(Reuters) -United NationsSecretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Thursday he was confidentSyriawould meet a June 30 deadline to eliminate its entire chemical weapons program under a US-Russian plan. Syriahas missed a February 5 deadline to hand over its stockpile of chemical weapons, prompting fears it could fail to fulfill on time the plan which helped ...

[caption id="attachment_59283" align="alignright" width="180"] Foreign-backed militants operating in Syria (file photo)[/caption] TEHRAN (FNA)- The head of theUN weapons inspectors said that the American case for Syrian government firing chemical weapons was weak, because the rockets can only go 2 miles, but government-held territory is much further ...

The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has called for the removal of Syrias entire chemical weapons materials out of the country by the end of June. This movement is very important because its the first important step in an expected process of continued movement for the onward destruction out of [the] country, said SigridKaag,...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The removal of deadly toxins from Syria under an international effort to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal will likely miss a December 31 deadline, the global chemical arms watchdog said. Bad weather and shifting battlefronts in Syria's civil war have delayed the delivery of essential supplies to sites where the toxins ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkovsaid that his country will offer 2 million USD to support the international efforts on eliminating the chemical weapons in Syria. "Russia fulfilled a great contribution to those efforts as the Russian military transport planes handed over 75 trucks to Syria to help secure the chemical ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) Russia sent 25 armored trucks and 50 other vehicles to Syria to help transport toxins that are to be destroyed under an international agreement to rid the nation of its chemical arsenal, Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Monday. In a report to President Vladimir Putin, Shoigu said Russian aircraft delivered 50 Kamaz trucks ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- China will send a military ship to help protect a specially adapted US vessel to destroy Syria's chemical weapons arsenal, the Foreign Ministry in Beijing said Thursday. "China has decided to send a military ship to participate in the protection mission for the shipping of Syrian chemical weapons," Reuters quoted ministry spokeswoman ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Russian armored trucks will help take Syria's chemical weapons out of the country, tracked by US satellite equipment and Chinese surveillance cameras, in an unprecedented international operation, the world's chemical watchdog said. The details are part of an ambitious plan unveiled by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical ...

MOSCOW, December 17 (RIA Novosti) Russia is ready to provide a naval escort for ships carrying chemical weapons being removed from Syria, Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said Monday. Lavrov said after meeting with his EU counterparts in Brussels that the toxic agents are due to be loaded onto carriers made available by EU nations. For our part,...

Russia has reiterated that foreign-backed militants in Syria were behind a chemical weapons attack in August in the Arab country. "It is absolutely obvious that on August 21 a wide scale provocation was staged" by the militants "to provoke foreign military intervention," said Russian Ambassador to the UN Vitaly Churkin on Monday following a UN Security ...

Reports indicate that foreign-backed terrorist groups in Syria possess chemical weapons and have used them, a senior Iranian official says. Existing reports and documents indicate that terrorist groups in Syria have obtained [chemical] weapons and have used them, [an issue] which causes serious concern, Iran's Permanent Representative to the Executive ...

[caption id="attachment_63130" align="alignright" width="180"] Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Gennady Gatilov[/caption] Russia says it will provide material and technical support to transport Syrias chemical weapons to the place of destruction, but it will not participate in the annihilation process of the arsenals. At this stage, we would confine ...

[caption id="attachment_51578" align="alignright" width="180"] The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague[/caption] TEHRAN (Tasnim) - It will be "difficult" to remove all of Syria's most toxic chemical weapons from the country by a December 31 deadline, Ahmet Uzumcu, the head of the global chemicals ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 7 (MNA) The international chemical weapons watchdog says it has verified the destruction of all of Syrias unfilled munitions weapons by mid-2014. The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said in a statement Friday that its experts in Syria also have verified the destruction of parts of buildings at weapons production ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) A Syrian deputy foreign minister underlined his countrys determination to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), and thanked Tehran for providing Damascus with technical assistance in that regard. Syrias Deputy Foreign Minister Faisal al-Meqdaddescribed Irans assistance and consultations to the Arab country to get rid of ...

Irans First Vice President Eshaq Jahangiri has lauded the Syrian governments decision to destroy the countrys chemical arsenal as a prudent way to avert war against the country. Jahangiri made the remarks in a meeting with members of the visiting Syrian delegation headed by the countrys Prime Minister Wael al-Halqi in Tehran on Saturday. On September ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) adopted a new plan for the destruction of Syrias chemical weapons arsenal, after Albania refused to host the dismantling of the stockpile. The country turned the option down despite a request by the US, its NATO ally. It is impossible for Albania to get involved ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Syrias request for military transport equipment to move chemical weapons materials out of the country will be reportedly turned down by the West, according to a media report. Syrias President Bashar Assad's administration submitted a list of transport equipment it believes it will need to safely move the chemical weapons materials ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Syrias endorsement of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) prevented the break-out of a new war in the region and took the excuse from the US and its allies, the Iranian parliament's research center said in a report on Sunday. Syrias membership in the CWC practically took away the excuse that the US and its western-Arab allies had ...

An American analyst says the recent agreement over chemical weapons in Syria thwarted the warmongering plots of Tel Aviv and its backers on Capitol Hill,Press TVreports. The big losers in this process are Israel and the supporters of Israel in the US Congress who are opposed to the whole procedure and were looking for active US military engagement....