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Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons News

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Though the use of chemical weapons is illegal under international law, the taboo on deploying them has been eroding after their repeated use in the Syrian civil war, but also in Iraq, Malaysia and Britain since 2012.
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A Syrian government official said accusations that government forces had used chemical weapons had "no basis in truth". 
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The Russian military said on Friday its officers have found evidence of chemical weapons use by Syrian militants in the northern area of Aleppo where government forces are trying to regain control of areas they recently lost to insurgents.
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The UN Security Council on Friday endorsed plans to rid Libya of its chemical weapons and prevent them from falling into the hands of extremists like the Islamic State group.
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There are "extremely worrying" signs that the Islamic State group may be making its own chemical weapons and may have used them already in Iraq and Syria, a global watchdog said Tuesday.
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Three reports have been sent by the head of the OPCW to the body's 192 members after separate missions to investigate incidents in Syria.






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