NATO Secretary General welcomed in a statement US-Russian agreement  for elimination of Syrian chemical weapons Anders Fogh Rasmussen said, ''This is an important step towards the goal of ensuring the swift, secure and verifiable elimination of Syria's stocks of chemical...

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Sunday sent a strong warning to Syria, saying 'the threat of force is real' if it does not carry out an internationally brokered agreement to hand over its chemical weapons. Kerry issued the warning during a stop in Jerusalem, where he briefed...

Iraqi Kurdistan has asked oil companies operating in the autonomous region for $50 million to help deal with an influx of refugees from  Syria  that has put a strain on its resources. Around 200,000 refugees, many of them from Syria's own Kurdish minority, have poured into the...

French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said a Russia-U.S. deal to remove Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons was an important first step and called for a political solution to address the mounting death toll in Syria. Fabius made the comments to reporters in Beijing after...