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A man walks next to heavily damaged buildings and destroyed cars following Russian attacks in Bakhmut, Donetsk region, eastern Ukraine, May 24, 2022.

Ukrainian doctors train for the possibility of a chemical attack from Russia

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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, medical workers have been concerned about the possibility of Russia using chemical agents against civilians. That hasn’t happened yet (none on official record) but a Syrian American nongovernmental organization is helping Ukrainian medical workers prepare for the worst.

Libya chemical weapons

The chemical weapons have been destroyed, not in Syria, but in Libya

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Chinese commando guards

Finally, the chemical weapon materials are moving out of Syria

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Chemical Weapons Training at US base

The plan to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons is simple, at least on paper

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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

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The OPCW Inspection Team leaving for Syria on 30 September.

Nobel Prize shoves the small Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons into the spotlight

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A very famous girl was passed over for the peace prize. Instead, the Nobel committee chose a very obscure UN group tasked with eliminating chemical weapons across the globe.

A U.N. convoy transporting a team of United Nations experts charged with starting the process of verifying and eliminating chemical weapons arrives at a hotel in Damascus on October 1, 2013.

Weapons inspectors get to work in Syria under a tight deadline

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International weapons inspectors have arrived in Damascus to start dismantling Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal. And they’ll be racing to hit a mid-2014 deadline for finishing the job.

Journalist discusses ‘disneyland for jihadists’ developing in Syria

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One of the challenges facing UN weapons inspectors in Syria is how to gain access to areas controlled by rebels. Jihadis, some linked to al-Qaeda, have come from all over the Muslim world to battle the government of Bashar al-Assad.

US President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about Syria in the Oval Office of the White House on September 27, 2013.

The next step falls into place on Syria’s chemical weapons as Obama talks to Iran’s Rouhani

Diplomacy is moving at an uncharacteristically fast pace as leaders of Iran and the US speak — for the first time in more than 30 years — and the UN moves forward with plans to destroy Syria’s chemical weapons

Nuclear Arms Control Expert on the Future of Assad’s Stockpile

In what could be a major diplomatic breakthrough for the United States and Syria, the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has agreed to disclose the location of its chemical weapons stockpile, end production, and put the weapons under international control. Though this could be a promising step toward avoiding military intervention, securing these very […]