In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, left, meets with Robert Ford, the new U.S. ambassador to Syria, in Damascus, Syria, on Jan. 27, 2011.

The media has largely ignored a disturbing trend: Russia is openly using chemical weapons against Ukraine. Ukraine’s army support services say Russia has carried out 4,800 chemical attacks against its ...

UNITED NATIONS (AP) – Syria took the first step Thursday toward joining the Chemical Weapons Convention after its most important ally, Russia, convinced Damascus to accept a U.S. offer to destroy its ...

The United States has formally accused Russia of using chemical weapons "as a method of warfare" against Ukraine and imposed sweeping new sanctions on Russian firms and government bodies. In a ...

Welcoming Syria's cooperation with the Technical Secretariat of Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), Pakistan has underscored the need for independent verification to eliminate ...

The U.S. State Department has accused Russia of using chemical weapons during its invasion of Ukraine, with the Treasury Department issuing sanctions related to Moscow's alleged chemical and ...

Russian officials have accused Ukraine of preparing to conduct a chemical weapons attack with the support of the United States-led NATO military alliance, ultimately seeking to lay the blame on Moscow ...

Remember when the civilized countries of the world believed using chemical weapons was a war crime not to be tolerated? And yet there are numerous credible media accounts that Russia has deployed ...

OPCW head expected to meet Syrian interim president Previous Assad government hindered chemical weapons inspections DAMASCUS, Feb 7 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of ...

DAMASCUS, Feb 8 (Reuters) - The head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday meetings he had with Syria's new leaders in Damascus were a first step towards ending ...