German specialty chemicals group Wacker Chemie’s (WCHG.DE) polysilicon plant in Charleston, Tennessee, is likely to remain out of commission for several months after an explosion this month, it said on Wednesday. The $2.5 billion U.S. plant, Wacker’s biggest single investment, was...

    Zaman Al Wasl reveals in a new documentary the inner circle of the Syrian regime's chemical facilities.    A data-rich report highlights the Chemical programme since its birth by the Soviet Union and how the Israelis were following up the...

U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis hinted on Monday about the existence of military options on North Korea that might spare Seoul from a brutal counterattack but declined to say what kind of options he was talking about or whether they involved the use of lethal force. U.S. Ambassador to...

 Veteran prosecutor Carla del Ponte signed off from the United Nations Syria investigation on Monday by criticizing the U.N. Security Council and telling Syria’s ambassador his government had used chemical weapons. The former Swiss attorney general, who went on to prosecute war...