Remnants of Assad's chemical weapons program recovered, Syrian official says
Authorities recovered more than 70 rockets and aerial bombs and detained 18 suspects as inspectors search up to 100 sites, officials said.
- Syria's transitional leadership located remnants of former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's clandestine chemical weapons program on Tuesday, discovering dozens of undeclared chemical munitions including aerial bombs and rockets alongside raw materials and equipment.
- After the Assad regime fell in December 2024, Syria launched a plan supported by Washington to eliminate its legacy chemical weapons, though the country had declared a 1,300-ton stockpile under the Chemical Weapons Convention in 2013 while prohibited use continued.
- Teams working for months with OPCW inspectors located more than 70 rockets and aerial bombs plus raw sarin ingredients linked to attacks killing more than 1,300 people in Ghouta in August 2013 and Al-Lataminah in March 2017, with chemical storage equipment and hexamine found at three locations.
- Eighteen suspects including high-level military and political officials faced arrest, with former Brigadier General Khardal Ahmed Dayoub accused of crimes linked to 1,400 deaths and coordination of the Eastern Ghouta bombing, with at least four detainees on international sanctions lists.
- The OPCW identified as many as 100 sites requiring inspection across Syria, while UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu welcomed increased cooperation but flagged serious concerns over undeclared stockpiles and inconsistent historical disclosures, though investigations confirmed chemical weapons use in 17 of 77 alleged incidents.
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According to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, OPCW, numerous undeclared chemical weapons stocks have been discovered in Syria.
Syria's ex-Machthaber Bashar al-Assad acted brutally against its own population during the civil war. Also with chemical weapons. Now part of the scale becomes clear.
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HandelsblattSyria's ex-Machthaber Bashar al-Assad acted brutally against its own population during the civil war. Also with chemical weapons. Now part of the scale becomes clear.
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Watchdog says dozens of Assad-era chemical weapons found in Syria in recent weeks
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says it has found dozens of undeclared chemical bombs and rockets in Syria.
Unreported deposits and sites of the old clandestine apparatus with ammunition, rockets, raw materials for the production of sarin gas. And the Opac has indicated up to one hundred Syrian sites that have yet to be inspected
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