Posts Tagged: Assad chemical weapons
Remnants of Assad’s Chemical Weapons Program Recovered, Syrian Official Says
Syria's transitional leadership has located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program, including raw materials and munitions similar to those used to carry out deadly gas attacks during...
Syrian Victims of Chemical Attacks File Case With French Prosecutors
Lawyers representing survivors of a chemical weapons attack in 2013 in Syria have filed a criminal complaint against Syrian officials whom they blame for the deaths of...
Bolton Warns Syria Against Use of Chemical Weapons
US National Security Adviser John Bolton has warned the Syrian government it should not see the impending US military withdrawal from the country as an...
Iran and Russia Encourage and Aid Syria’s Chemical Weapons Program
The issue of the chemical weapons (CW) possessed and employed by Syria since it supposedly decided to get rid of them has become an increasingly tangled...
Public Reports ‘Clearly Show’ Assad’s Use of Chemical Weapons: McMaster
US National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said on Saturday that, despite denials, public reports showed that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was using chemical weapons, and added that it was time for the international...
US Says It Has Evidence Syria’s Assad Is Planning New Chemical Attack
JNS.org - The White House said Monday it has evidence that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is preparing to initiate another chemical weapons attack against civilians. White House...
Syria, Russia Deny US Allegations of Pending Chemical Weapons Attack
The involvement of external powers in the Syrian war continued to accelerate Tuesday as President Bashar Assad's government and Russia dismissed White House allegations that...
Israeli Intelligence: ‘Hard to Believe’ Assad Had No Knowledge of Chemical Attack
JNS.org - It is difficult to believe that President Bashar Assad had no knowledge of the deadly chemical attack on Syrian civilians in early April, a...
Israel, Notified Ahead of Trump’s Syria Strike, ‘Fully Supports’ US Response to Assad
JNS.org - Israeli leaders welcomed US President Donald Trump’s surprise military action late Thursday to strike the airbase where Syrian President Bashar Assad is believed to have launched a...
Kerry Praises Assad for Starting to Destroy Chemical Weapons
Reuters - Syria won foreign praise on Monday for starting to destroy its chemical arsenal, although an opposition activist said the world was merely giving President...
Did Lavrov Help Obama Dodge the Syria Bullet?
Any diplomatic initiative on Syria coming from Russia, whose UN votes have perpetuated Assad's killing machine for more than two years, should be viewed with...
Obama’s Insanity on Syria
The Algemeiner recently published a parody of President Obama's indecisiveness on Syria. So when I saw a headline announcing that Obama was willing to let Syrian...
U.S. Releases Intelligence on Syrian Gas Attack
JNS.org - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry released unclassified American intelligence reports on the use of chemical weapons in Syria on Friday afternoon,...
Israeli Officials Say Chemical Weapons Used in Syria
JNS.org - Israeli officials corroborated the Syrian opposition's claim that President Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons on civilians in a Wednesday attack in eastern...
