The U.K. will act “appropriately” if Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria uses chemical weapons, British Prime Minister Theresa May said Wednesday. Speaking at the House of Commons in a weekly question session with lawmakers, May said the U.K. previously “acted with France and the US when...

A British-based war monitor said Wednesday it had no evidence to suggest the Syrian army had carried out a new chemical attack despite Washington's announcement it had suspicions. "We have no proof at all of the attack," Rami Abdul Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,...

The U.S. State Department on Tuesday issued a warning to the Bashar al-Assad regime on suspicion it could be conducting a new chemical weapons attack in northwest Syria. "Unfortunately, we continue to see signs that the Assad regime may be renewing its use of chemical weapons, including an...

Russia on Thursday presented a draft resolution to the Security Council accusing the UN's chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW, of politicization just weeks before a new probe begins of chemical attacks in Syria. The draft text, seen by AFP, states that the Council -- where Russia holds veto...