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2 Min Read FILE PHOTO: The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is pictured in The Hague, Netherlands, October 4, 2018. REUTERS/Piroschka van de Wouw AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Syria on Wednesday was stripped of its voting rights by member states at the global chemical weapons watchdog after its forces were found to have repeatedly used poison gas during the civil war. A majority of nations voting at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons ...

Chemical weapons watchdog voted on Wednesday after Bashar al-Assad's government found guilty of repeatedly using chemical weapons during 10-year civil war

The 1997 Chemical Weapons Convention prohibits the use of all chemicals on the battlefield Syria was found to have used poison gas during its civil war on multiple occasions by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Wednesday. Due to this, the country has been stripped of its voting rights by member states of the chemical weapons watchdog, immediately revoking the country’s privileges. 46 out of the 193 member countries initiated the proposal on the OPCW’s govern...

20 April 2021 On 12 April 2021, the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) released its second report investigating and identifying those responsible for chemical weapons use in Syria. The report concluded that there were reasonable grounds to believe that the Syrian Arab Air Force carried out a chlorine attack on eastern Saraqib on 4 February 2018. This is yet another example of the Assad regime breaching its obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention. The first rep...

UNSC Watch: India Joins Russia, China in Disputing OPCWs Latest Report on Syria The OPCW has claimed that a Syrian Air Force helicopter had dropped at least one cylinder of chlorine gas on the town of Saraqib on the night of February 4, 2018. The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is pictured in The Hague, Netherlands, October 4, 2018. Photo: Reuters/Piroschka van de Wouw World3 hours ago New Delhi: India has for the first time directly questioned th...

This week while attention in the Middle East was focused on talks between Iran and other world powers to re-establish the Iran Nuclear Deal and get the

Friday, 16 April 2021 8:48 AM   [ Last Update: Friday, 16 April 2021 11:42 AM ] Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates, Faisal Mekdad (file photo) Syrian Minister of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates Faisal Mekdad has categorically dismissed the new report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), stating that the United States and its allies have turned the international watchdog into a tool to p...

Published 16 April 2021 The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) on Monday released the findings of the second report by the OPCW Investigation and Identification Team (IIT). IIT concludes that units of the Syrian Arab Air Force used chemical weapons in Saraqib on 4 February 2018.Since 2011, the year the civil war in Syria began, the Assad regime has launched atleast 336 chemical attacks, using Sarin and chlorine, against Sunni civilians. The Organization for the Prohibi...

Turkey: Call to hold accountable those responsible for Syria chemical attacks Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu in Doha, Qatar on 11 March 2021 [Cem Özdel/Anadolu Agency] April 15, 2021 at 9:15 am The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs has reiterated its call to hold accountable those responsible for the chemical attack launched by the Syrian regime forces on the city of Saraqib, northwestern Syria, in 2018. The Turkish ministry was commenting on the second report by the Internati...

Atrocity Alert No. 248: Myanmar (Burma), Ethiopia and Syria Format UN HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS WARNS MYANMAR COULD BECOME THE NEXT SYRIA On Friday, 9 April, at least 82 civilians were killed by Myanmar’s security forces in the city of Bago, about 90 kilometers (56 miles) northeast of Yangon. During their assault on anti-coup protesters in the city, the security forces used assault rifles, heavy machine guns, rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and mortar fire. There were also r...