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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...

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A picture taken on April 26, 2013 shows Abu Tarek, a 74-year-old retired army officer, trying 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. (AFP PHOTO / MIGUEL MEDINA)

UN reports points to chemical weapons use in Syria

by Caroline Akoum | Jun 5, 2013 | Middle East

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—UN investigators said yesterday that they had “reasonable grounds” to believe that limited amounts of chemical weapons had been used in Syria, without specifying by which side. A report by the UN Commission of Inquiry on Syria made...

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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...