Syria s stockpile. Medical search. Frequent questions

NICOSIA, Cyprus: The last of Syria's acknowledged stockpile of chemical weapons has been handed over to Western governments for destruction, the organization charged with overseeing the elimination of such weapons said Monday.The final 8 percent of the 1,300-ton stockpile, which included mustard. (arabnews.com)
Aleppo, which suffered widespread destruction in Syria's civil war, was heavily damaged in the deadly 7.8-magnitude earthquake that hit Turkey and Syria last month. (timesofisrael.com)
Both have succeeded in neutralizing Syria's chemical deterrant, while ignoring Israeli and Egyptian stockpiles of chemical weapons. (alanhart.net)
Israeli General Staff Deputy Chief Major General Yair Naveh told a radio station that Syria's chemical weapons stockpile may end up in the hands of al-Qaeda or Hezbollah, Russia's RIA Novosti reports today. (pakalertpress.com)
This cooperation resulted in the elimination of all Syria's stockpiles and the destruction of the relevant production facilities, which was confirmed by the Head of the Joint Mission to Eliminate Chemical Weapons in Syria Sigrid Kaag in her briefing to the Security Council in June 2014 [and] … documents issued by the Technical Secretariat of the Prohibition Organization," Jaafari said in a statement. (presstv.ir)
The United States however has dismissed the statement saying it believes that Syria's chemical weapons stockpiles remain under government control. (foreignpolicy.com)
Syria's chemical weapon stockpile is reported to be one of the largest in the Middle East. (wisconsinproject.org)
Despite the size of Syria's stockpile, and its recent use against civilians, developments since the August 21st attack have been encouraging. (wisconsinproject.org)
In order to accomplish this task, they will require the close cooperation of Syria's Scientific Studies and Research Center (SSRC), which built and oversees the stockpile. (wisconsinproject.org)
Meanwhile, though Syria's stockpile of chemical weapons has been drastically reduced by international disarmament experts, it still hosts production plants that are slated for elimination. (newsday.com)
Syria's deputy ambassador to the UN, Mounzer Mounzer, said Syria had fulfilled its commitment under the Chemical Weapons Convention and eliminated its stockpile in record time. (newsday.com)
Obama Admin May Have Known Syria Still Had Chemical Weapons - The Obama administration may have known that it failed to eliminate Syria's chemical weapons well in advance of Tuesday's deadly attack. (memeorandum.com)

BEIRUT: Syrian rebels and activists have launched a second "revolution" nearly three years into the uprising against President Bashar Assad, this time against a powerful Al-Qaeda affiliate accused of brutal abuses.Battles have raged for two days across northern Syria since the newly formed Army. (arabnews.com)
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Wednesday urged Syria 's regime against using its stockpile of chemical weapons, warning of "huge consequences" if Bashar Assad resorts to such weapons of mass destruction. (ynetnews.com)
The Assad regime says it is willing to cooperate with Moscow's plan, offering to open up its stockpiles for inspection and eventual destruction, and agreeing to sign an international ban on chemical weapons. (theverge.com)
and that the only way to bring stability and peace to Syria is going to be for Assad to step down and - and to move forward on a political transition. (fitsnews.com)
Governments in Paris, London and Washington have already called for sanctions against perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria, including against the government of President Bashar al-Assad. (aljazeera.com)
Meanwhile the ruling Assad dynasty stockpiled missiles and poison gas. (prospect.org)
A reminder: Hezbollah stepped up its role this spring in Syria after months of low-profile support for the Assad regime. (prospect.org)
Hezbollah's escalation in Syria has, however, finally put to rest the idea reportedly entertained by some top Israeli government officials earlier in the war: that it would be best if Assad defeated the rebels because he is "the devil we know. (prospect.org)
In spite of the disarmament deal, another large-scale chemical attack reveals a grim truth: Assad has retained a secret stockpile. (apple.com)
In Geneva, the US and Russia strike a deal to destroy the Assad regime's chemical weapons stockpile. (apple.com)
Cameron said: "There remain differences over sequencing and the shape of how the transition takes place, but it is welcome that President Putin has been explicit that he does not want Assad remaining in charge in Syria. (alanhart.net)
I also think Lavrov was correct when he recently indicated, by obvious implication, that behind closed doors American and Western European leaders are beginning to understand that they may now need Assad and his ruthless war machine if the forces of violent Islamic fundamentalism are to be prevented from having a permanent base in Syria from which to create regional and even global havoc. (alanhart.net)
Israeli Defense minister Ehud Barak added to the propaganda offensive aimed at Syria today when he said arch nemesis Hezbollah will receive chemical weapons after the al-Assad regime falls. (pakalertpress.com)
Prior to Naveh's remarks, Ayoob Kara , a senior member of Netanyahu's ruling Likud Party, told Israel Radio that the regime of Bashar al-Assad in Syria has used "chemical weapons against men, women, and children" over the last few months. (pakalertpress.com)
In January, it was reported that MI6, the CIA, and British SAS are in Syria working with the Free Syrian Army and the Syrian National Council to overthrow the al-Assad regime. (pakalertpress.com)
But in an astonishing irony that only the conflict in Syria could produce, American and allied cruise missiles would be degrading the capability of the regime's military units to the benefit of the al-Qaeda-linked militants fighting Assad-the same militants whom U.S. drones are attacking regularly in places such as Yemen. (motherjones.com)
Imagine that you are a White House adviser and you have been asked to calibrate a military intervention that will send an unmistakeable message to Assad that his use of CW was a serious error and persuade him that any such action in the future would be unacceptably costly to Syria generally and to the Assad government in particular. (motherjones.com)
Carla Del Ponte, of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, has suggested chemical weapons were used by opposition fighters rather than the Assad regime. (foreignpolicy.com)
This is nothing but a fig leaf to cover Obama's own idiotic "red line" ultimatum to President Bashar al-Assad of Syria on chemical weapons. (anncoulter.com)
The United States and Russia pressured Assad to give up his stockpiles of nerve agents and they were ostensibly destroyed under international supervision in 2014. (telegraph.co.uk)
Tulsi Gabbard 'skeptical' Assad regime behind gas attack … (D-Hawaii) said Friday she was "skeptical" that Syrian leader Bashar Assad's regime was behind this week's chemical weapons attack in northern Syria. (memeorandum.com)

His address came hours after the Syrian government acknowledged its chemical weapons stockpile and expressed more detailed backing for the Russian plan. (democracynow.org)
ANKARA: Turkey is constructing 2.5-km-long twin walls at a border crossing with Syria to increase security at the frontier following three deadly bombings this year.The concrete walls will be built on either side of the road leading from the Turkish side of the crossing at Cilvegozu to the Syrian. (arabnews.com)
The Syrian president vowed in an interview with Russia Today last month that he would never be forced into exile and that he would "live and die in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
The BBC's source also did not question the fact that the Syrian government handed over all of its 1,180 tons of declared chemical warfare stockpiles under the threat of US airstrikes in 2013. (rt.com)
Syria and Iran accused Israel of criminal behavior after Israeli Air Force jets allegedly carried out an airstrike at the airport in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo in the early hours of Tuesday morning. (timesofisrael.com)
The last airstrike in Syria attributed to Israel was last month, when Syrian state media said an airstrike targeted a residential neighborhood in Damascus, killing five people and leaving 15 others hurt. (timesofisrael.com)
Additionally, he referred to what's happening in Syria as "a blemish on the international community generally," and insisted that "we've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to protect the Syrian people. (fitsnews.com)
He insisted he did not 'want to see' British troops sent in to Syria, but said a clear message had to be sent to the Syrian government. (dailymail.co.uk)
Another Hezbollah effort in Syria-training Shi'ite and Alawite militias-is "preparation for the possible collapse of the Syrian regime," says the Amit Center report. (prospect.org)
Elsewhere in his statement, Jaafari held Western governments responsible for the suffering of the Syrian people, citing their direct involvement in the terrorist, political, economic and financial war waged against Syria. (presstv.ir)
As they claim their adherence to noble principles and sublime values in all issues related to the situation in Syria, these states commit the ugliest crimes against Syrian people," he said. (presstv.ir)
When President Barack Obama announced that he would seek congressional authorization for a limited military strike against the Syrian regime in retaliation for its presumed use of chemical weapons, he turned the ongoing op-ed tussle over Syria into an official debate . (motherjones.com)
Just when the red line charade was reaching fever pitch - but still buried in the sand - and he had to choose between the US "exercising restraint" or "directly involving itself" in the Syrian war, (see The Syria-Iran red line show , Asia Times Online, May 2, 2013) President Obama was saved by Bibi Netanyahu's Israeli government. (counterpunch.org)
THE HAGUE, Netherlands - Syria and its close ally Russia faced harsh criticism on Thursday at a meeting of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons following an investigation that blamed Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime for a sarin attack that killed about 100 people in April. (militarytimes.com)
The Syrian military controls a substantial stockpile of chemical warfare agents and the means of delivering them. (military-quotes.com)
Other shipments went by truck and storage payment was made to Syria through an arms smuggling front company run by Syrian Intelligence: SES International. (floppingaces.net)
The JIM had attributed six chemical weapons attacks to the Syrian government and the Islamic State group before it was dissolved, blaming four on Syria - including the Khan Sheikhoun attack - and two on Islamic State. (newsday.com)
Syrian military officials, and international backer Russia, argue they hit a rebel chemical weapons stockpile and that the militants themselves are to blame. (irishtimes.com)
Iraqis entering Syria now need a visa from the Syrian consulate or embassy in the country they are currently in. (joshualandis.com)
After the chemical attacks in Ghouta, the United Nations Security Council demanded that the Syrian government destroy its chemical stockpiles, weapons, and production capacity. (hrw.org)
The clashes came as the European Union further tightened sanctions against Syria, strengthening an arms embargo, blacklisting nearly 30 people and companies associated with the regime, and banning the Syrian national airline from landing in EU countries. (voanews.com)

President Obama has asked Congress to delay its vote on authorizing military force in "Syria"http://www.democracynow.org/topics/syria while the United States weighs a potential diplomatic breakthrough with Russia. (democracynow.org)
President Obama's plan to launch a military strike against Syria was unexpectedly put on hold this week, after Russia announced a proposal to place Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons under international control. (theverge.com)
The US and Russia are still working to get rid of their stockpiles, which are much larger,' says Dan Kaszeta, a London-based security consultant and former officer in the US Chemical Corps. (theverge.com)
Prior to the emergence of ISIS as a major force in Syria, the country's chemical warfare arsenals were successfully evacuated and destroyed on a special vessel in the Mediterranean Sea following a deal negotiated with Russia and the US, which both took part in this operation. (rt.com)
Russia and Lakhdar Brahimi, the very experienced UN Special Envoy to Syria and chief mediator, insist that Iran must be represented to improve the prospects of the Geneva talks being something less than a complete failure. (alanhart.net)
U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has arrived in Russia to meet with President Vladimir Putin for talks on the crisis in Syria. (foreignpolicy.com)
This includes nearly all of the U.S. stocks and over half the largest stockpile in the world (Russia). (strategypage.com)
Russia on Monday accused Western countries of pressuring U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon into an unwarranted expansion of the U.N. investigation to include separate alleged chemical weapon incidents in Syria, Reuters reported. (military-quotes.com)
In September, the United States and Russia jointly developed a framework for destroying the stockpile. (wisconsinproject.org)
As I noted last week , the Islamist advance into Iraq from Syria has forced the U.S., Iran and Russia into further loose cooperation to save Baghdad from total collapse. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Following the US-Russia deal on Syria, pro-Israel groups in Washington suspend lobbying on Syria . (americantaskforce.org)
Ariel Ben Solomon says following the US-Russia deal on Syria, Iran will seek a similar arrangement. (americantaskforce.org)

Syria regularly claims to have intercepted Israeli missiles, though military analysts doubt such assertions. (timesofisrael.com)
More broadly, there is a growing regional conflict with Iran, which consists of a war in Yemen (including the Houthi use of ballistic missiles against Saudi Arabia), an escalating conflict with Israel in Syria, a growth of Shia militia forces in Iraq, targeted assassinations, and cyberattacks. (csis.org)
Kerry's visit has come days after Israeli airstrikes on weapons facilities in Syria targeted missiles it says were intended to be transferred to Hezbollah. (foreignpolicy.com)
The president doesn't need congressional approval to shoot a few missiles into Syria, nor - amazingly - has he said he'll abide by such a vote, anyway. (anncoulter.com)

This satellite photo from Planet Labs PBC shows the damage after an alleged Israeli strike targeting the Aleppo International Airport in Aleppo, Syria, September 7, 2022. (timesofisrael.com)
Iran's expanding presence in Syria, for example, has led to concerns among Israeli leaders, who have authorized hundreds of military strikes against missile and other targets over the past few years. (csis.org)
1 Finally, it compiles and analyzes a data base of Israeli attacks against targets in Syria, which provides a useful indicator of Iranian activity. (csis.org)
The first thing that a local Syria-watcher or ex-general will tell you is that the Israeli government hasn't managed to decide what it wants to see happen in Syria. (prospect.org)
For far too long he was listening to those (Zionism's verbal hit men in particular) who were telling him that regime change in Syria, assisted as required by American military force and therefore on American-and-Israeli terms, was a necessary step on the road to regime change in Iran. (alanhart.net)
The bloodshed in Syria is an "Israeli Project" in making for decades, according to Hersh Seymour. (alanhart.net)
He said Israeli doctors treating wounded on Syria-Turkey have documented the injuries. (pakalertpress.com)
These states destroyed Iraq under false pretexts and launched a misleading campaign against Syria, but at the same time sponsor and support the Israeli chemical and nuclear arsenal and defend Israeli violations of all international conventions. (presstv.ir)
The strike should not be so great that it inspires reckless behavior by other states or parties in the region - specifically it should not provoke retaliation, for example, by either Hezbollah or Syria against Israeli targets. (motherjones.com)

In addition, Sri Lanka is the latest State to have completed destruction of its stockpile in 2021. (un.org)
The United States successfully completed the destruction of nearly 90% of its original chemical weapons stockpile in January 2012. (medscape.com)
US public law mandates stockpile destruction by December 31, 2023. (medscape.com)
Despite ongoing destruction of US stockpiles, the chemical threat from sulfur mustard remains, due to the low cost and availability of these agents. (medscape.com)

Syria has been given until the middle of 2014 to destroy its chemical weapons stockpile. (blogspot.com)

"We've seen them use it on at least four separate occasions on both sides of the border - both in Iraq and Syria," the official was quoted as saying. (rt.com)
Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons adviser to NGOs working in Syria and Iraq, welcomed the findings but said the report should had been made released earlier. (aljazeera.com)
ƒ"š‚§ƒ"š‚ Is it because Syria like Iraq, Libya and Iran, had followed an economic model that was more state-centered? (lankaweb.com)
After acknowledging the bad faith arguments and general unreliability of the right, Jones sallies forth to argue - as if Iraq, Libya and Syria never happened - that the left must not avoid good causes just because bad people support them. (dissidentvoice.org)
There has been an increase in the size and capabilities of militias supported by the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps-Quds Force in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen collectively. (csis.org)
One of Saddam's generals, General Georges Sada, has come forward with claims that Saddam moved his "special weapons" out of Iraq, to Syria in late summer 2002. (floppingaces.net)
Before the commotion of visas began, and before we started needing a renewal, we decided to go to one of the border crossings, cross into Iraq, and come back into Syria- everyone was doing it. (joshualandis.com)
As of 31 December 2022, 8 of the 22 Member States in shortage in the global vaccine stockpile has made WHO the region - Afghanistan, Islamic Republic of Iran, Iraq, to temporarily limit all reactive OCV campaigns to a Lebanon, Pakistan, Somalia, Syria, and Yemen - were single dose until vaccine supplies stabilize (7) . (who.int)

When you enter a civil war in a place that's not your own, you only pay a price," says Tel Aviv University professor Eyal Zisser, a leading expert on Syria, "and Hezbollah is discovering that. (prospect.org)
Nasrallah has forfeited his image as a hero in the Arab world, and the Resistance Axis of Hamas, Hezbollah, Iran, and Syria has come undone . (prospect.org)
Last week Hamas-a Sunni group tied to the Muslim Brotherhood- demanded that Hezbollah withdraw from Syria. (prospect.org)
On top of it, Israel wants to drag Syria, Hezbollah and ultimately Iran into all out war. (counterpunch.org)

Last August, Syria accused Israel of being behind two consecutive airstrikes at the Aleppo International Airport and a site near the Damascus Airport, as Israel was said to be ramping up its efforts to target airports to counter Tehran's growing use of commercial flights to bring military supplies into the country. (timesofisrael.com)
Syria strikes: Site of chemical attack hit again - (CNN)New airstrikes have targeted a town in northwest Syria that was hit by a deadly chemical attack earlier this week, activists said. (memeorandum.com)

Israel views Iran's expansion throughout Syria as a continued threat to its national security, and has conducted these strikes across a broad range of targets in an effort to curb Iran's forces in the region. (timesofisrael.com)

Syria is believed to have hundreds, if not thousands, of tons of chemical agents, including mustard gas, a blistering agent, and the more lethal nerve agents sarin and VX, experts say. (ynetnews.com)
Western powers have expressed support for the JIM and the team's report, which also concluded that the extremist Islamic State group was responsible for a mustard gas attack in Syria at Um Hosh, in Aleppo in September 2016. (militarytimes.com)

The unpublished U.N. report details 40 shipments of prohibited missile parts and materials from North Korea to Syria between 2012 and 2017, including acid-resistant tiles, valves and thermometers, according to the newspaper. (latimes.com)

America and Obama and some other nations have all got into a frenzy citing the use of chemicals in Syria with no proof that chemicals were used by President Assad's Government. (lankaweb.com)
Moscow and Washington have continued to collaborate on their September 2013 agreement to dismantle President Bashar al-Assad's chemical weapons stockpile. (worldpoliticsreview.com)

On Monday, the UN Security Council called for the creation of an inquiry that will seek to prosecute those behind chemical weapons attacks in Syria. (rt.com)
Israel is believed to have carried out hundreds of strikes on targets inside government-controlled parts of Syria in recent years, including attacks on the Damascus and Aleppo airports, but it rarely acknowledges or discusses the operations. (timesofisrael.com)
A joint investigative mechanism was set up by the international chemical weapons watchdog and the UN to investigate reports of chemical attacks in Syria," Al Jazeera's Mike Hanna, reporting from the UN headquarters in New York, said. (aljazeera.com)
But this week there were warnings that British nationals joining the fighting in Syria were being radicalised by violent Islamist groups and could launch terror attacks when they return home. (dailymail.co.uk)
But no one has been held accountable for chemical attacks in Syria, which some nongovernmental organizations, such as Human Rights Watch, estimate number as high as 85 between August 2013 and February 2018. (newsday.com)
Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the UN, bemoaned the dismantling of a panel, known as the Joint Investigative Mechanism, that was tasked with identifying who had conducted chemical weapons attacks in Syria. (newsday.com)
As a local journalist in northern Syria, Dagheem has covered countless air strikes and several suspected chlorine gas attacks. (irishtimes.com)

However, another photo shows a stockpile of aircraft munitions and weapons near a hangar intact. (rt.com)
You can hire mobile units to destroy chemical weapons (including those in munitions) from Eisenmann Corp. near Stuttgart, Germany if the US Army won't share its mobile units with Syria or with its own chemical weapons activities in Blue Grass, Kentucky and Pueblo, Colorado. (blogspot.com)

Syrians dig a grave to bury the bodies of victims of a a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, Idlib province, Syria, on Wednesday. (irishtimes.com)

These points were incorporated into a UN Security Council resolution on Syria adopted on September 27th. (wisconsinproject.org)
There can be no dispute that Syria used banned chemical weapons, violated its obligations under the chemical weapons convention , and ignored the urging of the UN Security Council. (telegraph.co.uk)

With the vast majority of Americans opposing a strike against Syria, President Obama has requested that Congress vote on his powers as commander in chief under the Constitution. (anncoulter.com)

But with Obama recognizing Congress' role in war-related decision-making, the ensuing debate in the House and Senate-and the external, surrounding debate that could well affect congressional deliberations-will shape how the United States responds to events in Syria . (motherjones.com)
Does anyone imagine that any of this would result from an Obama-led operation in Syria? (anncoulter.com)
Donald Trump is decisively moving on from his 2013 stance, when he repeatedly warned Barack Obama against intervening in Syria. (telegraph.co.uk)

It also analyzes satellite imagery of bases in countries like Syria, Lebanon, and Iran used by the IRGC-QF to better understand Iranian force posture and activities. (csis.org)
Now, Israel has one less worry to attack Syria and Lebanon. (alanhart.net)

Iran, an ally of Syria, condemned the strike, calling it a "crime against humanity. (timesofisrael.com)
And it would be different if an attack on Syria would so terrify other dictators in the region that they would instantly give up their WMDs - say, Iran abandoning its nuclear program. (anncoulter.com)
says 'Iran has to understand that Israel will not allow' military entrenchment in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told Russia's Minister of Defense Sergey Shoygu Tuesday that Israel will not allow Iran to entrench its military forces in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
Netanyahu warned the Russian defense minister that unless the deal is altered, Iran will be able to build up a stockpile of nuclear weapons within 8-10 years. (ynetnews.com)
A day after Shoygu concludes his visit, Lieberman will take off for Washington to meet with US Defense Secretary James Mattis, with Iran occupying the bulk of their focus and Trump's announcement of a new policy review of the US's approach to the Iranians and the situation in Syria. (ynetnews.com)
Iran is reportedly increasing its aid to the PFLP to reward its pro-Syria policies. (americantaskforce.org)
Avi Shilon says the US-Russian deal on Syria proves the success of Netanyahu's Iran policy. (americantaskforce.org)

The report comes after accusations from pro-opposition activists in Syria that government forces recently deployed chlorine gas in Shayfoniyeh, a town in the suburban Damascus enclave of eastern Ghouta, after an airstrike in which victims exhibited symptoms including eye irritation and breathing difficulties. (latimes.com)

Staffan de Mistura, the UN special envoy for Syria, suggested the timing was not coincidence, a "pattern" was emerging. (irishtimes.com)

The reality as it seemed to me at the time, and which Cameron put his own spin on, was that Putin had indicated that he could live with regime change in Syria if it happened by constitutional means . (alanhart.net)

Its numerous warships in the region and state-of-the-art missile defense in Syria can neutralize a US-led attack when launched. (21stcenturywire.com)
North Korean missile technicians have also reportedly been seen working at weapons facilities inside Syria. (latimes.com)

Chlorine's use as a weapon is prohibited under the 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention, which Syria joined in 2013. (aljazeera.com)

Syria is party to the 1925 Geneva Protocol banning chemical weapons in war. (ynetnews.com)
US intelligence has seen signs that Syria is moving materials inside chemical weapons facilities recently, though it is unsure what the movement means. (ynetnews.com)
Not only is Syria joining the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC), it is doing so in the middle of a war. (theverge.com)
Once Syria signs on to the CWC, it will have one month to provide a comprehensive inventory of its chemical weapons supplies and the facilities used to produce them. (theverge.com)
Given the unrest in Syria and heightened US concerns over weapons proliferation, many expect the international community to play an outsize role in moving the process forward. (theverge.com)
"We believe the decision made today is primarily preventive in nature and it will help to ensure that no toxic chemicals will be used as weapons in the future in Syria," he said. (rt.com)
The administration, however, argued against taking further action in Syria until better information is available about the use of chemical weapons there, and it remained cautious this week. (fitsnews.com)
In 2009, Syria denied it has a stockpile of chemical weapons. (pakalertpress.com)
Of course Syria has no chemical weapons. (pakalertpress.com)
Syria is one of seven non-signatories to the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) of 1993 and is also a party to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty . (pakalertpress.com)
Syria has not and will not use chemical weapons and does not basically possess them and is committed to cooperating" with the OPCW and its technical secretariat in a bid to settle all outstanding issues emanating from political manipulation and misleading media campaign, Jaafari stressed. (presstv.ir)
Since the August 21 chemical weapons attack outside Damascus , foreign policy experts, columnists, cable news commentators, bloggers, and others have been arguing over what to do about Syria, and it was hard to know how much any of this policy wonk combat mattered because the decision appeared to rest with one man, the commander in chief. (motherjones.com)
The problem is that Washington has lousy intel on where these chemical weapons are actually stockpiled. (counterpunch.org)
Russia's foreign ministry has criticized the West for politicizing the issue of chemical weapons in Syria. (foreignpolicy.com)
The OPCW has a team called Fact Finding Mission, which investigates whether chemical weapons have been used in Syria. (militarytimes.com)
In 2013, Syria accepted a Russian proposal to relinquish its chemical weapons stockpile and join the Chemical Weapons Convention. (militarytimes.com)
January 24, 2012: The United States has destroyed about 90 percent of its Cold War era chemical weapons stockpile. (strategypage.com)
But just to be on the safe side, everyone stockpiled lots of these weapons during World War II and the Cold War. (strategypage.com)
After the Cold War ended it was agreed that chemical weapons were more trouble than they were worth for military use and the enormous stockpiles were destroyed. (strategypage.com)
On the plus side, dealing with the Russian stockpiles has advanced the technology for destroying decrepit chemical weapons and produced lots of Russians with technical skills and a willingness to travel and apply these skills, for the right price. (strategypage.com)
Has Syria used chemical weapons? (military-quotes.com)
Israel is helping the U.S. to determine whether Syria has used chemical weapons.This is mainly because the United States is having a hard time conclusively determining if its "red line" on the use of chemical weapons in Syria has been crossed, due to a lack of credible intelligence and forensic evidence, the Washington Post reported on Sunday. (military-quotes.com)
Several news outlets reported today that Syria was taking preliminary steps to assemble its chemical weapons stockpiles. (undispatch.com)
Syria had signed the chemical weapons pact [in 2013]. (irishtimes.com)
The UN has called for an international investigation into the incident, likely the biggest since Syria signed the chemical weapons pact four years ago. (irishtimes.com)
An incendiary report that North Korea has been providing Syria with material that could be used to make chemical weapons marks the merging of a pair of dangerous storylines involving two of the world's prime powder kegs. (latimes.com)
State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Tuesday that the United States has "had concerns for a long time " about the possibility of North Korea providing chemical weapons components to Syria, although she said she had not seen the U.N. report and could not comment on it directly. (latimes.com)
The U.N. investigators' reported findings underscore a dual danger: Illicit shipments from North Korea could allow Syria to maintain and shore up a cache of chemical weapons, while North Korea gets a badly needed infusion of cash to continue racing toward its nuclear and ballistic goals. (latimes.com)
Syria was forced to join the 1993 United Nations Convention on Chemical Weapons after the attack on Ghouta. (telegraph.co.uk)
The Russian town of Pochep is home to a massive stockpile of chemical weapons, some decades old. (dirk-eckert.de)
Ralph Trapp, formerly with the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), the body that recently carried out the inspections in Syria, said: "One thing I can say for sure is they are not going to do it the normal way, where you have the time and leisure to consolidate the stockpile. (blogspot.com)
In response, Syria acceded to the Chemical Weapons Convention in September 2013. (hrw.org)
Syria says it will only use chemical weapons against a foreign attack and never on its own people. (voanews.com)
Foreign Ministry spokesman Jihad Makdissi said Monday during a news conference that the military is securely guarding the nation's chemical weapons stockpile. (voanews.com)
Mitch Ginsberg looks at Israel's stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons. (americantaskforce.org)
Jonathan Cook says Israel wants to focus on chemical weapons not the war in Syria. (americantaskforce.org)

On Sunday, the International Crisis Group issued an official statement on Syria. (motherjones.com)

Since then, monitors have accused the government and the jihadi group Isis of using chlorine in Syria. (irishtimes.com)
But North Korea and Syria, each led by a dictator who has repeatedly defied the West when it comes to banned weaponry, have a decades-long history of military ties, unbroken and perhaps even enhanced by the pariah status attained by each government over the years. (latimes.com)

We have applied sanctions on Syria. (fitsnews.com)

He allegedly did this under the guise of humanitarian aid flights to Syria after there was a dam burst in July, and the shipments were made on modified civilian planes, by pilots Sada knows personally. (floppingaces.net)
Valerie Amos, Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, at the seventh meeting of the Syria Humanitarian Forum, Geneva, Switzerland, Feb. 19, 2013 (U.N. photo by Jean-Marc Ferré). (worldpoliticsreview.com)

There was no comment from the Israel Defense Forces, in line with its policy of not generally commenting on air raids in Syria. (timesofisrael.com)
After the battering that it took in its 1973 war with Israel, Syria carefully kept the de facto border quiet. (prospect.org)
Nasrallah is absolutely correct that the key objective of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization-Gulf Cooperation Council-Israel coalition of the willing is to try to drag Syria into a total war. (counterpunch.org)
Egypt, Israel and Syria are holdouts, although the first two seem ready to negotiate over the topic. (dirk-eckert.de)

US does not have any legal authority for military intervention in Syria either. (lankaweb.com)
It craves a weak, chaotic Syria - deprived of advanced military technology. (counterpunch.org)
Tonight I ordered a targeted military strike on the airfield in Syria from where the chemical attack was launched . (telegraph.co.uk)

The original stockpile in Kentucky comprised 523 US tons of nerve and mustard agents in rockets and projectiles, with approximately 90 tons of that quantity consisting of mustard agent H in projectiles. (medscape.com)

Yet while the Geneva talks petered out in February, remnants of international cooperation over Syria have survived. (worldpoliticsreview.com)
Rami Khouri thinks a new global order may be being born in the Geneva talks on Syria. (americantaskforce.org)

To date, a total of 47 966 cases of COVID-19 have been reported in Syria, with approximately 2168 fatalities. (who.int)

On June 17, 2002, the Times of London reported that Iraqi nuclear centrifuge parts were being smuggled out of Syria-originally stored at the port of Tartus, they had been moved to Damascus International Airport and moved to points unknown from there-effectively corroborating Sada's story. (floppingaces.net)

Syria surrendered its entire chemical stockpile in 2013 to a mission led by the United Nations and the OPCW. (presstv.ir)
However, he added, some OPCW member states retained their hostile positions on Syria, increased political pressure and launched unilateral as well as tripartite acts of aggression against the Arab country. (presstv.ir)

After US Secretary of State John Kerry met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov Thursday, US officials said the White House is pushing Syria to accelerate this process , but experts say that controlling and destroying the country's supply will likely take years. (theverge.com)
There are basically three claims as to what happened to Saddam's WMD: they were flown to Syria, they were driven to Syria, and they were shipped out on Russian ships. (floppingaces.net)

It would be different if we knew that any action against Syria would not put al-Qaida or the Muslim Brotherhood in power, but rather would result in a functioning, peaceful democracy. (anncoulter.com)

All of that know-how and weaponry ended up flooding into Syria where the same Islamic extremists hoped to establish the seat of their new caliphate. (dissidentvoice.org)

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