Syria   has relinquished only 11 percent of its chemical weapons in three shipments and is on track to miss a politically-loaded midyear deadline to completely destroy the toxic stockpile, sources told Reuters on Friday. Syria  should already have handed...

Russia  and NATO are drawing up plans for a rare joint naval operation in the Mediterranean to protect the U.S. ship that will destroy Syria's deadliest chemical weapons, officials and other sources said. The operation would be a symbolic breakthrough at a time when...

Thousands of people have fled a rebel-held town in Syria  after it was bombed and shelled in an operation that has prompted fears of a major assault by ground troops, the  United Nations  said on Friday. The fighting came as peace talks in Geneva neared the end...

A fresh round of U.N.-brokered peace talks between Syria's government and opposition has made no progress, the two sides said Friday. "We deeply regret that this round did not make any progress," Syria's deputy foreign minister, Faisal Muqdad told reporters as both sides traded blame...