Chemical weapons News

The 41-year-old, who now lives with his wife Zaina in Normandy, France, recalls Bin Laden telling him that he was the son chosen to carry on his work. He, however, chose to leave Afghanistan in April 2001, just months before the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York.

"Mariupol has been destroyed, there are tens of thousands of dead, but even despite this, the Russians are not stopping their offensive," President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said in a video address to South Korean lawmakers without providing more details.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki said the supplies were being provided to the government of Ukraine. The White House has set up a team of experts to plan how to respond if Moscow does deploy any weapons of mass destruction. The European Union has also launched a stockpiling operation to boost its defenses against chemical, nuclear and biological incidents .

Russia`s defence ministry has accused Kyiv, without providing evidence, of planning a chemical attack against its own people in order to accuse Moscow of using chemical weapons in the invasion of Ukraine that began on Feb. 24.

Washington separately imposed sanctions on another two men and four Russian institutes. It said were involved in chemical weapons research or what it described as an assassination attempt against Navalny. Moscow has rejected their findings and accused the West of a smear campaign against it.

Pakistan has been involved in war crimes, human rights violations and genocide for a long time. But the heights of barbarism and inhumanity depicted recently in Balochistan and Sindh are extremely shocking. Thousands of Baloch activists have disappeared from Balochistan and hundreds of young Sindhi and Urdu-speaking local workers from Sindh have been abducted.

The Kremlin said on October 7 that Russia was not developing any chemical weapons. It added that Russia was fully complying with its obligations under an international arms control treaty that outlaws their production. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov was speaking after the OPCW said blood samples from Alexei Navalny contained a nerve agent from the banned Novichok family.

India claimed that decision violates the Chemical Weapons Convention's (CWC) finely crafted balance and instead gives unchecked powers to the OPCW DG.

International investigators of the OPCW were on Tuesday on the ground in the Syrian town of Douma, where dozens were killed in a suspected chemical weapons attack on April 7.

Russia said on April 16, 2018, that it still hopes for dialogue with Washington despite US-led strikes on Moscow's ally Syria.

Rising tensions between the US and Russia over military strikes in Syria appears to have jeopardised the North Korean denuclearisations talks.  

Pope Francis on Sunday condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

An inquiry by the global chemical weapons watchdog found sarin was used in a March attack in Syria on an opposition-held town, just days before the banned nerve agent killed dozens in a separate attack nearby, sources told Reuters on Wednesday.

Syria`s army said Israeli warplanes were again responsible Thursday for an early morning strike on a military site in an area where the regime has been accused of producing chemical weapons.  

Syrian forces have used chemical weapons more than two dozen times during the country`s civil war, UN war crimes investigators said on Wednesday.

The attack sparked outrage around the world as photos and video of the aftermath, including quivering children dying on camera, were widely broadcast.

The United States carried out its first direct military action against Syria in April, firing 59 Tomahawk cruise missiles at the Shayrat military airport.  

Russia is accusing Washington of preparing a "provocation" in Syria, which would then be blamed on President Bashar Assad's government as alleged use of chemical weapons.

Russia denounced a US warning that the Syrian leadership will pay a heavy price for any chemical weapons attack, and dismissed White House assertions that a strike was being prepared as "unacceptable".

The United States has announced sanctions on two Islamic State (IS) chemical weapons experts, in the first such effort to specifically target the terrorist group`s chemical weapons leadership.