11 days after the attack, the OPCW will finally be allowed access to the suspected chemical weapons attack site near Damascus... READ MORE›
Washington and its allies launched a missile strike targeting Syrian military and civilian facilities on Saturday, in retaliation for the alleged chemical attack in Douma... READ MORE›
Russia, a longtime ally of the Syrian government, intervened militarily in 2015 to help turn the tide of the civil war... READ MORE›
Syria conflict Russia may have tampered with chemical attack site, US envoy says... READ MORE›
These included its legalization as a political party, and a requirement that the Syrian army stay out of Douma... READ MORE›
The Syrian Regime has an abhorrent record of using chemical weapons against its own people... READ MORE›
Syrian gas attack Little-known Eastern Ghouta has become the focal point of ongoing conflict... READ MORE›
A diplomatic source said evidence may have been removed while inspectors negotiated access with Syrian authorities to the site of the chemical attack in Syria's Douma... READ MORE›
The United States, France and Britain launched 105 missiles overnight in retaliation for a suspected poison gas attack in Syria... READ MORE›
Vice President Mike Pence said the strikes, degraded and crippled chemical weapons capabilities of Syria ... READ MORE›
He authorized a barrage of Tomahawk cruise missiles to hit a single Syrian airfield in April 2017 in retaliation for Assad's use of sarin gas against civilians... READ MORE›
Chlorine has legitimate industrial and other civilian uses, so it is not banned by the Chemical Weapons Convention... READ MORE›
A sarin attack triggered Trump's decision last year to strike a Syrian air base... READ MORE›
Meanwhile Assad's Russian ally has continued to deny that the Syrian government still has an arsenal of chemical weapons... READ MORE›
The US says missiles hit targets associated with the Syrian regime's chemical weapons programme ... READ MORE›
Syria agreed in 2013 to give up its chemical weapons after a nerve gas attack killed hundreds of people in Douma... READ MORE›
Moscow pointed out that the Western allies ignored evidence provided by Syria and Russia that the alleged chemical attack was actually staged in a cynical manner... READ MORE›
The OPCW confirmed on Thursday that the lethal poison used in the attack on the Skripals was a military-grade nerve agent of high purity ... READ MORE›
Sedwill also alleges that in the 2000s, Russia developed a chemical warfare programme designed to deliver nerve agents, including by application to door handles ... READ MORE›
The world's chemical arms watchdog on Thursday confirmed Britain's findings on the identity of a nerve agent used on a former Russian spy, which London has... READ MORE›
Johnson said the chemical was a military grade nerve agent... READ MORE›
Trump's initial tweet Thursday about timing included a complaint about the military burden shouldered by the United States... READ MORE›
US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that missiles will be coming in response to an alleged chemical attack in Syria, defying Russian warnings against a strike... READ MORE›
The tweet came as Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack... READ MORE›
The tweet came as Trump administration officials have consulted with global allies on a possible joint military response to Syria's alleged poison gas attack... READ MORE›
Dozens of buses arrived in rebel-held Douma on Tuesday, carrying Syrian insurgents who agreed to surrender following the suspected chemical attack, a monitoring group said... READ MORE›
The Syrian government and its Russian backers strongly deny the allegations, and have questioned whether a chemical weapons attack took place... READ MORE›
Syrian opposition rescue workers and medics said more than 40 people died and hundreds injured in the poison gas attack... READ MORE›
Syria war What we know about Douma 'chemical attack'... READ MORE›
Trump 'big price to pay' for syria chemical weapons attack... READ MORE›
Does the UK have control samples of the chemical warfare agent, which British representatives refer to as Novichok ?... READ MORE›
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad said a suspected chemical weapons attack was a fabrication to justify a US military strike, AFP news agency reported... READ MORE›
Chemical weapons experts say Tuesday's attack appears to show that the Syrian regime did not hand over its entire stockpile to be destroyed... READ MORE›
Then Abdel Hameed Alyousef took them to a mass grave where 22 members of his family were being buried... READ MORE›
UN weighs possible war-crime probe as medical workers in rebel-held Idlib province struggle to cope with casualties... READ MORE›
Dozens of people have been killed in what local medics said was a toxic gas attack on the besieged town of Douma near Damascus... READ MORE›
An earlier report by the same team blamed Syrian government troops for chlorine attacks in Talmenes in March 2014 and Sarmin in March 2015... READ MORE›
The Russian government has sharply contested accounts by witnesses and international leaders of a chemical attack that killed more than 100 people in northern Syria on Tuesday... READ MORE›
The international experts also conducted additional checks at Syrian government facilities that were not related to the production or storage of chemical weapons... READ MORE›
Syria Probe reveals chemical weapons use in Hama... READ MORE›
Basically there have been many allegations of chemical use by the Syrian government... READ MORE›
In his brief statement, President Trump did not make broad claims or suggest further action was in the offing... READ MORE›
Mosul was at the center of the Islamic State's chemical weapons production, Mr. Strack said... READ MORE›
Rebel warehouse with chem weapons hit by Syrian airstrike in Idlib - Russian MOD -- RT News... READ MORE›
Basically, there have been many allegations of chemical use by the Syrian government it's been used for numerous years to demonize the Syrian government... READ MORE›
The White House says it is confident Bashar al-Assad's government was behind an apparent chemical attack that killed at least 58 people in north-west Syria... READ MORE›
It was the eighth time during Syria's six-year-old civil war that Moscow has used its veto power on the Security Council to shield Assad's government... READ MORE›
The medical results from Turkey came as the Syrian foreign minister denied that his government used chemical weapons in the attack... READ MORE›
The UN Security Council on Wednesday opened a meeting on a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria that killed at least 72 of people, including 20 children... READ MORE›
However, the governor of Homs told RT that at least five people had been killed, three of whom were Syrian soldiers... READ MORE›
The chemical weapons attack on the town of Khan Sheikhoun killed scores of people, according to a war monitor, Syrian opposition groups and Western countries... READ MORE›
Abdel Hameed Alyousef's wife and twins were among more than 80 people killed in the attack on the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun on Tuesday... READ MORE›
Had not responded to Syrian requests to investigate alleged use of chemical weapons by insurgents... READ MORE›
A stockpile of sarin was being held at the Syrian airbase targeted by US air strikes following a chemical attack, American officials have said... READ MORE›
Trump was at his Florida estate for his first summit with Chinese President Xi Jinping... READ MORE›
On Thursday, the OPCW's executive council overwhelmingly rejected a proposal from Russia and Iran for a new investigation into the Idlib chemical incident... READ MORE›
The explosions woke up civil defense worker Khaled al-Nasr just after 6 30 a.m... READ MORE›
Moscow slams French report on Syria chemical attack as inferior substitute to stalled OPCW probe -- RT News... READ MORE›
Russia did not publicly declare its Foliant programme before signing the 1993 chemical weapons convention, limiting known data about the nerve agent's properties... READ MORE›
US accuses Moscow of 'sowing doubt' over narrative of Assad's culpability in chemical attack -- RT News... READ MORE›
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