Russian President Vladimir Putin says he’s shared Russian intelligence data on ISIS financing with his G20 colleagues: the terrorists appear to be financed from 40 countries, including some G20 member states.
Saudi King Salman has booked an entire luxury hotel at the cost of $18 million in southern Turkey for his G20 Summit stay.
Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad has ruled out any connection between Damascus’s decision to destroy its chemical weapons arsenal and the US threat of war.
The pope of the Roman Catholic Church has described war as defeat for humanity, urging world leaders to pull humanity out of a "spiral of sorrow and death."
The European Union has echoed Washington’s stance on Damascus, accusing the Syrian army of being behind a chemical weapons attack on a number of Damascus suburbs last month.
A Christian charity working in Syria says church leaders appeal for help, not more war, as US mulls attacking the already war-torn country.
US President Barack Obama, disappointed by allies, has repeated allegations that the Syrian government has used chemical weapons and called for acting against Damascus.
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated that Turkey would take part in any international coalition against Syria, but has stopped short of saying whether that would include military action.
Russian President Vladimir Putin has called on the United States to present its evidence of chemical weapons use in Syria to the UN Security Council.