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Police officers gather outside the morgue at Kuala Lumpur General Hospital where Kim Jong Nam’s body was held for autopsy in Malaysia February 16, 2017. REUTERS/Edgar Su

North Korea’s Kim Jong Nam Killed with Globally Banned VX

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Feb 25, 2017 | World

Kuala Lumpur- VX nerve agent, a chemical the United Nations classifies as a weapon of mass destruction, was used to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in a bizarre murder in Malaysia last week, police said on Friday. Kim Jong Nam was...

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Employees of the Research Institute for Protective Technologies, Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection (WIS), a reference laboratory for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), carry a container with a dummy sample, during a demonstration in Munster October 15, 2013. (Reuters/Fabrizio Bensch)

US offers to destroy Syrian chemical weapons

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 30, 2013 | Middle East

Amsterdam, Associated Press—The United States has stepped forward to help destroy some of the most lethal parts of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile at an offshore facility, the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said Saturday. The...

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People wearing gas masks and posters reading “Stop to the chemical weapons” during a protest in front of the Albanian Embassy in Skopje, Macedonia, on Thursday, Nov. 14, 2013. (AP)

Albania rejects request to destroy Syrian weapons

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 15, 2013 | Middle East

Tirana, AP—Albania on Friday rejected a request from the United States for the tiny impoverished Balkan nation to host the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons stockpile, a major blow to international efforts to destroy the arsenal by mid-2014. In a televised...

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Members of a UN investigation team take samples in the Damascus countryside of Ain Terma, Syria. (AP Photo/United media office of Arbeen)

International experts mull Syrian chemical weapon proposal

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Sep 11, 2013 | Middle East

Washington and London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The Russian proposal to place Syria’s chemical weapons under international supervision would require the complete cooperation of a regime which is very secretive about its arsenal, in an operation which is difficult to...