Germany exported 111 tonnes of chemicals to Syria between 2002 and 2006 that could be used in the production of sarin gas, according to a government document published on Wednesday .   But the government rejected a suggestion...

US Senator John McCain has penned a blistering column for Russian media, telling the Russian people that their President Vladimir Putin is a dissent-quashing tyrant who "doesn't believe in you." The senior US politician, the 2008 Republican presidential nominee, accused Putin and his...

Donor countries, among them France, Qatar and Russia, are failing to adequately provide urgently-needed funding for the humanitarian crisis in Syria, an international aid agency said. Oxfam, in a report released on Thursday, said its research revealed that many donor countries are not...

The world's chemical weapons watchdog said it is to meet on Friday to discuss a Russian-US plan for the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will meet at 1400 GMT to consider the "elimination of Syrian chemical...