Secretary of State John Kerry will speak on Syria at 12:30 ET. Check out the live stream here.
The Obama administration is preparing to release a report supporting the claim that the Assad regime used chemical weapons on its citizens-a move that President Obama called his "red line" for intervention in Syria.
Some news outlets claim the release of such declassified evidence is the next step in the United States' potential involvement in Damascus, despite an NBC poll that shows a staggering majority of Americans-almost 8 in 10-want President Obama to get the OK from members of Congress before performing a strike on the Middle Eastern country.
Half of Americans object to any military action in Syria, according to the same poll.
Meanwhile, Britain-one of America's key military allies-rejected a proposal for a strike on Syria.
England's Prime Minister David Cameron said that he won't move forward without Parliament's support, even though he'd stressed the need for military action days before.
"I strongly believe in the need for a tough response in the use of chemical weapons, but I also believe in respecting the will of this House of Commons," NBC reported Cameron as saying.
But according to a former CIA director, President Obama would have no qualms attacking the Syrian regime either alone or with France, another main military ally.
"I can't conceive he would back down from a very serious course of action," Gen. Michael Hayden told CNN.
Since Chemical Weapons Inspectors landed in Syria last week, speculation on the use of chemical weaponry by Assad's forces has moved into near-certainty.
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson told CNN's Piers Morgan that there was "almost incontrovertible proof" that the Regime was behind those chemical attacks.
On Friday, BBC correspondent Ian Pannell tweeted a photo of a teen who was severly burned after an incendiary bomb was dropped on a school playground in Aleppo.
15 yr old Ahmed, victim of incendiary bomb attack on school in #Syria pic.twitter.com/u9nKgEH3xy
— Ian Pannell (@BBCiPannell) August 29, 2013
