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Toxic Gas Dropped on Syrian Town After Russian Helicopter is Shot Down

by Jordan Dakamseh | Aug 3, 2016 | Middle East

The President of the UN Security Council for August, the permanent representative of Malaysia to the UN Ramlan Ibrahim, said that the Council will discuss who is responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Syria during this month and will announce the results at...

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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...