Sentences with phrase «chemical weapons being used»

Global spotlight on chemical weapons disposal: The international community reeled from the shock of witnessing chemical weapons being used on Syrian women and children.

US government sources said Washington's assessment of the Saturday attack was that chemical weapons were used.

So you want the US to do nothing when chemical weapons are used indiscriminately?

Secretary of State John Kerry told reporters at the Capitol that the U.S. believes chemical weapons were used twice, but the letter doesn't specify that.

Not exact matches

Obama was pressed by a similar situation in 2013, after evidence surfaced that Assad violated Obama's «red line» by using chemical weapons.

After the conference, Spicer offered additional clarification, telling an NBC reporter, «In no way was I trying to lessen the horrendous nature of the Holocaust, however, I was trying to draw a contrast of the tactic of using airplanes to drop chemical weapons on innocent people.»

I appreciate the clarification — that was not the intent,» Spicer said, presumably referring to the implication that Hitler did not use chemical weapons.

In Europe, the frontrunner to the French presidential election, Emmanuel Macron, said that there should be an international military intervention against the Syrian regime if it is proved that it is using chemical weapons.

A U.S. official familiar with the military planning said there could be more air strikes if the intelligence indicates Assad had not stopped making, importing, storing or using chemical weapons, including chlorine.

The one thing that ties all of these cases together (and you might throw in a comment this week by press secretary Sean Spicer about Hitler not using chemical weapons) is that there didn't appear to show remorse.

In Bronk's view, Russia most likely pressures Syria not to use chemical weapons, on the grounds that they raise the risk of a US strike and aren't needed militarily.

It's taken on greater urgency because the president had declared in an interview on Aug. 20 that use of chemical weapons would be «a red line for us» resulting in «enormous consequences.»

But reports of chemical attacks have surfaced regularly since then, and Islamist rebels fighting in the town of Douma — the site of the suspected chemical attack earlier this month that sparked the US and allies» strike on Friday — say Assad is using the terrifying weapons to win on the battlefield.

The UK has acknowledged that the intention of the strikes was not to turn the overall tide in the war and was essentially meant as a punitive action to compel Assad not to use chemical weapons.

«If President Trump had ordered the strike only to show that the US responded to [Syrian President Bashar] Assad's use of chemical weapons, then that goal has been achieved,» Israel's Ynetnews quoted a senior defense official as saying.

«But if there was another objective — such as paralyzing the ability to launch chemical weapons or deterring Assad from using it again — it's doubtful any of these objectives have been met.»

«They bombed and bombed, and we weren't defeated by conventional weapons, so they found the only way was to use chemical [weapons],» an official in the rebel group Jaysh Al Islam told Reuters.

«The statement of «Mission Accomplished» and (the assertion) that Assad's ability to use chemical weapons has been fatally hit has no basis,» the official said, most likely referring to a recent tweet from President Donald Trump.

The intended payload for North Korea's ICBM program is a nuclear warhead (although chemical weapons like VX nerve agent, which the nation allegedly possesses and has used, are another option).

But on Thursday, he tweeted that a U.S. missile strike on Syria in response to its alleged use of chemical weapons may not be imminent.

During a press conference following a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, Tillerson was asked about White House press secretary Sean Spicer's comments that unlike Assad, Hitler never stooped to the level of using chemical weapons.

«This is just the latest in a series of the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime, notwithstanding their use on more than 50 occasions of chlorine bombs and cluster bombs and other types of weapons that are intended to maim and kill in the most horrific ways.

«In both word and action, President (Donald) Trump sent a strong and clear message today that the use and spread of chemical weapons will not be tolerated,» a statement from President Benjamin Netanyahu's office said.

«They agreed it was vital that the use of chemical weapons did not go unchallenged, and on the need to deter the further use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.

«Chemical weapons have once again been used on Syrian men, women and children,» Haley said at Monday's meeting to discuss what appeared to be a chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49 people dead and scores Chemical weapons have once again been used on Syrian men, women and children,» Haley said at Monday's meeting to discuss what appeared to be a chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49 people dead and scores chemical attack on Douma, the last rebel - held town in Syria, on Saturday that left 49 people dead and scores injured.

Russia is allied with Syrian dictator Bashar al - Assad, and regularly floats the idea that chemical weapons haven't been used in Syria.

Nervous investors are waiting to see if the U.S. will launch a military strike on Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons.

More than 100 Russian diplomats alleged to be spies in western countries have been told to return to Moscow, in response to the use of a chemical weapon in the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal, a former Russia / UK double agent, and his daughter, Yulia, in Salisbury, England on 4 March.

Worrisome Trade: North Korea has been shipping supplies to Syria that could be used to produce chemical weapons, according to a new United Nations report.

That said, Washington's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said the U.S. forces are «locked and loaded» to carry future attacks if the Syrian government uses chemical weapons again.

A just cause must have probability of success and if the intent is to «deter» Assad and other rogues from using chemical weapons, lobbing a few cruise missiles won't accomplish such a goal.

The British government is currently opposed to the Syrian one, over claims the latter used chemical weapons against its own people.

«The allegations of the USA and other countries that the Syrian army is using chemical weapons and that Syria is a country that owns and uses this kind of weapon, is a claim that is unjustified and unsupported by sufficient and clear evidence.

Even though Syrian officials agreed to destroy their massive stockpiles of chemical weapons more than a year ago, a disturbing new report from a watchdog agency found evidence that mustard gas was used as recently as August.

His human rights record was among the worst in the world, and he used chemical weapons on both Kurds in his country and Iranians.

Asked if she expects the world to accept a leader that uses chemical weapons, she told Premier: «There is no proof that he [Assad] did.

'' [It] seems there's no reason why he should use chemical weapons.

However, the pope also said that people who use chemical weapons - as the Syrian government has been accused of doing - will face divine judgement.

«With utmost firmness I condemn the use of chemical weapons: I tell you that those terrible images from recent days are burned into my mind and heart.

I am a long way from being convinced we know what is going on in Syria in regards to WHO is using the chemical weapons on the civilian population.

Someone in Syria had chemical weapons stored somewhere that were crying to be used.

The United Nations said it's likely the Syrian government used chemical weapons eight times in April... More

How confident are we that a «limited» strike can be calibrated so as to deter the use of chemical weapons if Assad believes they might make the difference between victory and defeat.

There have been four suspected uses of chemical weapons in Syria this year, a Christian minister has said.

At least 20 unarmed men were executed by Syrian troops in Damascus, according to opposition activists, as the government said Monday that the country's chemical weapons were secure and would never be used against civilians.

Now he's looking at the prospect of being the president who, in effect, sanctioned the use of chemical weapons, a violation of international law.

It also makes no sense for Assad to use chemical weapons when he's winning the war and it would turn the US against him, but it makes a lot of sense for the rebels to frame him.

From «the dictator is killing his own people» to the «regime is using chemical weapons» to the need to establish «No Fly Zones» to safeguard «refugees fleeing Assad»... propaganda has been liberally used to build the justification for foreign military intervention.

It is in this vital national - security interest of the United States to prevent and deter the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.

President Trump's base is the same people who criticized President Obama over setting «red line» for Assad over use of chemical weapons and not doing anything when he did use them (because they happen to think that gassing people with poison is Not a Good Thing, even if the gassed people are Muslims in Syria).