Syria chemical weapons disarmament

US sees Assad's fall as chance to destroy Syria's chemical arsenal 'once and for all'

The OPCW is a treaty-based organization in the Netherlands tasked with implementing the 1997 chemical nonproliferation treaty.

 Syrian medical staff take part in a training exercise to learn how to treat victims of chemical weapons attacks, in a course organized by the World Health Organisation (WHO) in Gaziantep, Turkey, July 20, 2017
US Embassador Robert Wood and members of his delegation walk out of a plenum debate at the UN in Geneva yesterday, in protest of Syria’s presidency of the Conference on Disarmament.

U.S. walks out of disarmament conference to protest Syrian presidency

US Navy missile launcher fires a Tomahawk missile in a strike on Syria

Diplomatic disputes abound after coalition airstrikes hit Syria

Amos Yadlin

Former IDF Intel Chief urges grounding of Assad's helicopter fleet


For the first time since Yom Kippur War, Syria to call up army reserves

The reservists would likely be sent to East Aleppo, which recently fell to regime forces.

Forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad flash victory signs and carry a Syrian national flag on the edge of the historic city of Palmyra in Homs Governorate, in this handout picture provided by SANA on March 26, 2016.

Disillusioned ISIS member turns over details of 22,000 supporters

The man, who called himself Abu Hamed, handed over the memory stick during a meeting at an undisclosed location in Turkey, according to the Sky News report.

ISIS operative decapitates a young boy

Oren: Israel helped Obama avoid bombing Syria after chemical attack

US senior official denies Oren's account of events, says Obama and Putin discussed disarmament well before August 2013.

Employees of the Research Institute for Protective Technologies, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection (WIS) inspect a dummy sample which is contaminated with a substance similar to the chemical weapon Sarin.

Israel et les armes chimiques

Jérusalem estime ne pas être en mesure de ratifier la Convention sur les armes chimiques, tant que la région n’est pas exempte d’armes de destruction massive

Démantèlement d'armes chimiques

UN condemns use of chemical weapons in Syria, but does not blame Assad regime

Fourteen members, including Syrian ally Russia, voted in favor of the US-drafted resolution. Venezuela abstained because it said the resolution "opens a dangerous path to the use of force."

Chemical weapons disposal [file]