Syria is committed to a deal to hand over its chemical weapons, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview, as major powers inched closer to a UN resolution enshrining the agreement. The Syrian president, in an interview with Venezuelan television station Telesur broadcast on Wednesday,...

  Russia  is ready to help guard Syria's chemical weapons sites when President Bashar al-Assad's chemical arms stockpiles and factories are destroyed, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov was quoted as saying on Thursday by news agencies. "We will be ready to help in...

The world's major powers on Wednesday agreed the "main points" of a UN Security Council resolution on destroying Syria's chemical weapons, UN diplomats said. The draft resolution would allow for sanctions under Chapter VII of the UN charter to be considered if President Bashar al-Assad fails...

  UN leader Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday pressed the major powers to overcome differences on the Syria war amid troubled talks on a UN Security Council resolution on Syria's chemical arms. Ban hosted a lunch with the foreign ministers of the United States, Russia, China, Britain and France...