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A woman breathes through an oxygen mask at al-Quds hospital, after a hospital and a civil defense group said a gas, what they believed to be chlorine, was dropped alongside barrel bombs on a neighborhood of the Syrian city of Aleppo, Syria, early August 11, 2016. REUTERS/Abdalrhman Ismail

Rescue Workers Report on Suspected Aleppo Chlorine Attack Choking Dozens

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Sep 6, 2016 | Middle East

A suspected chlorine gas attack on an opposition-held neighborhood in the Syrian city of Aleppo had reportedly caused dozens of cases of suffocation on Tuesday, rescue workers and a monitoring group said. The Syrian Civil Defense, a rescue workers’ organization...

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Buildings destroyed by shelling and bombing in the town of Saraqeb, Idlib province, Syria (AAA)

Saraqeb’s Agony

by Hannah Lucinda Smith | May 23, 2013 | Features

Saraqeb, Asharq Al-Awsat—It’s the details in the dust that give away the enormity of what’s happened in Saraqeb. The child’s shoe, stained brown and separated from its partner, lying next to one half of a broken china saucer; the relics of normality scattered over a...

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A Syrian man tries on a homemade gas-mask assembled using a plastic bottle, coal, cotton, gauze, cola, and cardboard, for protection against chemical weapons, in Syria’s northern Latakia province, April 26, 2013 (AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA)

US and UK Cautious on Nerve Gas Claims in Syria

by Alex Edwards | Apr 27, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Uncertainty continues to surround the allegations of the use of chemical weapons in Syria, after US and British officials said this week that evidence had emerged that the Syrian government had used nerve gas on the battlefield. In a letter to...