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Syrian opposition fighters hold their weapons as they prepare to board a bus to leave the last rebel-held neighborhood of al-Waer in Homs province, Syria, Monday, April 24, 2017. (SANA via AP)
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Exterior view of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) headquarters in The Hague in this file picture taken on October 11, 2013. (Reuters)
Russian-Iranian Bid for New Chemical Probe Rejected
The Hague- The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) rejected on Thursday, through a voting process, a Russian-Iranian proposal to form a new team to investigate the purported chemical attack against Khan Sheikhoun in Idlib province on April 4....Caption:
A man carries the body of a dead child, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria April 4, 2017. REUTERS/Ammar Abdullah
Why Would Assad Use Sarin in a War He’s Winning? To Terrify Syrians.
BEIRUT — In the summer of 1925, rebels from the Syrian countryside mounted a guerrilla uprising against French colonial rule. The French retaliated by looting, burning and carrying out massacres in villages they suspected of supporting the rebels. That October, French...Caption:
Russian FM Sergei Lavrov speaks to the media after talks in Moscow with his US counterpart Rex Tillerson. (AP)
Lavrov: US Strike on Syria Aimed at Destroying Settlement, Changing Regime
Moscow – Russia, Iran and the Syrian regime accused on Friday the United States of seeking to “destroy the political settlement in the Syrian crisis” in wake of its strike on a Syrian airbase last week. Meeting in Moscow, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, his...Caption:
Syrian children receive treatment following a suspected gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, on Tuesday (AFP/Getty