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Experts from the world's chemical weapons watchdog will begin inspecting Syria's stockpile by Tuesday, a draft agreement says. The draft also unusually authorises the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to…

BEIRUT: An Al-Qaeda front group in Syria says girls in a village it controls will not be allowed to attend school unless they wear Islamic clothing, a monitoring group said Saturday. In Tweihineh, "the Islamic State of Iraq and the…

United Nations: Human Rights Watch on Saturday criticised a hard-won UN Security Council resolution ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical arsenal for failing to deliver justice for the conflict's victims. "This resolution fails to…

Two militants of the powerful Shiite Hezbollah movement were among four people killed in a firefight Saturday with Sunni gunmen in eastern Lebanon, a security official said. The bloodshed is the worst sectarian violence to hit…

UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has described the UN resolution on Syrian chemical weapons as "ground-breaking". At a session in New York, the 15-member body backed the draft document agreed earlier by Russia and the US. The deal…

The emphasis now shifts to the multinational organization responsible for eliminating chemical weapons worldwide. It is known as “The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons,” (OPCW), an independent entity which has a working…

(CNN) -- When inspectors from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons arrive in Damascus on Monday they'll face a daunting task. They'll need to visit nearly 50 different sites as part of the effort to rid Syria of its…

Experts from the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) will be on the ground in Syria as early as Tuesday 1 October to begin inspecting the Assad government's stockpile of deadly materials. The OPCW inspections will…

Contrary to the picture being pumped out by the big-business media, U.S. imperialist threats of military intervention in Syria have not faded away. The underlying conflicts are no closer to resolution and the threat remains real — all…

Reef Dimashq: At least 30, most of which are civilians and include a child, were killed and dozens wounded by a detonated car explosion at the al-Sahel (Khaled Ibn al-Walid) mosque as they were leaving the mosque after friday…