The US will drop its insistence that a UN resolution on Syria must be backed by military force, officials say, after strong objections from Russia. US and Russian diplomats say the two sides are edging closer to a deal on Syria's chemical arsenal, as talks in Geneva entered a third day.
They are thrashing out the technical details of the disarmament process. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says a UN report will "overwhelmingly" confirm that poison gas was used last month. He made no comment on who was to blame for the 21 August attack in eastern Damascus.
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