The agency in charge of destroying Syria's chemical weapons says it is on track to eliminate the entire stockpile next year, but for one hitch: It hasn't yet found a place to do the actual destruction.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons approved a plan Friday for removing hundreds of tons of toxins from Syria by early February. But within hours of the vote, the country that was expected to accept the chemicals backed off.
The government of Albania, which has a chemical-weapons destruction facility that was built in part with U.S. funds, announced Friday that it could not accept the Syrian chemicals.