Syria

New Jersey Senator Robert Menendez (D) said he was sickened while reading an op-ed piece by Russian President Vladimir Putin warning against American exceptionalism.

The White House is not putting a timeline on a diplomatic resolution to the crisis in Syria.

A French official says tense negotiations have begun on a proposed U.N. resolution that would put Syria's chemical weapons under international control and end a diplomatic stalemate over a deadly Aug. 21 poison gas attack.

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.

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.

Secretary of State John Kerry says a proposed Russian deal with Syria to give up its chemical weapons stockpiles must be enshrined in a binding U.N. Security Council resolution that sets consequences for Syrian non-compliance.

Syria says it has accepted Russia's proposal to place its chemical weapons under international control for subsequent dismantling.

An international human rights group says evidence "strongly suggest" that Syrian government forces fired rockets with warheads containing a nerve agent into a Damascus suburb in August, killing hundreds of people there.

Only 1 in 5 Americans believe that failing to respond to chemical weapons attacks in Syria would embolden other rogue governments, rejecting the heart of a weeks-long White House campaign for U.S. military strikes, an Associated Press poll concluded Monday.

His words aren't backed up by the facts. That's the Obama administration's response to the denials by Syrian President Bashar Assad that his military used chemical weapons in a deadly attack near Damascus last month.