Chemical Attack

OPCW probe: Syrian regime used chemical weapons in 2018 Saraqeb attack

New investigative report of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reveals Syrian regime air force hit Al Talil neighbourhood in Idlib’s Saraqeb in February 2018 with chlorine bombs.

Still no justice for the Khan Shaykhun chemical attack victims

All the evidence points towards the Syrian regime, but no one has been held accountable.

Survivors of Syria regime chemical attacks ask France to investigate

Syrian chemical attack victims and Syrian rights groups have filed a criminal complaint in France, where courts have a mandate to investigate and prosecute crimes against humanity even if committed by foreign nationals on foreign territory.

Chemical weapons watchdog to take action on Syria sarin attacks

An April report by a new investigations team at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons found the Syrian regime air force used sarin gas and chlorine on the village of Lataminah in March 2017.

Is the Syrian mess Obama’s legacy?

The world’s most powerful country sidestepped responsibility, switched allies and left a power vacuum that threatens to destabilise the entire region.

Syrian regime carried out over 300 chemical attacks – report

Since the civil war began in 2011, Assad's regime launched 98 percent of such attacks, a German-based institute reports.

Russia air strikes hit rebels in Syria's Aleppo after 'gas attacks'

Russia says it carried out air strikes on a planned buffer zone around opposition bastion of Idlib, a day after an alleged toxic attack on regime-held city.

Idlib offensive could spark worst humanitarian emergency: UN

The Syrian regime is gearing up for an expected offensive in Idlib province, which is home to nearly 3 million people and has a large al Qaida presence in addition to opposition and rebel groups.

Chlorine gas but no nerve agent in Douma attack says chemical watchdog

Initial findings by the OPCW into a suspected chemical attack in the Syrian town of Douma indicate that chlorine may have been used but that there were no indications that a nerve agent was used in the April 7 attack.

Essay: The alternate reality that enables genocide in Syria

The weaponisation of propaganda on Syria has gone from a cottage industry to a mainstream scourge. Does the propaganda enable the Assad regime's crimes?

Experts collect samples from site of alleged Syria gas attack

The Organisation of the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons said on Saturday the mission visited "one of the sites" in Douma, where at least 40 killed in a suspected gas attack on April 7, and would draft a report based on the findings.

False alarm triggered Syria's air defence systems – regime TV

Syrian regime media first reported that missiles were fired at the Shayrat air base near Homs and an air base in the capital Damascus. However state TV later said a false alarm had triggered air defence systems, and there was no attack.