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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.
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July 9, 2019This new report is the fourth in a series that assesses the extent to which 11 key states are fulfilling, promoting, or undermining 10 standards identified as critical elements of the nonproliferation and disarmament regime. Collectively, states fared worse on the majority of criteria when compared with the prior edition covering the 2013–2016 period.
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April 3, 2019
A number of international bodies have been engaged in investigating alleged chemical weapons use in Syria, although attribution and accountability gaps remain to be filled.