I've spent much of the last week in Antakya, an ancient city, known to Byzantine Christians as Antioch, which now serves as a bivouac for Syrian rebel fighters and a jumping-off point for journalists and humanitarian actors working in Syria, which lies 20...

Members of the team from the UN and the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) "have left for a site where they are beginning verification and destruction." A team of disarmament inspectors began the process of destroying Syria's chemical weapons and...

 The United States and its partners are planning a series of rapid steps to dismantle  Syria ’s chemical weapons program, a strategy that is intended to guard against backsliding by President Bashar al-Assad  and limit the time that international experts need to work in the...

Syria’s deputy foreign minister, Fayssal Mekdad, said Tuesday that his government aimed to negotiate an end to the country’s civil war by talking with a broad range of Syrians, from religious and community leaders to peaceful opposition groups, dismissing the main Western-backed exile...