Nidal Shaikhani, Alert and Warning The Chemical Violations Documentation Center of Syria (CVDCS) announces herewith that Nidal Shaikani – or Mohamed Nidal Shaikhani – has been excluded from the Center and warns all third parties against dealing with him at a political level, especially since…
As a part of a systematic plan to evacuate the Syrian Ghouta from its people, the Syrian regime has been shelling the neighborhoods of al-Ghouta with all kinds of weapons since last February. And without any fear or deterrent of any international consequences or reactions,…
The top U.S., British, French and German diplomats urged the U.N. Security Council on Wednesday to renew the mandate of experts charged with determining who was responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria. They also said it’s “essential” to seek justice for the victims…
GENEVA (Reuters) – Government forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during Syria’s civil war, including in April’s deadly attack on Khan Sheikhoun, U.N. war crimes investigators said on Wednesday. A government warplane dropped…
Samples from an attack by Syrian forces in March on an opposition-held town has tested positive for the banned nerve agent sarin in an examination by the global chemical weapons watchdog, sources told Reuters. The March 30 air strike in the town of Latamneh, in…
By Michael Astor UNITED NATIONS — U.N. ambassadors from Britain and France said Tuesday they will seek to punish members of the Syrian regime implicated in the use of chemical weapons during the country’s civil war, but Russia’s envoy said his country would not support…
WORLD NEWS | Tue Nov 22, 2016, | 4:25pm GMT / Containers of a chemical suspected to be chlorine were dropped by helicopters on rebel-held east Aleppo on Tuesday, causing breathing difficulties in some people, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the local health authority said. The…
On 10 June 2016, the UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon transmitted the second report of the Joint Investigative Mechanism (JIM) on chemical weapons use in Syria to the UN Security Council. The JIM was established by the United Nations in August 2015, under the auspices…
18 November 2016 – The Security Council has extended, for an additional year, the mandate of the United Nations-Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Investigative Mechanism, the body tasked with identifying those behind chemical weapons attacks in…