U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said Friday that prospects for a resumption in the Syrian peace process are riding on the outcome of U.S.-Russian talks aimed at securing Syria's chemical weapons arsenal that lurched into a second day. As...

Russia's President Vladimir Putin says that Syria's move to join an international convention banning chemical weapons has proven its good faith. Speaking at a summit of an international security grouping dominated by Russia and China, Putin said Friday the move showed that Syria has "serious...

Secretary of State John Kerry today rejected a call from Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for the U.S. to drop its threat of force before Syria gives up its  chemical weapons . "President Obama has made clear that should diplomacy fail, force might be necessary to deter and degrade...

The head of the opposition Free Syria Army, General Salim Idriss, told CNN’s Christiane Amanpour on Thursday that he has intelligence that the Assad regime is moving its chemical weapons out of the country. “Today we have information that the regime began to move chemical materials and...