Sentences with phrase «chemical weapons have»

The team's conclusion: «Chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic, also against civilians, including children, on a relatively large scale.

Although chemical weapons have gotten much better since then, so has protection from those weapons.

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

«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 injured.

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.»

«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 suspected use of chemical weapons has drawn the West back into Syria's seven - year conflict.

According to Collins, Russia's proposal for Syria to turn over its chemical weapons has elevated Russian President Vladimir Putin and diminished the standing of the United States.

The opportunity to draw red lines against Assad's use of chemical weapons has gone for good.

If the risk is enough for Homeland Security to release a gas into Grand Central Station to test how chemical weapons would affect the place, why wouldn't it be enough to keep a study like this quiet?

Not exact matches

Syrian air defenses activated and fired interceptor missiles during the US, UK, and France's missile strike on the country's suspected chemical weapons sites, but only two of those reportedly had a chance of hitting their targets.

«Together we have sent a clear message to Assad and his murderous lieutenants that they should not perpetrate another chemical weapons attack for which they will be held accountable.»

That characterization raised questions about whether Western forces would intervene again if Assad used chemical weapons again, or if the conflict escalated amid Russia's growing bellicosity.

Ryan Bohl, a Middle East analyst at the geopolitical consulting firm Stratfor, told Business Insider that though Syria's chemical weapons facilities lay under the umbrella of Russia's air defenses, they were not actually close enough that a strike on the facilities would endanger Russian troops.

Trump, a political neophyte then inside his first 100 days in office, attacked an ally of Russia and Iran after intelligence services concluded that Assad's forces had used chemical weapons on Syrian civilians, many of them children.

President Donald Trump hailed the U.S. - led intervention in Syria as «perfectly executed,» adding that the military campaign to degrade Bashar Assad's chemical weapons capability had accomplished its goals.

The administration has sought to improve ties with Russia, but Russian President Vladimir Putin has given no indication that he will abandon Assad, and he still denies that Assad was responsible for the chemical weapons attack in April.

And Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said that the strike «has severely damaged or destroyed Syrian aircraft and support infrastructure and equipment at Shayrat airfield, reducing the Syrian government's ability to deliver chemical weapons.»

Prices jumped this week after Trump said the U.S. would respond militarily to Syria's use of chemical weapons on its citizens last Saturday, killing dozens and wounding hundreds more.

«We believe that by hitting Barzeh in particular we've attacked the heart of the Syrian chemicals weapon program,» Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie told reporters at the Pentagon.

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.

Perhaps one of the most shocking conspiracy theories that turned out to be true was a CIA program called MKUltra, which had the stated goal of developing biological and chemical weapons capability during the Cold War, according to Gizmodo.

The face - off intensified after Russia warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down.

The State Department said on Friday that it had proof that Syria carried out a recent chemical weapons attack in the town of Douma.

The face - off between the two countries gained ground after Russia warned that any U.S. missiles fired at Syria over a suspected chemical weapons attack on a rebel enclave would be shot down.

Therefore the military would have to target «not only nuclear infrastructure but command and control facilities, key leaders, artillery and missile units, chemical and biological weapons facilities, airfields, ports, and other targets deemed critical to regime survival,» according to the report for Congress.

The Kremlin said on Wednesday allegations that Syrian government forces had carried out the chemical weapons attack were not based on real facts and said it wanted an impartial investigation into the incident.

The country has big stockpiles of chemical weapons that need to be addressed, says Korea Economic Institute's Troy Stangarone.

But now that Assad's forces are dominant, Kupchan says, Russian has little influence over Assad, who brings negative attention to the alliance through his attacks on civilians, including with chemical weapons.

Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said Tuesday his government has evidence that the Assad regime still has the capacity to use chemical weapons.

Investigative reporter and blogger Eliot Higgins has talked about how Facebook's haste to censor what might be disturbing or controversial imagery can directly impact our understanding of a developing news story: the site removed several pages and posts from Syrian dissident groups and terrorist factions, but in doing so it effectively deleted a key source of information about chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian government.

«It seems new national security advisor John Bolton could be starting his first day in the White House in the worst way possible: by having to plan a military strike on Assad's ability to deliver chemical weapons attacks in Syria,» Harry Kazianis, director of defense studies at the Center for the National Interest, told CNBC.

These include: itinerary details; the name of the person or organization paying for the trip; the names of every country the applicant has visited in the past 10 years (99 for me); the applicant's current and two previous places of work; every educational institution the applicant has attended; all the professional, civil, and charity organizations of which the applicant is a member or with which he has «cooperated»; the names of all the applicant's relatives in Russia; the details of any training in firearms, explosives, nuclear weapons, and «biological and chemical substances» (which arguably would include everything from acidophilus yogurt to Drano); and details of the applicant's military service, including rank and occupation.

UN war - crimes investigators had previously documented 33 chemical attacks in Syria, attributing 27 to the Assad government, which has repeatedly denied using the weapons.

Over the past couple of weeks, though, news that Bashar al - Assad's regime might have used chemical weapons, and thereby crossed President Barack Obama's «red line,» has put the country far above any other potential spoiler on the probability scale.

The Syrian government has misrepresented the destruction of its chemical weapons and been caught.

The next day, according to the White House, intelligence suggests the Syrian government had indeed used chemical weapons, killing men, women, and children.

The group quickly determines the mission team's potential strength (knowledge of the terrain), potential weakness (susceptibility to disease), assumptions being factored into the decisions (they do not face nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons), things they must not do (damage property, which would lead to loss of popular support), the principle information requirements, high - value targets, and so on through a checklist of easily overlooked considerations.

«The blunt fact is that, in the past 50 years, firearms in the hands of domestic extremists have killed far more Americans than have bombs, blades, chemical or biological weapons, or any other type of weapon,» the report stated.

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.»

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).

However, McKenzie acknowledged elements of Syria's chemical weapons program remain and he could not guarantee that Syria would be unable to conduct a chemical attack in the future.

The year after Gates left the job, President Barack Obama told White House reporters a «red line» for US intervention in Syria would come if the regime of President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons.

And the agreement to get rid of chemical weapons in Syria hasn't held up.

The combined U.S., British and French assault involved more missiles, but appears to have struck more limited targets, than a similar strike Trump ordered a year ago in retaliation for an earlier suspected chemical weapons attack.

Nikki Haley, the US ambassador to the United Nations, announced Sunday morning that the US would impose new sanctions against Russia in the wake of a suspected chemical weapons attack in Syria.

The Pentagon said there had been chemical weapons agents at one of the targets, and that the strikes had significantly crippled Syria's ability to produce such weapons.