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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 (OPCW) supported a decision to immediately revoke Syria’s privileges at the agency. The proposal w...

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 governing body - the Conference of State Parties which includes countries like United States, France, and ...

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 report from the OPCW’s Investigation and Identification Team, published on 8 April 2020, found reason...

UNSC Watch: India Joins Russia, China in Disputing OPCW's 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 the investigative report of the global chemical weapons watchdog that accused the Syrian military of ...