U.S. President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron talked over phone Tuesday over nuclear talks with Iran and an envisioned peace conference on Syria.
Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama said Tuesday that his country has yet to decide on whether to destroy chemical weapons from Syria on its soil amid strong protests from environmental groups.
A leading Syrian Kurdish figure stressed Tuesday that the Kurds have no intention to establish an independent political entity, or Kurdish government, in the Kurdish-dominated areas in Syria.
The Syrian National Coalition ( SNC), the main opposition group based in Istanbul, said on Monday that it agreed to join the Geneva II conference on condition that President Bashar al-Assad play no role in a transitional governing body.
The head of the Joint Mission on Tuesday said that the progress of the mission's progress in the destruction of Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons was made due to "quick and construction collaboration" from Damascus.
While Damascus said it was ready to embark on negotiations with the opposition in the proposed peace conference in Geneva, the Western-backed opposition was still divided over its participation.
Russian Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that it was alarmed by reports about new cases concerning the use of chemical weapons in Syria.
The United Nations Special Coordinator for Lebanon Derek Plumbly denied Tuesday any knowledge of plans to destroy Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles in neighboring Lebanon.
International chemical weapon inspectors have completed verification activities at 21 of Syria's 23 declared chemical weapon sites, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement Monday.
A booby-trapped motorcycle ripped through a military vehicle in Syria's northern province of Qamishly, leaving unknown number of casualties, the pan-Arab Mayadeen TV reported.
Syria has submitted an initial declaration of its chemical weapon program, including a general plan of destruction of its chemical weapons' program, the Organization of the Prohibition of the Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said in a statement Sunday.
A joint international mission in charge of Syria's chemical weapons program said that it had visited 18 of the sites disclosed by Syria, a UN spokesman said here Wednesday.
Syria's Foreign Ministry on Wednesday slammed the recent European Union meeting in Luxembourg, during which the EU ministers condemned the Syrian government for "unprecedented use of force and systematic violations of human rights."
The Syrian government has " fully cooperated" in supporting the joint mission of the UN and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to destroy Syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons, Special Coordinator Sigrid Kaag said on Tuesday.
A senior official said here Tuesday that the UN is "working hard" to convene an international conference on Syria in Geneva, Switzerland in mid-November in order to put an early end to the 30-month Syrian crisis.
UN-Arab League envoy for Syria Lakhdar Brahimi on Monday held talks with Iraqi leaders in Baghdad about the Syrian crisis, expecting an international conference on Syria to be held at the end of November.
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said there is not an official date or any success factors for the Geneva II conference on Syria, according to a recent interview broadcast by Lebanese al-Mayadeen TV on Monday.
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