock in the parliament.
French President Francois Hollande is under increasing pressure to put the intervention to parliament.
A majority of Europeans oppose military intervention in Syria of any kind, a new poll shows, as Washington is considering to bomb the country.
The defiant British Prime Minister David Cameron has dismissed calls to resign over his defeat in pursuing the UK Parliament to endorse an attack on Syria.
The chief of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has denied any involvement of the alliance in a military action against Syria.
Germany’s foreign minister has ruled out his country’s participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.
Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov has said Moscow will oppose any resolution of the UN Security Council, which may be used for force actions against Syria.
More than 10 NATO countries have "most definitely" refused any forms of involvement in a US contemplated operation against Syria.
Any possibility of British involvement in a military campaign in Syria has been effectively ruled out after British lawmakers voted down the prospect in parliament to leave the US alone in a potential strike.
Russia "over the next few days" will be sending an anti-submarine ship and a missile cruiser to the Mediterranean as the West prepares for possible strikes against Syria, the Interfax news agency said on Thursday.