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3/5/2025 11:18:41 AM
Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad al-Shaibani said he would take part in a meeting Wednesday of the international chemical weapons watchdog in the Netherlands, nearly three months after Bashar al-Assad's ouster.
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2/8/2025 1:53:13 PM
The head of the world's chemical weapons watchdog will meet Syria's new leader Saturday, in a first visit since the ouster of Bashar al-Assad, who was repeatedly accused of using such weapons during Syria's 13-year civil war.
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1/21/2025 10:55:37 PM
Two French investigating magistrates have issued an arrest warrant against ousted Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad for suspected complicity in war crimes, the second such move by France's judicial authorities, a source said on Tuesday.
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12/21/2024 8:22:58 PM
Cyprus stands ready to help eliminate Syria’s remaining chemical weapons stockpiles and to support a search for people whose fate remains unknown after more than a decade of war, the top Cypriot diplomat said Saturday.
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12/18/2024 11:10:36 AM
Russia has detained a suspect in the killing of the head of the army's chemical weapons division, investigators said Wednesday, a day after the general and his aide were killed by a blast in Moscow.
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12/17/2024 12:45:07 PM
The head of the Russian army's chemical weapons division was killed on Tuesday in a brazen attack in Moscow claimed by Kyiv -- the most senior military figure assassinated in Russia yet as the Kremlin's campaign in Ukraine drags on.
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12/11/2024 3:47:51 PM
The global chemical weapons watchdog will hold an emergency meeting on Thursday to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals.
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5/2/2024 11:20:19 AM
The US State Department accused Russia Wednesday of having used a chemical weapon against Ukrainian forces in violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention, while also announcing fresh sanctions against Moscow.
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8/27/2023 10:52:45 PM
Syria late on Saturday denied US and French allegations that the country used chemical weapons near Damascus in 2013.
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International
7/8/2023 11:21:56 AM
The last of the United States’ declared chemical weapons stockpile was destroyed at a sprawling military installation in eastern Kentucky, the White House announced Friday, a milestone that closes a chapter of warfare dating back to World War I.
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International
5/22/2023 10:32:26 PM
Western powers are looking at taking measures against Russia at the global chemical weapons body over alleged nerve agent attacks, the US ambassador to the watchdog said Monday.
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2/2/2023 6:12:23 PM
Syria on Thursday dismissed the global chemical weapons watchdog's statement, which said that investigators had found ``reasonable grounds to believe'' the Syrian air force dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas in 2018 on then-rebel-held town of Douma.
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1/27/2023 3:19:41 PM
The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday that its investigators found ``reasonable grounds to believe'' Syria's air force dropped two cylinders containing chlorine gas on the city of Douma in April 2018, killing 43 people.
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10/26/2022 10:18:03 PM
Turkish police on Wednesday arrested the head of Turkey's doctors' union after she called for a probe into the army's alleged use of chemical weapons against Kurdish militants, prosecutors said.
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Military
4/13/2022 11:41:17 AM
Ukraine said Tuesday it is investigating a claim that a poisonous substance was dropped on the besieged city of Mariupol.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
4/12/2022 11:56:57 PM
Vladimir Putin vowed Tuesday that Russia's bloody offensive in Ukraine would continue until its goals are fulfilled and insisted the campaign was going as planned, despite a major withdrawal in the face of stiff Ukrainian opposition and significant losses.
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Military
4/12/2022 11:00:37 AM
A spokesman for Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine has denied using chemical weapons to uproot Ukrainian troops in the port city of Mariupol.
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3/23/2022 5:31:10 PM
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says the military organization is setting up new multinational battlegroups in eastern Europe to deter Russia from launching an attack on any of its members.
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Diplomacy
3/14/2022 9:41:12 PM
Face to face, President Joe Biden's national security adviser warned a top Chinese official on Monday about China's support for Russia in the Ukrainian invasion, even as the Kremlin denied reports it had requested Chinese military equipment to use in the war.
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3/13/2022 11:05:52 PM
The US and China are sending top aides to Rome on Monday as tensions between the two countries mount over the Russia-Ukraine war and worries spread that the conflict will take even darker turns.
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