The global chemical arms watchdog said Friday it has chosen two U.S. and Finnish companies to help destroy Syria’s chemical arsenal as part of an ambitious plan that has suffered a string of setbacks. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Finland’s...

IS PRESIDENT Obama creeping toward a rethinking of his Syria policy? Some words he spoke Tuesday raised our hopes. At a news conference with French President François Hollande, Mr. Obama described the Syrian conflict, which he dismissed five months ago as “ someone else’s civil...

Moscow Wednesday accused Washington of deliberately distorting its position on conflict-torn Syria, a day after US President Barack Obama branded Russia as a holdout against a UN draft resolution on Syria aid. "This is unlikely that our US partners do not possess real information on...

At a closed door meeting, Western governments led by the United States took Syria to task for failing to surrender its chemical weapons under ambitious deadlines agreed with Russia after a poison gas attack in August. Speaker after speaker stood up to berate Damascus at the Organisation for...