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Officials with the Blue Grass Chemical Activity have gotten a historic stamp of approval by an international organization monitoring chemical weapons disposal.

The United States and its allies are vowing to keep Syria’s failure to account for its chemical weapons program in the spotlight at the U.N. Security Council every month despite opposition from Russia and China

The global chemical weapons watchdog says it found no evidence to support a claim by Syria that its forces were attacked using toxic gas in 2017

Here’s a round-up of Al Jazeera’s Middle East coverage this week.

Syria has dismissed the global chemical weapons watchdog's statement that investigators found “reasonable grounds to believe” Syria’s air force dropped two cylinders of chlorine gas on the city of Douma in 2018

The US aims to present an "integrated plan" on northern and eastern Syria after it agreed with Türkiye on a specific formula. The deal was discussed during the meetings of US envoy to eastern Syria Nicholas Granger with various parties in the region, according to Kurdish media. Over the past…

Western countries escalated their campaign against the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, after the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) issued a report on Friday accusing Damascus of carrying a chemical weapon attack on Douma near the Syrian capital in 2018. The report concluded that there are…

Syria's foreign ministry said on Saturday that a report by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) that found the Syrian government was responsible for a chemical weapon attack on the opposition-held Syrian city of Douma in 2018 lacked any evidence, and denied the allegations. The global chemical…

OPCW says helicopter dropped two cylinders ‘containing toxic chlorine gas on two apartment buildings’ in Douma.

The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said a nearly two-year investigation had found that at least one Syrian military helicopter had dropped gas cylinders on to residential buildings in the opposition-held Syrian city of Douma in 2018, killing 43 people. The April 7, 2018, attack on the outskirts of…

The global chemical weapons watchdog on Friday said a nearly two-year investigation had found that at least one Syrian military helicopter had dropped gas cylinders on to residential buildings in the rebel-held Syrian city of Douma in 2018, killing 43 people.