US President Barack Obama welcomed the deal reached Saturday to strip Syria of chemical weapons but said much remains to be done and warned Damascus to comply with the accord. In a statement, Obama said that if the regime of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad does not live up to the deal...

The United States and Russia on Saturday agreed on an ambitious plan to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons by the middle of next year. In a landmark deal thrashed out in talks spanning three days, the two powers gave Syrian President Bashar al-Assad a week to hand over the details and...

The Obama administration will not press for U.N. authorization to use force against Syria if it reneges on any agreement to give up its chemical weapons, senior administration officials said Friday. The Russians have made clear in talks here between Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and...

The main Syrian exile opposition group, the National Coalition of Syrian Revolutionary and Opposition Forces, issued  a statement  on Friday denouncing Syria’s willingness to join the Chemical Weapons Convention as a feint by the government of President Bashar al-Assad and saying,...