Russia breached global chemical weapons ban in Ukraine war, US says
Washington DC, US Reuters The United States on Wednesday accused Russia of violating the international chemical weapons ban by deploying the choking agent chloropicrin against Ukrainian troops and using riot control agents “as a method of warfare” in Ukraine. “The use of such chemicals is not an isolated incident and is probably driven by Russian […]
Chemical weapons watchdog blames Islamic State for 2015 Syria attack
Amsterdam, The Netherlands Reuters The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons on Thursday identified Islamic State militants in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) as the likely perpetrator of a chemical weapons attack in Marea, Syria, on 1st September, 2015. There were “reasonable grounds to believe that on 1 September 2015, during sustained attacks aimed at capturing […]
Syria denies OPCW’s findings on chemical weapon attack in 2018
Reuters Syria’s foreign ministry said on Saturday that a report by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons that found the Syrian Government was responsible for a chemical weapon attack on the rebel-held Syrian city of Douma in 2018 lacked any evidence, and denied the allegations. The global chemical weapons watchdog said on Friday […]
“Life was completely erased”: Syria gas attack victims, awaiting justice, say impunity fuels war crimes
KHALIL ASHAWI and TOM PERRY, of Reuters, report on the long wait for justice for Syrians whose families were killed in poison gas attacks during the country’s long-running war…