In a television address tonight, he said the world was entering a 'new era' and a 'global conflict' was already underway.

France used chemical weapons”  banned by the 1925 Geneva Protocol in its war against Algeria from 1954 to 1959, making France, which was the first of the 135 countries to sign the convention against ...

The French envoy urged Assad to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention, to which Syria is a signatory, and to cooperate with the OPCW, the organization responsible for enforcing the treaty.

France and the UK have different nuclear arsenals to ... and potentially weaken other critical treaties and norms, such as those governing chemical and biological weapons. Rather than enhancing ...

The United States consolidated its position as the world's top weapons exporter -- accounting for 43 percent of global exports -- far ahead of the second largest, France, which accounted for 9.6 ...