The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), a global non-proliferation agency, will meet ...

on Wednesday in Damascus. Still, it was the Russians who were asked to make concessions. Mr. al-Shara emphasized that any new ...

In Europe, numerous countries had begun to talk openly about normalising relations with Damascus in a bid to ... Years of looting and destruction have left a homeland without homes, where hopes ...

In a significant move towards eliminating Syria’s chemical weapons programme, the head of the UN-backed international ...

During the Syrian civil war the OPCW found that chemical weapons were likely used by the regime in 20 instances.

A delegation from the global chemical weapons watchdog has arrived in Damascus to meet with Syria’s new leaders for the first time since the fall of former President Bashar Assad ...

Damascus (AFP) – To applause ... Assad brutally repressed anti-government protests in 2011. Images of the destruction wreaked by more than 13 years of fighting were projected on the back ...

As part of membership, Damascus was supposed to be subjected ... identifying those responsible for their use and overseeing the destruction of remaining munitions. The OPCW has asked the ...

Images of the destruction wreaked by more than 13 years of fighting ... the music, the people who have come to listen -- that's the best image of Damascus," she said, beaming, and wearing a white ...

Images of the destruction wreaked by more than 13 years ... the music, the people who have come to listen that's the best image of Damascus," she said, beaming, and wearing a white hijab.