Syria fighting complicates effort to ship out chemical weapons

AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - The head of the mission overseeing the destruction of Syria's chemical arms said on Monday she had been unable to use a road along which toxic munitions must be hauled to a Syrian port for shipping abroad by December 31.

Fighting in Syria poses a major hurdle to implementing an agreement between Damascus and the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to remove the deadliest chemicals by the end of the year to be destroyed on a U.S. ship, said Sigrid Kaag, who heads a U.N. mission with the OPCW.