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April 13, 2020
An 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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April 1, 2020
New families of chemical agents soon will be explicitly prohibited by the Chemical Weapons Convention.
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March 1, 2020
Russia invokes a rare UN process to question chemical weapons claims in Syria.
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March 1, 2020
U.S. Begins Destroying Last Batch of Sarin
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December 1, 2019
The treaty to prohibit chemical weapons is nearing completion of some of its core goals, but a range of political and compliance challenges threaten the regime.
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December 1, 2019
CWC States Update List of Banned Chemicals
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November 25, 2019
Dr. Paul F. Walker, international program director with Green Cross International (and vice chair of the Arms Control Association board of directors) offered the following comments to the CSP-24 in November.
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November 1, 2019
U.S. Alleges New Syrian Chlorine Attack
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May 1, 2019
Russia Challenges Changes to CWC
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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.