Sentences with phrase «use of chemical weapons»

He has committed many of his most egregious war crimes strategically — sometimes to eliminate civilians who would rather die than live under his rule, sometimes to neuter an international order that occasionally threatens to limit his power, and sometimes, as with his use of chemical weapons, to accomplish both goals at once.

Back to Baghdad takes players further into Kuwait as they try to neutralize scud missile installations, prevent the use of chemical weapons, free prisoners of war, and oust Hussein's Republican Guard from their entrenched position within Kuwait City.

April 13, 2018 • President Trump criticized President Obama for not enforcing his red line on Syria's use of chemical weapons.

And then there is a fictional story about U.S. use of chemical weapons code - named «Genoa,» based on a real 1998 story that got CNN in trouble.

Other activities include the first European employment survey and the commemoration of the centenary of the 1st large scale use of chemical weapons.

Over the years I have investigated some 6 allegations of use of chemical weapons.»

The attempted assassination of Sergei and Yulia Skripal has sparked an international crisis, with UK allies expelling scores of Russian diplomats in solidarity against the apparent use of chemical weapons on British soil.

The CWC outlaws the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons and their precursors.

This also holds true even for the items that were on the U.S. — China agenda at Mar - a-Lago, such as the future of war - torn Syria after Trump ordered a cruise missile strike in response to that nation's use of chemical weapons in its civil war.

«With increasing worldwide concern about the use of chemical weapons, there is significant interest in developing better counteragents,» said David A. Jett, Ph.D., director of the CounterACT program, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), a part of NIH.

Tory MP Jesse Norman has been kicked off the Number 10 policy board after refusing to back the Prime Minister's call for action against the Assad regime's use of chemical weapons.

«In light of the fact the Assad regime had already been violently oppressing internal dissent for many months by the beginning of 2012 and the intelligence now indicates use of chemical weapons on multiple occasions, a full explanation is needed,» he added.

(CNN)-- Rep. Michael Grimm, who on Monday voiced support for President Barack Obama's plan to strike Syria, stepped away from his endorsement on Thursday by claiming the president was backtracking on previously held postures toward the use of chemical weapons.

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

The attack was in response to Syria's use of chemical weapons that killed dozens of civilians.

As Western resolve to «do something» over the use of chemical weapons in Syria hardens, military intervention has emerged as the last resort.

«As for the morality of that decision we have recently had both the memorial of the Halabja massacre where thousands of people were murdered in one day by Saddam's use of chemical weapons; and that of the Iran - Iraq war where casualties numbered up to a million including many killed by chemical weapons.

Apart from the obvious danger of really widespread use of chemical weapons, further regional destabilisation would be on the cards drawing Lebanon, Iraq, Jordan and possibly Israel ever deeper into a regional quagmire from which there will be no easy escape and which will be difficult to contain or roll back.

With Obama in Sweden and Russia trying in part to rally global backing to punish Syria for its alleged use of chemical weapons, his chief of staff briefed two Democratic blocs - the solidly anti-war liberal Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.

She drew scrutiny for secretly meeting with Syrian President Bashar Assad and criticizing the U.S. strike on Syria following Assad's alleged use of chemical weapons on civilians.

Yet the use of chemical weapons against a country's own citizens surely requires a forceful act of intervention, even if that includes limited military action.

The technology is being pursued particularly single - mindedly amid growing signs of public dissatisfaction with British military adventures, not least the decision not to pursue intervention in Syria following President Assad's use of chemical weapons last year.

He responded: «There's one overwhelming reason why this was the right thing to do, and that is to deter the use of chemical weapons, not just by the Assad regime but around the world.

It is an affront to the prohibition on the use of chemical weapons.

And I think one of the most distressing things about the events of the last few years has been the contemptuous growth in the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian theatre of conflict...

Last week President Obama's «red line» was crossed by incumbent President of Syria, Bashar al - Assad, who ordered the use of chemical weapons against the rebels.

Ministers would seek to act against Assad's use of chemical weapons because the alternative would be more victims, and because the west had to stand up to him.

He feels that «any decisions on providing arms to the opposition based on the unproven accusations of Damascus's use of chemical weapons could just additionally destabilize the situation».

There is overwhelming evidence of the use of chemical weapons in these areas such as these pictures taken in the last week (distrubing image warning): (1 2 3 4)

I am not for the use of chemical weapons, but it should also be noted that gas could destroy enemy troops while leaving the infrastructure in a city relatively unharmed.

It was not a mistake for Obama to mention those red lines, because the use of chemical weapons against civilians does send the conflict towards an entirely new level of suffering and death.

That's true that the use of chemical weapons galvanizes the west against Assad, but, I think the best way to put it is like this.

They want proof of the use of chemical weapons and who by.

David Cameron agreed that the use of chemical weapons in Syria could trigger western intervention, following a telephone conversation with Barack Obama last night.

Granted, it's affected Trump and lead him to drop some bombs on an airport (after giving the Russians a head up) and it lead Trump to make a threatening tweet, but for the voting american public the use of chemical weapons doesn't move the dial that much.

«The Syrian situation poses two conflicting goals: to allow the use of chemical weapons by the Syrian government to go unanswered would encourage the Assad regime, and other rogue governments, to use them again, but the last thing America needs or wants is a protracted conflict in the Middle East when our primary focus must be on jobs, the economy and the middle class.

The report comes at a time when Corbyn has been attacked over what critics say is his unwillingness to criticise Russia over the Salisbury nerve agent attack and the use of chemical weapons in Syria.

The MoD is still taking stock of the surprise decision of the House of Commons last summer to reject military intervention to punish President Assad of Syria for the use of chemical weapons against rebel forces.

«The question we have to ask ourselves is if there is no action following this big use of chemical weapons is it going to be more likely in future that more and more regimes will use chemical weapons?»

«When we see a crisis of this sort, the use of chemical weapons against the regime's own people, there needs to be a response and that response needs to come from the international community,» the PM's spokesman explained.

Some say the use of chemical weapons, which have long been considered a red - line for US involvement, was a counter-productive move by the regime.

«Nobody disagrees with our revulsion at the use of chemical weapons the question is how to deal with it,» Miliband says again.

«You have to put the Armageddon question the other way - if no action takes place following this appalling use of chemical weapons, what sort of Armageddon will the Syrian people be facing?»

In a statement designed to alleviate fears that the west may be planning a programme of regime change, he insisted any intervention would be launched only to limit the use of chemical weapons.

At the moment, the official U.S. position is that the Assad's regime is responsible for use of chemical weapons.

«The question we need to ask is whether acting or not acting will make the use of chemical weapons more prevalent.»

Dangerously, he says we should be clear about our revulsion at the use of chemical weapons.

Likewise, prevention of the use of chemical weapons, which also has failed.

The extent of insults aimed at Miliband, emanating from No 10 on a matter as sensitive as response to the use of chemical weapons, suggests the prime minister has personally authorised a concerted counter-attack on the Labour leader as he seeks to divert blame before the new parliamentary term, which begins on Monday, and before a meeting of G20 leaders, including President Barack Obama, in Russia on Thursday.

In a previous post, I considered the possibility of a (collective) self defence justification for the use of force in response to a use of chemical weapons.