Syria

The text of that resolution was agreed Thursday by the five permanent Security Council members.

Save the Children says four million Syrians — more than half of them children — are unable to produce or buy enough food.

Obama will address the United Nations General Assembly this morning.

Under a U.S.-Russian plan, Syria is to give up its chemical weapons.

A day earlier, the body that polices the global treaty outlawing chemical weapons said it had received a preliminary submission from Syria.

Laurent Fabius said Monday the chief opposition movement will be invited to the meeting, which will take place in New York while the U.N. is meeting.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin is using an opinion piece in The New York Times to assert that it's alarming that military intervention in internal conflicts in foreign countries has become commonplace for the United States...

The White House is looking to pin on Russia the success or failure of a diplomatic option to secure Syria's chemical weapons.

Panelists discuss the Benghazi attack one year later, and the potential for the President to be charged as a war criminal.

President Obama again made his case for action against Syria in a speech from the East Room of the White House on Tuesday night while asking the House and Senate to put off a vote a vote on military action.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Steve Scalise has become Louisiana's latest congressman to reject the idea of a U.S. military strike on Syria.

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The U.N. Security Council has canceled a meeting on a resolution aimed at securing and destroying Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles.

A State Department official says President Barack Obama is sending Secretary of State John Kerry to Switzerland this week to discuss a possible deal on Syria's chemical weapons with Russia's foreign minister.

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany has become the third member of Louisiana's congressional delegation to say he opposes U.S. military intervention in Syria. Boustany, a Republican from Lafayette, announced his decision Monday to vote against President Barack Obama's proposal after a closed-door briefing with other members of Congress, Vice President Joe Biden and senior Obama admi

MOSCOW (AP) — Syria says it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling. Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem said Tuesday after meeting with Russian parliament speaker that his government quickly agreed to the Russian initiative to "derail the U...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Syrian President Bashar Assad (bah-SHAR' AH'-sahd) is warning there will be retaliation against the U. S. for any military strike launched in response to a chemical weapons attack. In an interview broadcast Monday on CBS' "This Morning," Assad says, "You should expect everything...

What's missing from the public record is direct proof, rather than circumstantial evidence.

Congress faces a crowded and contentious agenda.

Reports of increased Russian naval presence near Syria have stoked fears about a larger international conflict if the United States orders airstrikes over a chemical weapons attack last month.