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People pass in front the Syrian Defense Ministry building which on Wednesday was heavily damaged by Israeli airstrikes in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, July 17, 2025. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)

Syrian adviser: Israeli airstrikes impede search for Assad-era chemical weapons

By Vaughn Cockayne - The Washington Times

A boy holding a rifle borrowed from a Syrian opposition fighter poses on the top of a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus, Syria, Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa)

Concern over Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile triggers emergency meeting of global monitor

By Molly Quell - Associated Press

Members of global chemical weapons watchdog vote to keep Syria from getting poison gas materials

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Syria's permanent representative to OPCW, Ambassador Milad Atieh speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, Thursday, Feb. 2, 2023. Atieh on Thursday dismissed the global chemical weapons watchdog's statement that investigators found "reasonable grounds to believe" the air force dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas on the city of Douma in 2018. A picture of Syrian President Bashar Assad hangs on the wall. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)

Syria slams chemical watchdog report on 2018 attack

By Samar Kassaballi and Kareem Chehayeb - Associated Press

FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Majority of nations approve suspending Syria’s OPCW rights

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FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. An investigation by the global chemical weapons watchdog found “reasonable grounds to believe” that a Syrian air force military helicopter dropped a chlorine cylinder on a Syrian town in 2018, sickening 12 people, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said Monday, April 12, 2021.(AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Syria rejects watchdog investigation into 2018 gas attack

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Investigation finds Syria likely behind 2018 chlorine attack

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Russia and West spar over vote to punish Syria over weapons

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

US: Russia blocks Syria chemical weapons use accountability

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

Russia and West clash over Syria chemical weapons sanctions

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - This Wednesday, March 21, 2018 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands. The global chemical weapons watchdog says that two investigations into alleged attacks in Syria in 2016 and 2018 couldn't establish that chemical weapons were used in either case. The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons issued two reports Friday, Oct. 2, 2020 by its Fact-Finding Mission into attacks in Saraqib in the Idlib region on Aug. 1, 2016, and in Aleppo on Nov. 24, 2018. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Chemical weapons watchdog criticizes Syria over 19 issues

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - This Friday May 5, 2017 file photo shows the headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands. Russia came under renewed pressure to explain the nerve agent attack on opposition figure Alexei Navalny as the annual meeting of the global chemical weapons watchdog got underway Monday Nov. 30, 2020, amid measures aimed at reining in the spread of the coronavirus. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong, File)

Russia under renewed pressure to explain Navalny poisoning

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

In this photo posted on the Instagram account of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, Navalny, center, poses for a photo with his wife Yulia and their son Zahar in an unknown location in Germany. (Alexei Navalny's Instagram Account via AP)

Russian envoy hits back at calls for Navalny investigation

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

A handout photo published by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny on his instagram account on Wednesday, Sept. 23, 2020. German doctors say Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny released from hospital after poisoning treatment. Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been released from a Berlin hospital after more than a month's treatment for poisoning, with doctors now believing that a “complete recovery” from the nerve agent is possible, the facility said Wednesday Sept. 23. (Navalny instagram via AP)

Germany: OPCW confirms nerve agent used in Navalny poisoning

By DAVID RISING and MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

OPCW probes couldn’t prove chemical use in 2 Syria attacks

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Russia clashes with Europeans over Syria chemical weapons

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo released Monday Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks in Damascus, Syria. The global chemical weapons watchdog issued a report Wednesday 'April 8, 2020, blaming the Syrian air force for a series of chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 and OPCW Director-General Fernando Arias said it is now up to the organization, “the United Nations Secretary-General, and the international community as a whole to take any further action they deem appropriate and necessary.”(SANA FILE via AP)

Syria denies its air force is behind 2017 chemical attacks

By ALBERT AJI - Associated Press

FILE - In this file photo dated Tuesday, April 2, 2019, Fernando Arias, Director-General of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) speaks during talks in Moscow, Russia. The global chemical weapons watchdog issued a report Wednesday April 8, 2020, blaming the Syrian air force for chemical attacks using sarin and chlorine in late March 2017 on the central town of Ltamenah, and Arias said it is now up to the organization, “the United Nations Secretary-General, and the international community as a whole to take any further action they deem appropriate and necessary.” (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko, FILE)

Watchdog: Syrian air force responsible for chemical attacks

By MIKE CORDER - Associated Press

Chemical weapons watchdog report criticizes leaks

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In this photo released on Monday Nov. 9, 2019 by the Syrian official news agency SANA, Syrian President Bashar Assad, right, speaks during an interview with Monica Maggioni, left, the CEO of Italy's Rai News 24, in Damascus, Syria. Assad said in an interview aired Monday that the global chemical weapons watchdog has faked and falsified a report over an attack near the capital Damascus last year &quot;just because the Americans wanted them to do so.&quot; (SANA via AP)

Syria’s Assad: OPCW faked a report on attack near Damascus

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