Melbourne, June 15 (ANI): Matt Damon, Robert De Niro, Whoopi Goldberg, Alec Baldwin and Naomi Watts are among the list of Hollywood stars lending their faces and voices to the two-minute video plea by the anti-nuclear campaign group Global Zero.

London, June 15 (ANI): Syria has strongly denied US claims that it used 'chemical weapons' in order to justify its move of providing 'military aid'.

Beijing, June 14 (Xinhua-ANI): NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said on Friday that any use of chemical weapons in Syria was "completely unacceptable" and a breach of international law.

Washington, June 14 (ANI): President Barack Obama has ordered his administration to provide arms to rebels fighting against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Beijing, June 4 (Xinhua-ANI): There are "reasonable grounds" to believe that chemical agents have been used as weapons in Syria, the report of the International Commission of Inquiry on Syria said Tuesday.

London, June 2 (ANI): Iraq's military intelligence authorities have arrested five men, linked to Al- Qaeda, for manufacturing chemical weapons and plotting to smuggle them to Europe and North America.

Raipur, May 28 (ANI): Union Home Secretary R.K. Singh today said anti-Naxal operations will be intensified with more security forces and modern weapons being provided by the Central Government to the affected regions.

Washington, May 28 (ANI): Chinese hackers compromised designs for many of America's most sensitive advanced weapons systems, according to a report.

Imphal, May 25 (ANI): All members of the United People's Party of Kangleipak (UPPK) insurgent group surrendered before authorities in Imphal on Friday.ddressing a press conference, Principal Secretary (Home) of the Manipur Government Suresh Babu said the rebels, numbering about 78, have handed over 38 sophisticated weapons, including AK Assault Rifles and a few thousand rounds of ammunition of different weapons at a programme.

Washington, May 23 (ANI): US military officials say high-tech weapons may be flying through the skies at five times the speed of sound by the middle of the next decade.

Johannesburg, May 19 (ANI): Syrian president Bashar Assad has said that claims of the West that the Syrian government used weapons of mass destruction against its countrymen are nothing but a pretext for waging war against Syria.

Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case for possessing illegal weapons, surrendered before a special TADA court here today.

London, May 16 (ANI): A resolution calling for a political transition in Syria and condemning the government's use of heavy weapons has been adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): The Indian film fraternity came out in full support of Bollywood star Sanjay Dutt who is set to go to jail after being sentenced for possessing illegal weapons during the 1993 serial Mumbai blasts.

Mumbai, May 16 (ANI): Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt, convicted in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts case for possessing illegal weapons, will surrender before a special TADA court here today.

London, May 11 (ANI): Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has told US media he has evidence that Syria used chemical weapons against opposition forces.

Washington, May 11 (ANI): The architect of Pakistan's nuclear weapons programme, Abdul Qadeer Khan has said Pyongyang could "no doubt" have perfected a nuclear weapon and long-range missile warheads.

Beijing, May 9 (Xinhua-ANI): The Lebanese Hezbollah's chief Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah warned Israel Thursday that his militia is ready to receive "game-changing weapons" from Syria.

Washington, May 9 (ANI): In another effort to prevent the manufacture and possession of weapons, a D.C. Council member Tommy Wells has proposed a legalization to ban plastic guns made with 3-D printers, following a Texas-based group's successful test fire of the first functional weapon.

Washington, May 8 (ANI): President Barack Obama has said he has yet to receive clear, corroborated evidence to back up intelligence reports that chemical weapons were used at a small-scale by the Syrian regime.

Washington, May 7 (ANI): A non-profit organization's founder, Kyle Coplen, wants to give New Yorkers in high-crime areas a 200 dollars shotgun and free weapons training, provided that they pass background checks.

London, May 7 (ANI): Israel sought to play down its attack on Syrian soldiers during an air strike on research facilities and weapons shipments that were bound for the Hezbollah in Lebanon.

Damascus, May 6 (Xinhua-ANI): A UN investigator has expressed her strong suspicions that the Syrian rebels had used nerve agent sarin in Syria's two-year deadly conflict, local media reported Monday, quoting a foreign media outlet.

Washington, May 3 (ANI): The U.S. Marine Corps have designed the future jet named F-35 Lighting II that will enable to attack a target in the enemy space with precision weapons at long ranges while in the air, not being detected in the process.

Washington, May 3 (ANI): A United Nations report has said that killer robots that can attack targets without any human input "should not have the power of life and death over human beings".