US proposal on Syria CW ‘premature’: Russia
Russia has described as “premature” a proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Syria’s chemical weapons should be placed on…
Russia has described as “premature” a proposal by US Secretary of State John Kerry that Syria’s chemical weapons should be placed on…
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says Moscow and Washington have agreed to push for holding the planned Geneva II conference on the…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has stressed his government’s resolve to fully cooperate with the international chemical experts tasked with overseeing the process…
BEIRUT (AP) — International inspectors began destroying Syria’s stockpile of chemical weapons and the machinery used to create it, a United Nations…
A nine-member team of international disarmament experts with the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has started work in Syria.…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Ground Force Brigadier General Mohammad Pakpour said Washington failed to take…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Iran should be invited to the Geneva II talks on Syria and…
The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved a resolution condemning the use of chemical weapons in Syria and calling for their…
A draft resolution on Syria, agreed by Russia and the US, says the UN team of chemical weapons experts must start inspection…
Russian and US officials assess that Syria’s chemical agents arsenal is mostly ‘unweaponized,’ enabling a faster removal of the stockpile than previously…
The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is expected to vote on a draft resolution proposed by Russia and the United States aimed…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The United Nations Security Council is about two days away from agreeing on a resolution to require Damascus to…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Parliaments of China and Russia on Thursday released a joint statement on the crisis in Syria, stating that negotiation…
TEHRAN (FNA)- Russia has enough evidence to assert that homemade sarin was used on August 21 in a chemical attack near Damascus,…
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad says confessions from foreign-backed militants in Syria suggest that they used chemical weapons in recent fatal attacks. During…
Russia says the permanent members of the UN Security Council, long at odds over a resolution on Syria, are likely to adopt…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Russia insists that all chemical weapons in Syria, including chemical arms components possibly held by Syrian opposition forces, should…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – About half of Americans disapprove of the way President Obama is handling foreign policy, a new high as he…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – While some western and Arab countries are helping the rebels in Syria to overthrow Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, an…
A team of UN chemical weapons experts has arrived in Syria for further investigation into the use of banned arms in the…
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged all countries to stop fueling the bloodshed in Syria by dispatching weapons, and push for a…
TEHRAN (FNA)- UN chemical weapons inspectors are to return to Syria on Wednesday to continue their mission, said Russia. But Moscow is…
A US political commentator says Russia will never agree with US military intervention in Syria which he believes is a tactic to…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Syrian armed opposition may be ordered by its foreign sponsors to stage a false flag operation against foreign inspectors…
China has expressed willingness to dispatch experts in line with a Russian-US deal for the elimination of Syria’s chemical weapons. On September…
(Reuters) – Russia accused the West on Sunday of trying to exploit a chemical weapons deal with Syria to push through a U.N. resolution…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A mortar shell landed in the compound of the Russian embassy in central Damascus but there was no immediate…
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – The US is pushing Russia into approving a UN resolution that would allow for military intervention in Syria, Russian…
(Reuters) – Syria has disclosed the information on its chemical weapons program that was expected under an agreed Saturday deadline, the Organisation for the Prohibition…
(CNN) — U.S. officials were pleasantly surprised and encouraged by the initial declaration that Syria has submitted to the world’s chemical weapons watchdog…
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog has begun on Saturday to examine details of Syria’s chemical arsenal supplied by the regime, as rebels…
Russia says the date and cost of the destruction of Syria’s chemical arms agreed under a US-Russian deal will be announced in…
China has called for a political solution to end the crisis in Syria as the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons…
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says it has started examining Syria’s declaration of chemical weapons as part of…
The world’s chemical weapons watchdog says it has received an “initial declaration” of Syria’s chemical weapons program. The Organization for the Prohibition…
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) says it will hold a meeting in the coming days to discuss a…
TEHRAN (FNA)- The world’s chemical weapons watchdog said it is due to meet Friday to discuss a Russian-US plan for the destruction…