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New Confirmation Of Chlorine Use In Syria
Global arms experts Wednesday confirmed chlorine was used in a Syrian town in February leaving residents fighting for breath, as the world awaits the results of a probe into last month's alleged poison gas attack on Douma.
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US "Locked And Loaded" If Syria Uses "This Poison Gas Again": Nikki Haley
The US is "locked and loaded" if Syria uses chemical weapons again, America's UN envoy Nikki Haley said today.
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Donald Trump Ordered Syrian Air Strike Before Dinner With Xi Jinping
In a secure room at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, President Donald Trump's top military advisers presented him with three options for punishing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a poison gas attack that killed dozens of civilians
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US Missile Strikes On Syria Send Oil Prices Surging
US officials said the military had fired 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase controlled by Assad's forces, in response to a poison gas attack on Tuesday in a rebel-held area.
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Donald Trump Says 'Something Should Happen' With Bashar al-Assad As US Weighs Military Options
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House launched detailed discussions on military options.
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Donald Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Went 'Beyond A Red Line'
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians, but he declined to spell out how or whether his administration would respond.
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Russia Says Syria Gas Incident Caused By Rebels' Own Chemical Arsenal
Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government air strikes.
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Syrian State Media Say Militants Fire Poison Gas In Aleppo
Syrian state media said militants fired poison gas at a government-held area of Aleppo on Sunday, causing 35 people to choke, a report which a rebel official called a lie.
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US 'Deeply Disturbed' by Reports of Chemical Weapons in Syria: John Kerry
The United States is deeply disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces attacked the town of Sarmin using chlorine as a weapon on March 16, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Syrian Army Denies Reports that it Killed 6 in Gas Attack
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said today government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
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Syrian Government Used Chlorine Gas on Civilians: OPCW Report
The latest report on Syria by the global chemical weapons watchdog offers further evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly attacked its own citizens with poison gas, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
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Syrian opposition accuses Bashar al-Assad of new poison attack
Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics.
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UN resolution orders Syria chemical arms destroyed
The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution on Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.
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Syria committed to chemical weapons deal: Bashar al-Assad
Syria is committed to the convention against chemical weapons it signed under a US-Russian deal and sees "no obstacles" to its implementation, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview broadcast today.
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Syria has given chemical weapons details to watchdog
Syria has submitted details of its chemical weapons to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, the organisation told Reuters on Friday.
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New Confirmation Of Chlorine Use In Syria
Global arms experts Wednesday confirmed chlorine was used in a Syrian town in February leaving residents fighting for breath, as the world awaits the results of a probe into last month's alleged poison gas attack on Douma.
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US "Locked And Loaded" If Syria Uses "This Poison Gas Again": Nikki Haley
The US is "locked and loaded" if Syria uses chemical weapons again, America's UN envoy Nikki Haley said today.
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Donald Trump Ordered Syrian Air Strike Before Dinner With Xi Jinping
In a secure room at his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, President Donald Trump's top military advisers presented him with three options for punishing Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a poison gas attack that killed dozens of civilians
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US Missile Strikes On Syria Send Oil Prices Surging
US officials said the military had fired 59 cruise missiles against a Syrian airbase controlled by Assad's forces, in response to a poison gas attack on Tuesday in a rebel-held area.
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Donald Trump Says 'Something Should Happen' With Bashar al-Assad As US Weighs Military Options
US President Donald Trump said on Thursday that "something should happen" with President Bashar al-Assad after a deadly poison gas attack in Syria, as the Pentagon and the White House launched detailed discussions on military options.
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Donald Trump Says Chemical Attack In Syria Went 'Beyond A Red Line'
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday accused Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government of going "beyond a red line" with a poison gas attack on civilians, but he declined to spell out how or whether his administration would respond.
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Russia Says Syria Gas Incident Caused By Rebels' Own Chemical Arsenal
Russia's defence ministry said on Wednesday that a poisonous gas contamination in the Syrian town of Khan Sheikhoun was the result of gas leaking from a rebel chemical weapons depot after it was hit by Syrian government air strikes.
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Syrian State Media Say Militants Fire Poison Gas In Aleppo
Syrian state media said militants fired poison gas at a government-held area of Aleppo on Sunday, causing 35 people to choke, a report which a rebel official called a lie.
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US 'Deeply Disturbed' by Reports of Chemical Weapons in Syria: John Kerry
The United States is deeply disturbed by reports that Syrian government forces attacked the town of Sarmin using chlorine as a weapon on March 16, Secretary of State John Kerry said in a statement on Thursday.
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Syrian Army Denies Reports that it Killed 6 in Gas Attack
A group monitoring the Syrian civil war said today government forces carried out a poison gas attack that killed six people in the northwest, and medics posted videos of children suffering what they said was suffocation.
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Syrian Government Used Chlorine Gas on Civilians: OPCW Report
The latest report on Syria by the global chemical weapons watchdog offers further evidence that the Syrian government repeatedly attacked its own citizens with poison gas, US Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said on Tuesday.
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Syrian opposition accuses Bashar al-Assad of new poison attack
Opposition activists again accused President Bashar al-Assad's forces of using poison gas in Syria's civil war on Thursday, showing footage of an apparently unconscious man lying on a bed and being treated by medics.
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UN resolution orders Syria chemical arms destroyed
The UN Security Council unanimously passed a landmark resolution on Friday ordering the destruction of Syria's chemical weapons and condemning a murderous poison gas attack in Damascus.
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Syria committed to chemical weapons deal: Bashar al-Assad
Syria is committed to the convention against chemical weapons it signed under a US-Russian deal and sees "no obstacles" to its implementation, President Bashar al-Assad said in an interview broadcast today.
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Syria has given chemical weapons details to watchdog
Syria has submitted details of its chemical weapons to Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, the organisation told Reuters on Friday.
