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September 1, 2021
The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons transformed from a standard arms control monitoring body into an indispensable instrument of international peace and security. This role must be strengthened to address a chemical weapons threat that has metastasized.
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September 1, 2021
The U.N. chemical weapons watchdog is investigating an air strike that destroyed two chlorine cylinders related to an April 2018 chemical weapons attack in Syria.
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July 1, 2021
OPCW Confirms Chemical Weapons Use in Syria
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June 1, 2021
A new report suggests Syria may still be producing chemical weapons despite being censured by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons for repeated CW use.
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May 1, 2021
For the first time, member states of the world's chemical weapons watchdog have suspended a state's rights under the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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April 1, 2021
CWC states-parties may consider steps to hold Syria accountable for use of chemical weapons in violation of the treaty.
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March 1, 2021
UN officials continue to report that they still cannot confirm the completeness of Syrian stockpile declaration.
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November 1, 2020
Damascus continues to stymie international efforts to curb its production and use of chemical weapons.
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September 21, 2020
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August 1, 2020
The OPCW Executive Council set a 90-day deadline for Syria to comply with the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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July 14, 2020The executive council’s comprehensive decision hailed dissent and dissatisfaction from certain member states that appear intent on shielding Syria from accountability for its egregious violations of the CWC.
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May 1, 2020
Investigators identified Syria's air force as responsible for March 2017 sarin attacks against rebel-held communities in Syria.
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April 13, 2020An inaugural report released April 8 by the OPCW's new Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) attributes a series of chemical weapons attacks in Syria in March 2017 to the Syrian Air Force. The new OPCW team has a mandate to assign responsibility for chemical attacks identified by the OPCW's Fact-Finding Mission reports that were not investigated by the United Nations-OPCW Joint Investigative Mechanism, which was dissolved in 2017.
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November 1, 2019
U.S. Alleges New Syrian Chlorine Attack
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July 9, 2019
A new report details the extent to which 11 key states are fulfilling, promoting, or undermining 10 standards identified as critical elements of the nonproliferation and disarmament regime.