But a U.S. military mission to destroy Syrian chemical weapons a decade ago could offer the White House some viable options. About a year and a half after the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, ...

Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad was finally toppled after 13 years of civil war, having ruled Syria since 2000. The world's attention turns to Assad's unaccounted stockpile of chemical weapons.

D amascus's chemical weapons programme is a “continuing threat” to international peace and security, the US told the UN Security Council on Thursday, as Syria's civil war intensifies after ...

During the course of Syria’s brutal civil war, Assad used chemical weapons more than 300 times against his own citizens, causing thousands of casualties. The worst such attack was a barrage of ...

Mr. al-Assad’s use of chemical weapons on rebel groups and civilians was a defining feature in the early days of Syria’s civil war, so much so that in 2012, then U.S. President Barack Obama ...

The United Nations and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have documented 34 known uses of chemical weapons in the Syrian civil war between 2013 and 2018.

Ukraine asked the global chemical weapons watchdog in The Hague on Tuesday to investigate the alleged use of banned toxic ...

WASHINGTON — President Trump gave his final sign-off Monday to lifting longstanding US sanctions on Syria after pledging to ...

Kyiv has called for a full investigation into claims that Russian forces deployed banned chemical agents on the battlefield.

Britain has renewed its diplomatic ties with Syria following the end of its civil war. Foreign Minister David Lammy, in ...

Washington — President Trump signed an executive order Monday afternoon terminating the United States' sanctions program on ...