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.
Syrian soldiers say gruesome footage of Alawite victims is too distressing to air.
Following a chemical attack in Damascus, disarmament experts will begin cataloguing Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons in order to destroy it.
At least nine people, most of them students, were killed in an air strike that hit a school in the rebel-held Syrian city of Raqqa on Sunday.
South Africa has welcomed a decision providing for the destruction of chemical weapons in Syria, the department of international relations has said.
People in the Alawite heartland of Qerdaha say they are willing to die for the Syrian president.
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.
The US, UK and France want UN-sanctioned use of force should Syria fail to allow destruction of its chemical weapons, but Russia disagrees.
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.
In reaching a deal on Syria after what a US official described as three days of "hard-fought" debate, Moscow and Washington can each count benefits.
On day three of talks between the United States and Russia, the two agree to eliminate Syria’s chemical weapons by mid 2014.
The US and Russia were to hold a third day of complex talks, seeking to hammer out a deal on eliminating Syria’s arsenal of chemical weapons.
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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.
The US’s decision to not strike Syria leaves Saudi Arabia and Qatar with a few options beyond continuing to fund one side in a military stalemate.
France is mobilised and ready to launch military action over the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime, says President Francois Hollande.
War-weary US Congress members opposing armed intervention in Syria remain hopeful that a diplomatic solution could rid the regime of chemical weapons.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said that Syria is holding thousands of tonnes of unmixed "binary components".
The Syrian government has accepted a Russian proposal to put its chemical weapons under international control to avoid a possible US military strike.
As the threat of US-led strikes on Syria looms large, Italy is preparing for a dramatic rise in refugee landings on its shores.
Labour strikes, the US’s possible intervention in Syria and data from South Africa, China and the UK will determine this week’s economic mood.
Government forces may have carried out the Damascus chemical attack without the personal permission of President Bashar al-Assad, says a report.
US President Barack Obama is in favour of limited strikes on Syria to deter chemical weapons attacks.
Russia is sending the naval landing ship Nikolai Filchenkov to the eastern Mediterranean, says state news agency Interfax.
Syria is the most dramatic moment of the Middle East today, as we await a US military strike against the ruling Bashar al-Assad, writes Rami G Khouri.
The US president stays true to his character as he vacillates over whether to attack the country.
China warned on Thursday that military intervention in Syria would hurt the global economy and push up oil prices.