Syria chemical weapons

Qatar, Ireland accuse Israel of using chemical weapons on Palestinians, demand watchdog probe use

Qatar and Ireland demanded that the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) investigate Israel's use of chemical weapons in Gaza and the West Bank.

NOVEMBER 26, 2025|ByTOBIAS HOLCMAN

Qatar's Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim Al-Thani, attends the preparatory ministerial meeting for emergency Arab-Islamic summit in Doha, Qatar September 14, 2025.

CHILDREN HOLD flags next to a sculpture of Druze warrior Sultan Pasha al-Atrash after Syrian rebels announced the ousting of president Bashar Assad, in the Druze village of Majdal Shams, Golan Heights, earlier this month.

OPCW estimates over 100 chemical weapons sites still active in Syria

In the Syrian civil war’s earliest days, Assad’s government only disclosed the locations of 27 sites to the OPCW.

APRIL 10, 2025|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF

Damage around Qamishli International Airport area, in Syria, December 10, 2024

Global watchdog convenes emergency session on Syria’s chemical weapons

The OPCW has previously documented multiple instances of the Syrian Armed Forces deploying chlorine gas during the country’s civil war, findings consistently denied by the Assad regime.

DECEMBER 16, 2024|ByTHE MEDIA LINE

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 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.

DECEMBER 12, 2024|ByREUTERS

Assad behind April 4 chemical attack, French intelligence confirms

Among the elements found in the samples were hexamine, a hallmark of sarin produced by the Syrian government.

APRIL 26, 2017ByREUTERS

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.

Russia complains to US over exclusion from Syria chemical probe

Trump said last week that relations with Moscow "may be at an all-time low."

APRIL 22, 2017ByREUTERS

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov shakes hands with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson during a news conference following their talks in Moscow, Russia, April 12, 2017.

Comment: The bizarre world of the Assad apologists club

The underlying reality of the Assad Apologists Club is that it primarily sees Syrians as not deserving of the same rights people in London or New York enjoy.

APRIL 12, 2017BySETH J. FRANTZMAN

A Syrian national flag flutters as the ruins of the historic city of Palmyra are seen in the background, in Homs Governorate, Syria April 1, 2016.

Analysis: Trump's strikes on Syria and the muddled strategy behind them

While US President Donald Trump has made a bold decision in ordering the airstrike on Syria following the chemical attack, what policy, if any, stands behind the move?

APRIL 11, 2017ByMICHAEL WILNER