Syrian rebels on Thursday seized control of most of Aleppo's central prison, freeing hundreds of detainees, an NGO said, prompting a denial from state media. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said members of the Islamic Front coalition, dominated by the Ahrar al-Sham...

    Syria missed another deadline Wednesday for destroying its chemical weapons amid a British report that Bashar Assad's regime is stockpiling the weaponry for use in case the country is partitioned. Syria agreed last year to turn over its chemical weapons to the...

Libya has completely destroyed the chemical arsenal it inherited from Moamer Kadhafi, 10 years after the now slain dictator signed the Chemical Weapons Convention, Foreign Minister Mohamed Abdelaziz announced Tuesday. The completion of the disarmament process, begun under the ousted...

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Tuesday expressed support for the Syrian National Coalition’s decision to attend the second round of the Geneva II peace talks, saying that the move showed the Coalition supported a political, rather than a military, resolution to the conflict....