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Ottawa Citizen
April 18, 2018
With the benefit of several days' hindsight, one might have thought that the hysteria attending to the largely performative, perfunctory and pinprick 70-minute air strikes that the United States, Britain and France carried out on Syrian targets last Friday night would have subsided somewhat by now. For a whileÃâà...
Express.co.uk
April 18, 2018
Mr Davies said: “A Syrian doctor in Swansea approached me to say that his wife's family... were under a gas attack where their two-year-old died in front of them. “He's now telling me doctors in Douma are saying Syrians, at the point of a gun, are saying, 'unless you give a testimony, doctor, that there wasn'tÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
April 18, 2018
Many theories have been brought forth by international observers in the aftermath of a suspected chemical attack on Syria's Douma, including one that suggested Assad bowed down to pressure from the minority Alawite group of which the Syrian president belongs to. A couple of days before the UnitedÃâà...
NBC Bay Area
April 18, 2018
The U.N.-mandated Independent International Commission on Syria has documented more than 30 chemical attacks in Syria between 2013 and the end of 2017 — at least 25 of them carried out by the Syrian military, the commission says. For the rest, it had insufficient evidence to determine the perpetrator.
Press Herald
April 18, 2018
DAMASCUS, Syria — Syrian media said international chemical weapons inspectors on Tuesday entered the town of Douma, where an alleged poison gas attack was carried out earlier this month, but a Syrian diplomat said later that only a U.N. security team visited the Damascus suburb. The reportedÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
The US, UK and France have blamed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime for the attack and together carried out airstrikes over the weekend in response, with the support of a number of other Western nations. Both Syria and its powerful ally, Russia, deny a chemical attack took place, and Russia hasÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
Inspectors from the global chemical weapons watchdog have been unable to access sites controlled by Russia and the Syrian regime in the town of ... According to Petter Lycke, Sweden's representative at the OPCW executive council, Syria and Russia told the inspectors that their safety could not beÃâà...
CNBC
April 16, 2018
Trump ordered targeted military action in Syria late Friday, following an alleged chemical weapons attack by Syrian President Bashar Assad that killed ... Garamendi, who was briefed on the apparent chemical attack in Syria by Mattis, said the administration needs to form a strategy to ensure something likeÃâà...
Haaretz
April 16, 2018
"It is long overdue that this council condemns the Syrian government for its reign of chemical terror and demands international accountability for those responsible ... Syria joined the OPCW, the organisation tasked with monitoring adherence to the 1997 convention, in 2013 after a sarin gas attack that killedÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 16, 2018
... chemical attacks. The Syrian government took control of Douma after the alleged chemical attack and the surrender of rebel forces. It has since deployed its security forces in the town. ___. 3:55 p.m.. Turkey's foreign minister has rejected a claim by France's president that the weekend's airstrikes on SyriaÃâà...
BBC News
April 16, 2018
Russia has denied interfering with evidence at the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria which led to Saturday's military intervention by the US, the UK and France. In an interview for ... The US says 105 missiles were launched and it believes none were intercepted by Syrian defences. It saysÃâà...
BBC News
April 16, 2018
This is the story of Masa, who survived the suspected chemical attack in Syria, in her own words. Speaking on Sunday alongside her mother, she described how she and her family were hiding in a basement when a "barrel" dropped. 4h ago. Share this with Facebook Ãâ÷ Share this with Twitter Ãâ÷ Share this with MessengerÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
April 16, 2018
A major Syrian chemical attack in Ghouta changed the course of the war in 2013. It was met by the threat of United States military action in Syria, but that remained that: a threat. But US President Donald Trump's administration responded in 2017 with missile strikes inside Syria. And as Osama Bin JavaidÃâà...
Reuters TV
April 15, 2018
I think that obviously this was cumulative, he, Assad, had been using chemical weapons multiple times, but more so this was about the security council resolutions. We had, up until this point, had six different resolutions that would have dealt with investigative mechanisms for chemical weapons and RussiaÃâà...
The Guardian
April 15, 2018
UN chemical weapons investigators were set on Sunday to begin examining the scene of a chemical attack in the Syrian city of Douma, which had ... Washington, London and Paris are due on Monday to table a UN resolution calling for an independent investigation into chemical attacks in Syria that wouldÃâà...
Fortune
April 15, 2018
The U.S. has previously expelled Russian diplomats and sanctioned Russia, a Syrian ally, for a suspected nerve-agent attack against a former spy in Britain and other actions. The U.S., France and the U.K. launched military strikes Friday night on what the Pentagon said were three Syrian chlorine and sarinÃâà...
CNN
April 15, 2018
They are from Douma, on the outskirts of Damascus, where an alleged chemical attack by the Syrian regime took place last Saturday. The town's population had already seen its share of chemical attacks, barrel bombs, air and ground assaults over six years of besiegement by government forces.
Vox
April 14, 2018
The Trump administration has offered mixed messages about its commitment to attacking Syria after chemical attacks. “We are prepared to sustain this response until the Syrian regime stops its use of prohibited chemical agents,” President Donald Trump said from the White House on Friday night. But soonÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
A suspected chemical attack that killed dozens of Syrians in Douma, a rebel-held town near Damascus, drew promises of retaliation from President Trump ... at least 34 chemical attacks since 2013, many of which it said used chlorine or sarin, a nerve agent, and were conducted by the Syrian government.
Telegraph.co.uk
April 4, 2018
I have seen the effect of every type of weapon on the human body, from bullets and bombs, to chemical attacks. Some days I ... We've had to endure unrelenting attacks including bombs in populated areas, the destruction of our schools and hospitals, and a devastating chemical attack that killed hundreds.
The National
April 3, 2018
On his wedding anniversary on Wednesday, Abdulhamid Yusuf will have nothing to mark but a chemical attack that killed his wife and their two babies. At least 80 people died on April 4 last year when war planes dropped sarin gas on his hometown of Khan Sheikhoun in north-west Syria. The chemicalÃâà...
gulfnews.com
April 3, 2018
Abdulhamid Yusuf, who lost 19 members of his family, including his wife and two children, visits the graves of his relatives in Khan Shaykhun, on March 31, 2018. On his wedding anniversary this year, 29-year-old Syrian widower Abdulhamid Yusuf will have nothing to remember but a chemical attack thatÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 27, 2018
Damascus has revealed that a number of foreign specialists are working on staging a chemical attack which will be extensively covered by Western media ... Another false flag "incident" featuring chemical weapons in Syria may take place in Idlib province, where terrorists are operating at the instigation ofÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 23, 2018
The potential attacks – which are largely conditioned as being in retaliation to any alleged chemical attack – also encourage militants to launch false flag chemical provocations to draw in external military support. Despite unverified reports of the US planning to attack the Syrian Army near the al-Tanf baseÃâà...
Sputnik International
March 14, 2018
The Jaish al-Islam group planned a chemical attack in 2013 which could have opened the door to the US intervention and ouster of the legitimate Syrian government, a Syrian specialist on extremist groups told Sputnik. According to the specialist in the next 10-15 days the world will know the truth about theÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 11, 2018
The Syrian Civil Defence, a volunteer rescue group also known as the White Helmets, said the Syrian government hit Irbin with chlorine gas, phosphorus bombs and napalm. This is the second alleged chemical attack in a matter of days. On Wednesday night, activists in residential the town of HamouriyahÃâà...
Aljazeera.com
March 8, 2018
France has said it will introduce "intervention measures" if claims of a fresh Syrian government chemical attack in Eastern Ghouta prove to be true. ... claims that it no longer possesses chemical weapons, the area has witnessed several other smaller-scale chemical attacks in recent weeks, as Syrian andÃâà...
BBC News
March 7, 2018
The group earlier tweeted that "more 30 suffocation cases", including women and children, were reported following what it initially described as a "regime gas attack". The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) monitoring group, which uses a network of sources on the ground, said at theÃâà...
ArmyTimes.com
March 3, 2018
This photo provided by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, shows members of the Syrian Civil Defense group and civilians gathering to help survivors from a street attacked by airstrikes and shelling by Syrian governmentÃâà...
Daily Sabah
March 2, 2018
Macron, Trump call for immediate Syria cease-fire, vow to punish chemical attacks ... and U.S. presidents on Friday called for the "immediate" implementation of a cease-fire in Syria -- especially the besieged Eastern Ghouta enclave -- and said Russia must exert maximum pressure on the Syrian regime.
War on the Rocks
March 2, 2018
The process of identifying and holding accountable the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria, like the one on Sarmin, has been slow and frustrating. ... According to the humanitarian group Syrian American Medical Society, this was the seventh chemical attack of the year and the 197 of the war.
CBS News
February 22, 2018
But only hours later, according to doctors and witnesses, the Syrian dictatorship dropped another banned chemical weapon, a chlorine bomb. The worst of the chemical attacks came in 2013, when 1,400 civilians were killed by sarin near Damascus. In response, the U.S. and Russia pressed Syria to handÃâà...
Newsweek
February 13, 2018
A Syrian boy holds an oxygen mask over the face of an infant at a makeshift hospital following a reported gas attack on a rebel-held besieged town on ... in Syria in a town in eastern Ghouta, a beleaguered rebel enclave east of Damascus, an NGO accusing the regime of carrying out a new chemical attackÃâà...
CBS News
February 5, 2018
Haley accused Russia of shielding the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad from responsibility. ... The characteristics of recent alleged attacks suggest Syria is producing chemical weapons despite a 2013 deal to destroy its program, according to officials, who say it's "highly likely" that Syria keptÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The latest salvo in the seven-year war in Syria, an apparent chemical attack in the suburb of Douma at dusk on Saturday, has presented a new challenge to a ... But the strike had little practical effect, with Syrians using the airfield again within 24 hours, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights,Ãâà...
TIME
December 31, 1999
25, in the wake of a United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a 30-day ceasefire across Syria, activists in the rebel enclave of Eastern Ghouta outside Damascus reported a suspected chemical attack in the area of Sheifouniyeh. One infant boy died after exposure consistent with chlorine, according to the SyrianÃâà...
BBC News
December 31, 1999
More than 500 people have been killed since last week in Eastern Ghouta, where activists on Sunday reported a suspected poison gas attack. The foreign secretary said that while the West could not intervene to change the odds in favour of the rebels fighting Syrian President Bashar Assad's regime,Ãâà...
Aljazeera.com
December 31, 1999
Medics in Syria say a child has died and a dozen more are being treated after another suspected chlorine gas attack. Witnesses reported smelling the gas after an explosion in the rebel-held area of Eastern Ghouta. The Syrian government has denied using chemical weapons in the war. More than 500Ãâà...
