Chemical weapons

Russia approved secret China military training at top level, sources say

A classified Russian document seen by Reuters directly referred to an internal decree issued by Defense Minister Andrei Belousov in August, 2025.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping inspect an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China May 20, 2026.
Members of special IRGC forces attend a rally marking the annual Quds Day, or Jerusalem Day, on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan in Tehran, Iran April 29, 2022.

The most dangerous component of Iran’s arsenal - opinion

A drawing exhibition by a group of young men and women depicting various scenes related to the chemical attack, during an event commemorating the 12th anniversary of the attack on August 21, 2025 in Moadamiyat Al-Sham, Syria.

New Syrian chemical weapons find could help prosecute perpetrators of war crimes, experts say

Ghouta residents commemorate the 12th anniversary of the chemical attack on August 21, 2025 in Zamalka, Syria. On 21 August 2013 President Bashar al-Assad ordered strikes on two opposition-controlled areas of Ghouta, in the suburbs around Damascus.

Syria establishes task force to find and destroy last 'Assad-era chemical weapons'


Syrian government: Over 100 wounded in ‘chemical attack’ in Aleppo

Numerous sources on social media reported the attack on Saturday evening, claiming ambulances were heard and explosions.

A picture taken on March 22, 2017 in the Syrian town of Tayyibat al-Imam in the countryside of the central province of Aleppo, shows fighters running amdist destruction down a street past a rising plume of smoke from a burning tire meant to disrupt warplanes

Ashdod’s Assuta Hospital to hold Home Front Command drill

The hospital is the first Israeli hospital designed to be able to fully function during chemical and biological weapons events.

Assuta Ashdod University Hospital

U.N.: Assad regime guilty of more chemical weapons attacks this year

These incidents bring to 39 the total known Syrian chemical attacks, a UN official said.

Man with a child in a hospital in the besieged town of Douma, Eastern Ghouta, Damascus, Syria

Driven from home, White Helmet rescuers start over in north Syria

"We buried her and went back to work. There were a lot of people under the rubble," he said. Months later, he can no longer even visit her grave.

White Helmets of the Syrian Civil Defense in Kafrowaid, a village near Idlib in Syria

Palestinian Authority joins Chemical Weapons Convention

Israel has signed the convention but is one of the few nations not to have ratified it. It is, therefore, not considered a party to the convention.

PA President Mahmoud Abbas looks on during a reception ceremony for Bulgarian President Rumen Radev in Ramallah, in the West Bank, March 22, 2018

Jordanian, U.S. military drill tackles chemical attack scenarios

The chemical attack response training comes weeks after a suspected poison gas attack in Syria that sparked a US-led retaliatory strike.

US soldiers stand next to Jordanian flags as they take part in Exercise Eager Lion at one of the Jordanian military bases in Azraq, east of Amman, Jordan, April 26, 2018

Belgium companies sold deadly chemicals to Assad in violation of sanctions

Knack magazine reported that the companies said they were not aware that export licenses were required for the sale of chemicals to Syria.

Bodies from Syria chemical weapons attack 370

Russia may have tampered with chemical attack site, U.S. envoy says

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied that Moscow had interfered with any evidence.

A girl looks on following alleged chemical weapons attack, in what is said to be Douma, Syria in this still image from video obtained by Reuters on April 8, 2018

Trump, Obama combo finally starts to enforce chemical weapons treaty

An analysis on what the repercussions of the US strikes in Syria might mean for the use of chemical weapons in smaller states.

U.S. President Obama greets President-elect Trump in the White House Oval Office in Washington

Allied strike reveals robust, 'clandestine' chemical program in Syria

Russian and Syrian forces have taken control of the area where the chemical weapons attack is said to have happened, and are denying access to it for international inspectors.

The destroyed Scientific Research Centre is seen in Damascus, Syria April 14, 2018.