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Syria's President Bashar al-Assad speaking during a previous interview with Croatian newspaper Vecernji List in Damascus, Syria, April 6.

Interview: Syria's Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes

In an exclusive interview with AFP in Damascus — his first since the alleged April 4 attack prompted a US airstrike on Syrian forces — Bashar al-Assad said his army had given up all its chemical weapons and that Syrian military power was not affected by the US strike.

Interview: Syria's Assad says US ‘fabricated’ chemical attack to justify strikes
A civil defense member breathes through an oxygen mask, after what rescue workers described as a suspected gas attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun in rebel-held Idlib, Syria on April 4.

Dozens of Syrian civilians killed in apparent chemical attack

Dozens of Syrian civilians killed in apparent chemical attack
CCTV image Kuala Lumpur Malaysia airport

Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent, Malaysia says

Kim Jong-nam was killed by VX nerve agent, Malaysia says
A soldier from the US Army's 173rd Airborne Brigade adjusts his gas mask prior to an air analysis mission near an oil and gas separation plant at the Baba Gurgur oil field outside northern Iraq's town of Kirkuk on May 3, 2003.

The Army's secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure

The Army's secrecy habit kept US troops from getting needed treatment after chemical weapons exposure
Military personnel, believed to be Russian servicemen, march outside the Crimean city of Simferopol, March 4, 2014.

This is how Ukraine could end up derailing any progress in Syria

This is how Ukraine could end up derailing any progress in Syria
Chinese commando guards

Finally, the chemical weapon materials are moving out of Syria

After months of diplomacy, preparation and training, the first batch of Syria's chemical weapons are out of the country and in international waters. It's just the start.

Finally, the chemical weapon materials are moving out of Syria
Workers dressed in protective clothes hold a mock chemical World War Two grenade during a demonstration

Wanted: Peaceful place to destroy toxic WMDs, no experience required

The UN-linked group responsible for destroying Syria's chemical weapons arsenal wants to do the destruction away from Syria's civil war. But no country has offered to host the operation, which involves toxic chemicals. The other alternative is to do it at sea, but that is hardly ideal.

Wanted: Peaceful place to destroy toxic WMDs, no experience required
Islamic Republic of Iran Army T-55s move to front line of Iran-Iraq War.

The US and Iran part IV - hostile relations

US relations with Iran have never completely recovered from the seizure of American hostages at the US embassy in Tehran in 1979.

The US and Iran part IV - hostile relations