THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The Syrian government’s chemical weapons stockpile has been linked for the first time by laboratory tests to the largest sarin...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands: In the spring of 2015 a Syrian major general escorted a small team of chemical weapons inspectors to a warehouse outside the Syrian...
ROTTERDAM: The Dutch prosecutor leading the investigation into the downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine last year said Tuesday he was...
AMSTERDAM: The Netherlands will extend its participation in the military mission against ISIS militants in Iraq by one year until October 2016, Dutch Prime...
AMSTERDAM: International inspectors have found traces of sarin and VX nerve agent at a military research site in Syria that had not been declared to the...
THE HAGUE: Many leading backers of the International Criminal Court will ignore Israel’s call for them to cut funding in response to an inquiry into possible...
AMSTERDAM: Syria has started the long-delayed destruction of a dozen underground bunkers and hangars that were used for the production and storage of chemical...
AMSTERDAM: Crash investigators will try to reconstruct the Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 that was shot down over eastern Ukraine in July from wreckage that was...
AMSTERDAM: Relatives of MH17 crash victims, angered by what they see as Dutch mishandling of inquiries into the disaster, want a special U.N. envoy to launch...
OCCUPIED JERUSALEM/THE HAGUE: The possibility of a war crimes investigation into the conduct of Israeli forces in Gaza, until recently unthinkable, has grown...
THE HAGUE: Palestinian Foreign Minister Riad al-Malki said there was "clear evidence" of war crimes by Israel during its offensive in Gaza as he met...
AMSTERDAM: Syria has made no progress in relinquishing a last batch of chemical weapons it says is inaccessible due to fighting, making it increasingly likely...
AMSTERDAM: The head of the global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile is considering launching a fact-finding...
BEIRUT/THE HAGUE: Syria has submitted a "more specific" list of its chemical weapons to the global regulator overseeing the destruction of its stockpile after...
THE HAGUE: Syria will miss a major deadline next week in the programme to destroy its chemical weapons production facilities, sources at the Organisation for...
AMSTERDAM: A month-long tender for the commercial destruction of hundreds of tons of industrial chemicals and toxic waste from Syria's chemical weapons...
TIRANA/THE HAGUE: On the evening of Nov. 11, the U.S. ambassador to Tirana, Alexander Arvizu, met Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama and his foreign minister at...
THE HAGUE: Western powers will turn down a Syrian request for military transport equipment to ship out chemical weapons material, saying the armored trucks...
AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT: Safety concerns have prevented inspectors from a global chemical weapons watchdog from reaching two of the 23 sites declared by Syria as...
AMSTERDAM/WASHINGTON: The Pentagon is suggesting the world's chemical weapons watchdog uses a U.S.-made mobile destruction unit in Syria to neutralise the...
AMSTERDAM: If Iraq is anything to go by, destroying Syria’s massive chemical weapons arsenal will mean checking dozens of far-flung sites in a war zone...
AMSTERDAM: With the world watching and a U.S.-led strike on hold, U.N. inspectors probing suspected chemical attacks in Syria are under extreme pressure to...
AMSTERDAM/AMMAN: Syria, defeated by Israel in three wars and afraid its archenemy had gained a nuclear arsenal, began in earnest to build a covert chemical...
AMSTERDAM: It took Tokyo police just three hours to confirm the use of sarin gas when members of a doomsday cult attacked five crowded subway cars in 1995,...