In an attack on the Syrian city of Douma, where dozens of civilians were killed in April, chlorine gas was used. The Reuters news agency reports this on the basis of the first analyzes from a report by the OPCW, the international watchdog that oversees the ban on the use of chemical weapons.
The assumed poison gas attack in Syria was staged by a PR machine disguised as an aid organization. Russia wants to convey that message to the world on Thursday afternoon. The country says it has brought several 'dead' and 'wounded' from the videos to the Netherlands to testify.
Experts from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) have again conducted research in the Syrian city of Douma. They looked for traces of a possible poison gas attack. The samples are transferred to the OPCW laboratory in Rijswijk, the organization announced.
Russia plans to bring Syrians to the Netherlands that were seen on images of the alleged poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma. Russian ambassador Alexander Sjoelgin said in an interview with ITV News that his country's 'unforgivable lies' \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27; about the incident.
International inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) went to Douma on Saturday to investigate whether that Syrian city has become the target of a poison gas attack. The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs has made it known.
The special envoy of the United Nations for Syria, Staffan de Mistura, has said on a visit to Moscow that the UN is exerting pressure on the inspectors of the OPCW to do their work in the Syrian Douma. The International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is with experts in Syria to find out whether in the until recently besieged Douma a poison attack has been and who should be held responsible for the use of the poison.
The United States suspects that Russia and Syria are trying to keep OPCW researchers out of Douma, where possible an attack has been carried out with chemical weapons. The countries would meanwhile try to eliminate evidence.
Inspectors of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) are not yet going to Douma, a suburb of Damascus. They were going to investigate Wednesday there, but that was postponed because according to UN security officers, Tuesday was shot. It is not clear about what kind of shooting the security people spoke to.
Researchers from the International Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) entered the suburb of Douma near Damascus on Tuesday, reported Syrian state television.
France says that evidence for last week's Syrian toxic attack is being obscured. According to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, it is therefore important that international inspectors are allowed to enter Douma as soon as possible.
An international team of experts who want to investigate the possible poison gas attack in the Syrian Douma can start work on Wednesday. That expectation was expressed by the Russian ambassador at the organization against chemical weapons (OPCW) in The Hague.
The mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) does not yet have access to the area in the Syrian city of Douma where an attack with chemical weapons would have taken place. That is what the United Kingdom delegation says to the OPCW. 'Free access is essential. Russia and Syria must cooperate \u0026 # x27; \u0026 # x27 ;, twittered the British delegation.
The United States wants the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) to condemn in no uncertain terms the attacks with chemical weapons in Syria.
French President Emmanuel Macron has defended the rocket attack on targets in Syria. The intervention was necessary to give the international community 'some credibility', the president said in an interview that was broadcast by several French media.
Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad does not care about the attacks that three western countries have done on his country. He stays on the same course, Russian parliamentarians who were visiting Damascus and Assad reported this weekend. Assad was in a good mood and praised the Russian anti-aircraft, with which his army would have brought down the most rockets.
Only 28 percent of respondents in a British opinion poll support Prime Minister Theresa May's decision to attack Syria with missiles. Britain, the US and France fired more than a hundred missiles at targets in Syria during the night from Friday to Saturday. They state that there was an attack with poison gas a week earlier in Douma near Damascus and that the regime of President Assad should be punished with missiles there.
The leader of the largest opposition party in France, Laurent Wauquiez, has called the attacks on Syria useless. Wauquiez, of the center-right Republicans, finds it useless to attack just to get a feeling of doing something, but not to have any strategy behind the actions.
The Syrian army reports that all armed groups have left from East Ghouta, the former rebel enclave near Damascus. 'All terrorists have been removed from the city of Douma, their last stronghold in East Ghouta', reports the Syrian state press agency SANA on the authority of the army command.
All member states of NATO have expressed their full support for the American, French and British attacks on Syria. They did so after the NATO ambassadors of the three countries had given their 26 colleagues information, which they believed to be responsible for the use of chemical weapons in Douma, a week ago, by President Assad's government.
The United States is ready to take action again if the Syrian government uses chemical weapons again. That is what the American UN ambassador Nikki Haley suggested during a session of the UN Security Council.
The West has lost all influence and credibility in the conflict in the Middle East and therefore only carried out a rocket attack on Syria under the leadership of the US. This is what Syrian President Assad said in a reaction to attacks on his country in the night from Friday to Saturday.
While Russia is shaking things up by blaming Great Britain for staging the chemical attack in Douma, there is disagreement within the Western coalition about the extent of military action against Syria.
A first team of researchers from the United Nations arrived in Syria on Friday to see if there had been an attack with poison last weekend. UN chief António Guterres said this Friday and stated that a second team is expected soon in Damascus.
According to the Kremlin, London was involved in the scene of an attack with poison gas last weekend in the Syrian town of Douma. According to reports from the Russian Ministry of Defense, there is evidence that the British 'were directly involved in organizing a provocation' where poison gas was used.
Russia has evidence that foreigners are responsible for the recent attack with chemical weapons in the Syrian city of Douma. Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov said that Friday, reported the state news agency Sputnik.
US President Donald Trump discussed the situation around Syria on Thursday with his national security team. In that conversation, no decision has yet been taken about possible retaliatory actions against Syria, according to the White House.
Syria, Russia and Iran must allow international observers and medical workers unhindered access to the site at Damascus where a suspected attack with chemical weapons took place on Saturday. NATO CEO Jens Stoltenberg said that Thursday. He condemns the attack 'in the strongest possible terms.'
The Netherlands understands an American attack on the regime of President Assad of Syria, now that there is much evidence that chemical weapons have been used against the population of Douma. That's what Prime Minister Mark Rutte told China in China today.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel concludes that her country is taking part in military attacks on Syria. She said Thursday that Germany would do everything to make it clear that the use of chemical weapons is unacceptable.
The United States is conducting feverish consultations with France and Great Britain about military action against Syria. After the harsh words of Donald Trump yesterday, who warned that the 'missiles are coming', America has left the door ajar for a diplomatic solution. 'We study all options,' said the spokeswoman for the White House. But it is expected that the diplomatic door will be slammed quickly and hard.
