In the wake of acid attacks, victims — often women — can feel hopeless. Now, women around the world are fighting back.

The first round of peace talks has ended with no progess made on ending the civil war or commitment from the govt to return to the negotiating table.

The OPCW has called on President Bashar al-Assad to pick up momentum in handing over Syria’s remaining chemicals for destruction.

Syria has started moving chemical weapons materials out of the country as part of the disarmament programme, which has faced technical problems.

Chemical arms watchdog OPCW has said Syria will likely miss its December 31 deadline to remove the "most critical" warfare chemicals from the country.

The country has offered to destroy Syrian chemicals on a US ship and is looking for a suitable Mediterranean port where processing can be carried out.

Syria’s entire declared stock of chemical weapons has been placed under seal, says inspectors.

The world’s chemical weapons watchdog says its inspectors have checked 11 out of 20 sites identified to be carrying Syria’s banned weapons.

The OPCW, a chemical weapons watchdog supervising the destruction of Syria’s arsenal, has won the Nobel Peace prize.

National assembly speaker Max Sisulu says the destruction of chemical weapons should take place in every country, not only in Syria.

Following a chemical attack in Damascus, disarmament experts will begin cataloguing Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons in order to destroy it.

South Africa has welcomed a decision providing for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, the department of international relations has said.

President Bashar al-Assad is willing to get rid of Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal, but says it will cost $1-billion and take a year.

Germany has rejected a suggestion it might have contributed to the sarin attack in Damascus after it was revealed the country sold chemicals to Syria.

Despite France’s sentiments, Russia’s foreign minister has said there was no proof that Bashar al-Assad’s troops carried out the attack on Damascus.

A UN report detailing the Damascus chemical attack has bolstered the US argument that Syria’s government was responsible, says the White House.

UN chemical weapons investigator Ake Sellstrom has found in his report that nerve agent sarin was used in the August 21 attack on Damascus.

On day three of talks between the United States and Russia, the two agree to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid 2014.

An elite Syrian unit that runs the state’s chemical arms programme has been dispersing the weapons to dozens of sites across the country, say reports.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Syria is holding thousands of tonnes of unmixed "binary components".