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UN-OPCW Probe of Syria Sarin Gas Attack Comes Under Heavy Pressure

A joint UN-OPCW panel tasked with determining who was behind the deadly sarin gas attack in the Syrian town of Khan...

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Syria Warns of Allied Response In Case of US Attack

The Syrian government on Monday warned that any new attack by Washington on the war-ravaged country would provoke an...

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Moscow Says ‘questionable Data’ In Report On Syria Chemical Attack

Russia on Friday dismissed a report by the UN's chemical weapons watchdog that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in...

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Sarin Used In Deadly Attack On Syria Town In April

A fact-finding mission by the UN's chemical watchdog, the OPCW, concluded that sarin was used as a chemical weapon in...

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Mattis Says Assad Took Trump’s Chemical Warning ‘seriously’

US President Donald Trump's warning to the Syrian government not to carry out a chemical weapons attack appears to have...

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Dozens Dead In US-Led Strikes On Jihadist-Run Syrian Prison

US-led coalition air strikes killed nearly 60 people at a Syrian prison run by the Islamic State group, a monitor said...

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US Says Assad May Be Preparing Chemical Attack, Warns ‘heavy Price’

Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the "mass murder" of...

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Syria’s Assad Says War’s ‘worst Is Behind Us’

Syria's President Bashar al-Assad has said the worst of his country's six-year war "is behind us" after a string of...

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Putin ‘convinced’ Damascus Not Behind April Chemical Attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published Tuesday, said he was "convinced" the Syrian government was...

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Chemical Weapons Allegedly Used 45 Times In Syria

Experts from the world's watchdog tasked with destroying chemical weapons are probing reports that toxic arms have been...

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France ‘hiding Truth’ On Suspected Chemical Attack

Syria on Thursday accused France of concealing the real identity of those behind a deadly suspected chemical attack, a...

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US Blacklists 271 Syrian Chemists, Other Experts Over Sarin Attack

The US government put 271 Syrian chemists and other officials on its financial blacklist Monday, punishing them for...

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US-Backed Forces Enter Major Jihadist-Held Syria Town

A US-backed alliance of Arab-Kurdish forces entered the key jihadist-held town of Tabqa on Monday as they pursued their...

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Russian FM Presses US’s Tillerson Over Syria Probe

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov voiced "regret" in a phone call with his US counterpart at Washington's...

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‘Assad Blames Ex Al-Qaeda Affiliate For Bombing Evacuees’

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad on Friday blamed the country's former Al-Qaeda affiliate for a deadly bombing against...

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‘No Doubt’ Syria Has Retained Chemical Weapons

Pentagon chief Jim Mattis said during a visit to Israel Friday that there can be "no doubt" that Syria has retained...

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Scared Syrian Evacuees Stuck At Site of Deadly Bombing

Hundreds of frightened Syrians being evacuated from besieged towns were stuck Thursday at a rebel-held transit point...

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Ridding the World of Chemical Weapons

Russia criticised the world's chemical weapons watchdog for not sending experts to the site of an alleged chemical...

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Chain of Events After Suspected Syria Chemical Attack

A suspected chemical attack on a rebel-held town in Syria's Idlib province on April 4 killed dozens of people. Western...