UNITED NATIONS: The United States and Russia agreed a draft UN Security Council resolution on destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, breaking a prolonged deadlock over the...
UNITED NATIONS: The world’s major powers made important progress Wednesday on key points of a UN Security Council resolution on destroying Syria’s chemical weapons, envoys...
WASHINGTON: Defiant strongman Bashar Al-Assad promised he would surrender Syria’s chemical weapons but warned it would take at least a year to do so and...
PARIS: Sidelined from the US-Russia negotiations on chemical weapons, France is determined that demands for President Bashar al-Assad to be tried for war crimes do...
PARIS: Forces loyal to Bashar al-Assad carried out a “massive” chemical attack last month, a French intelligence report said, as the Syrian leader warned military...
PARIS: Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad warned Monday that Western military strikes would risk igniting a “regional war” in the “powder keg” of the Middle East,...
WASHINGTON: Taking a huge political gamble, US President Barack Obama on Saturday asked Congress to authorize military action against Syria, in a move which lifted...
WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama will shortly speak to Americans about the situation in Syria but will not announce imminent military action, a White House...
DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad vowed Thursday to defend his country from attack as the United States and Britain laid out their case for punitive...