A team of UN chemical weapons experts has arrived in Syria for further investigation into the use of banned arms in the Middle Eastern country. The group, led by chief UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom, arrived in Syria on Wednesday, AFP reported. Reports say that the team is planned to probe the alleged use of chemical weapons some ...

(Reuters) -Russiaaccused the West on Sunday of trying to exploit a chemical weapons deal with Syria to push through a U.N. resolution threatening force against President Bashar al-Assad. Assad's government has handed over information about its chemical arsenal to a U.N.-backed weapons watchdog, meeting the first deadline of the ambitious U.S.-Russia ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- UN chemical weapons inspectors will return to Syria soon to investigate the use of chemical weapons, their chief said on Wednesday. "Yes we will be returning to Syria. Our planning isn't finished yet, so I can't say when we will be going, but it will be soon," UN chief inspector Aake Sellstroem stated, AFP reported. His team, ...

When chemical-weapons experts work with things as dangerous as mustard gas and sarin, they don't like to be rushed. But a fast timetable is exactly what the United States and Russia have agreed for Syria. The deadline of mid-2014 for destroying all of Syria's chemical weapons is the fastest schedule ever attempted, anywhere. No wonder, then, many ...

[caption id="attachment_29783" align="alignright" width="180"] US Secretary of State John Kerry[/caption] WASHINGTON (AP) Secretary of State John Kerry is asserting the United States now has evidence of sarin gas use in Syria and says the "case is building" for a military attack. A day after President Barack Obama stepped back from his threat to ...

[caption id="attachment_30287" align="alignright" width="210"] A file photo of the militants operating in Syria[/caption] Russian experts have found that Syrian militants fighting against the government of President Bashar al-Assad made sarin nervegas and used it in a deadly attack outside Aleppo in March. By Press TV   The Iran Project ...

(Reuters) - U.N. human rights investigators have gathered testimony from casualties of Syria's civil war and medical staff indicating that rebel forces have used the nerve agent sarin, one of the lead investigators said on Sunday. The United Nations independent commission of inquiry onSyriahas not yet seen evidence of government forces having used ...