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.

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

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

Global watchdog convenes emergency session on Syria’s chemical weapons

 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'


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."

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Assad vows not to let Tehran manipulate Syria's affairs: 'Iran has no ambitions in Syria'

Pressed on Iran's involvement in the conflict in 'Foreign Affairs' interview, Assad denies manipulation but does not answer allegations of Iranian missile facilities in Syria.

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad is seen during an interview to the American magazine Foreign Affairs in Damascus.

US Holocaust museum exhibits graphic photos of Syrian victims of Assad regime

The museum announced that it had obtained thousands of images which provide a terrifying glimpse into the Assad regime's campaign of torture and oppression. WARNING: Images are graphic.

Syrian refugee boy cries as he attends the funeral of five Free Syrian Army fighter near Idlib

Investigating the Ba’athist regime’s chlorine attacks

Analysis of the Syrian civil war leaves no room for surprise with respect to the regime’s chemical warfare campaign.

A Syrian boy holds unexploded cluster bombs in Aleppo.

Syria chemical weapons store attacked by rockets

Four of the rockets hit land and one fell in the sea; the chemical transports were not hit.

UN chemical weapons inspectors in Syria 370