The European Union has praised a United Nations resolution aimed at destroying Syria's chemical arms cache for "setting a standard" against perpetrators of poison gas attacks.   The resolution represented "a major step towards a sustainable and unified...

Experts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog will begin inspecting Syria's stockpile of toxic munitions by Tuesday, according to an agreement passed in The Hague on Friday. The agreement enables the U.N. Security Council to vote later on Friday on a draft resolution on eradicating...

  Zaman Alwasl has obtained confidential information about the nominated  dissent list to attend Geneva 2 as a negotiating team who will represent the National Coalition for Syrian opposition and revolutionary forces and other opposition factions; which has been prepared in...

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution on Friday that demands the eradication of Syria's chemical weapons but does not threaten automatic punitive action against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government if it does not comply. The unanimous vote by the 15-member Security...