The full membership of the Organization of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons voted to reject a Russian-led attempt to curb the new powers given to the agency to place blame on the use of banned toxic munitions in Syria on Tuesday, according to Reuters. The members voted 99 to 27 in favor of passing the increased budget for 2019 while rejecting proposals by Russia and Iran that aimed to block it from increasing its powers. The vote came after tensions escalated this year between Russia, whose forces are supporting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, and the West over Assad's repeated use of chemical weapons in the Syrian war. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said giving the...

Members of the global chemical weapons watchdog on Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a Russian-led push to undercut new powers that allow the agency to point the finger of blame for the use of banned toxic munitions in Syria.

Members of the global chemical weapons agency on Tuesday overwhelmingly passed a new budget, rejecting attempts by Russia to block the organization from gaining new powers to assign blame for attacks in Syria.

A push led by Russia to undercut new powers by the global chemical weapons agency to assign blame for attacks with banned poisons in Syria failed to win enough votes on Tuesday.

Iraq launched an air strike on an Islamic State target inside neighboring Syria on Tuesday, its military said on Monday.

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu told his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday that Moscow and Ankara needed to take swift decisions to support a demilitarized zone in Syria's Idlib Province.

SYRIAN armed forces have liberated the entirety of the southern Syrian province of as-Suwayda from the clutches of ISIS, they reported on Monday.

U.S. officials and internal government emails revealed the White House was preparing to add Venezuela to the United States list of state sponsors of terrorism on Monday, according to The Washington Post. The move would be a remarkable escalation after President Donald Trump criticized Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro since the list is typically used for governments accused of providing "support for acts of international terrorism." The current list only includes Iran, North Korea, Sudan, and Syria. Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida is among several Republican legislators who have pushed for the designation on the grounds that Caracas has ties to Lebanese Hezbollah, the Revolutionary Armed Forces...

The Syrian army said on Monday Islamic State militants had been cleared from a rugged area in southeastern Syria, where they had been holding out for months against a campaign to defeat them.