France, Britain and the United States have agreed to seek a strong binding UN resolution on Syria with precise deadlines on removal of chemical weapons, the office of French President Francois Hollande says. France, Britain and the United States have agreed to seek a "strong binding" UN resolution on Syria if Damascus fails to hand over its chemical ...

[caption id="attachment_51578" align="alignright" width="180"] The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague[/caption] Russia has described as premature a proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Syria's chemical weapons should be placed on a ship and removed from the region. And my hope ...

Russia's Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow and Washington have agreed to push for holding the planned Geneva II conference on the Syrian crisis in mid-November. In May, Russia and the US agreed to convene an international conference on Syria, which will serve as a follow-up to an earlier Geneva meeting held in June 2012. We advocate holding ...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed his governments resolve to fully cooperate with the international chemical experts tasked with overseeing the process of dismantling Syrias chemical weapons arsenals. We are transparent and the experts can access any facility. Well provide them with the data, which they can examine and verify and then ...

BEIRUT (AP) International inspectors began destroying Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations official said Sunday, racing under a tight deadline aiming to eliminate President Bashar Assad's chemical weapons program within nine months. The move kicks off the ambitious program, prompted by a chemical ...

[caption id="attachment_51578" align="alignright" width="234"] The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague[/caption] A nine-member team of international disarmament experts with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has started work in Syria. The team, which is part of ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said Washington failed to take military action against Syria since it had miscalculations about the regional conditions. Speaking to Tasnim News Agency, the IRGC commander said the Americans changed their mind in taking military ...

[caption id="attachment_52512" align="alignright" width="180"] \[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran should be invited to the Geneva II talks on Syria and is willing to help with implementation of the agreement to rid Syria of chemical weapons. Zarif, in an interview with Al-Monitor on Tuesday,...

Syrian UN Ambassador Bashar Ja'afari has welcomed a resolution adopted by the UN Security Council to eliminate chemical weapons in the country, saying it covers most of Damascus' concerns. Speaking to reporters after the UN Security Council meeting on Friday, he called on Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France and the United States to abide by the resolution ...

The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and calling for their destruction. The resolution adopted by the 15-member council on Friday envisages a plan to eradicate Syria's arsenal of chemical weapons. However, it does not call for automatic punitive action against ...

[caption id="attachment_51578" align="alignright" width="180"] The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague[/caption] A draft resolution on Syria, agreed by Russia and the US, says the UN team of chemical weapons experts must start inspection of the Syrias chemical stockpile by Tuesday. On Friday,...

European Union foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton has praised a UN resolution to eliminate chemical weapons in Syria, pledging an EU forceful support in case of non-compliance. The UN Security Council on Friday unanimously approved a landmark resolution, ordering the elimination of Syria's chemical arms and condemned gas attack in Damascus. However,...

Russian and US officials assess that Syrias chemical agents arsenal is mostly unweaponized, enabling a faster removal of the stockpile than previously thought, a report says. On Thursday, theWashington Postcited a confidential assessment carried out by Washington and Moscow as saying that Russian and US officials believe Syrias entire chemical arsenal ...

The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is expected to vote on a draft resolution proposed by Russia and the United States aimed at eliminating Syrias chemical weapons. According to US and European diplomats, the vote could come as early as Friday if the Hague-based Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) approves a plan to ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The United Nations Security Council is about two days away from agreeing on a resolution to require Damascus to dismantle its chemical weapons stockpiles, a senior Russian foreign ministry official. Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said Wednesday that the text of the resolution will include a reference to Chapter ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Parliaments of China and Russia on Thursday released a joint statement on the crisis in Syria, stating that negotiation is the only feasible resolution to the issue. The joint statement was signed by the foreign affairs committees of both China's National People's Congress and Russia's Federation Council. The statement said ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus, the same type but in higher concentration than in an Aleppo incident earlier this year, Russian FM Sergey Lavrov said. "On the occasion of the incident in the vicinity of Aleppo on March 19, 2013 when the United Nations,...

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says confessions from foreign-backed militants in Syria suggest that they used chemical weapons in recent fatal attacks. During an interview with Venezuelas state-run network Telesur, Assad said militants had confessed to bringing chemical weapons into Syria and that the Syrian army had discovered chemical weapons ...

Russia says the permanent members of the UN Security Council, long at odds over a resolution on Syria, are likely to adopt a resolution in the next two days. Russias Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov said on Wednesday that the document will include a reference to Chapter VII of the UN Charter, which authorizes military intervention in Syria....

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russia insists that all chemical weapons in Syria, including chemical arms components possibly held by Syrian opposition forces, should be destroyed, the Russian Foreign Minister said. Speaking after a meeting with US Secretary of State John Kerry in New York, Sergei Lavrov said both the Russian and the American side stressed ...