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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

chemical weapons

Russian Maj. Gen. Igor Kirillov, the chief of the Russian military's radiation, chemical and biological protection unit, attends a briefing in Kubinka Patriot park, outside Moscow, Russia, on June 22, 2018. (AP Photo, File)
December 17, 2024, 11:53 am
Russia’s top WMD general killed by bomb in Moscow in apparent Ukrainian operation
Ukrainian source says Igor Kirillov, head of ‘Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Protection’ forces, killed in special op after he allegedly deployed chemical weapons on battlefield
By Agencies
A video circulating on social media purports to show an Israeli airstrike in at the Mezzeh airbase near Damascus, Syria, December 8, 2024. (Screenshot via X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
December 8, 2024, 11:19 pm
As Assad ousted, Israeli jets destroy his deadly arsenals before they fall to rebels
IAF strikes target missile depots, air defenses, chemical sites amid fears that advanced arms could fall into hands of hostile groups; IDF seizes buffer zone, in first since 1974
By Emanuel Fabian and Agencies
Syrian opposition fighters ride along the streets of Hama, Syria, after taking over the city, December 6, 2024. (AP Photo/Ghaith Alsayed)
December 6, 2024, 11:33 pm
IDF bolsters forces on Syria border as rebels appear set to capture Homs
Israel said to strike Syrian chemical weapons cache for fear it will fall into wrong hands, amid assessment Assad’s military crumbling in face of jihadi group’s lightning offensive
By Emanuel Fabian, ToI Staff and Agencies
President Isaac Herzog shows materials recovered from the body of a Hamas terrorist during an interview with Sky News, October 22, 2023. (Screenshot: used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 23, 2023, 12:42 am
Herzog: Hamas brought instructions on making chemical weapons to Oct. 7 onslaught
President says terrorist from Gaza had USB with material copied from al-Qaeda on ‘dispersing cyanide’; meets with relatives of hostages, vows ‘to do everything’ to bring them home
By ToI Staff
A technician works to destroy the United States' chemical weapons stockpile at the US Army Pueblo Chemical Depot, June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colorado. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)
July 7, 2023, 8:23 am
US finally destroying the last of its declared chemical weapons stockpile
Officials believe initiative will encourage other countries to comply with 1997 international Chemical Weapons Convention – which Israel has signed but not ratified
By Andrew DeMillo, Thomas Peipert and DYLAN LOVAN
People stand in front of damaged buildings in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapon attack, near Damascus, Syria, on April 16, 2018. (Hassan Ammar/AP)
February 2, 2023, 2:53 pm
Syria blasts chemical watchdog report on 2018 attack as pandering to Western nations
Damascus regime’s representative in Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons says group’s findings based on ‘serious irregularities and defects’
By SAMAR KASSABALLI and Kareem Chehayeb
People stand in front of damaged buildings, in the town of Douma, the site of a suspected chemical weapons attack, near Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar, File)
January 27, 2023, 2:27 pm
Chemical weapons watchdog blames Syria’s air force for deadly 2018 chlorine attack
Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons investigation finds ‘reasonable grounds to believe’ helicopter dropped two cylinders containing gas, killing 43
By Mike Corder
President Joe Biden speaks in the State Dining Room of the White House, February 9, 2022, in Washington; Russian President Vladimir Putin chairs a Security Council meeting via videoconference at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, February 11, 2022. ( (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky; Alexei Nikolsky, Sputnik, Kremlin Pool Photo via AP)
September 18, 2022, 3:32 am
‘Don’t. Don’t’: Biden warns Putin against using nuclear weapons in Ukraine
US president says such a step by Putin, who’s losing ground in Ukraine, ‘would change the face of war unlike anything since World War II’; they’d become even ‘more of a pariah’
By AFP
A man receiving oxygen through respirators following a suspected chemical attack on the town of al-Khalidiya, in Aleppo, Syria, November 24, 2018 (SANA via AP)
April 13, 2022, 9:25 pm
Chemical weapons use by Russian ally Syria fuels Ukrainian fears
Head of rights group says lack of punishment for those behind Syrian attacks ‘lowers the threshold for the use of such weapons’ in the future
By Zeina Karam
British armed forces minister James Heappey speaks to Sky News about the Russian invasion of Ukraine, April 12, 2022. (Screen grab/Twitter/Sky News)
April 12, 2022, 12:20 pm
Russian chemical attack in Ukraine will draw Western response, UK minister warns
Armed forces minister James Heappey says ‘all possible options’ on the table if Putin uses chemical weapons, after Ukraine accuses Russia of using ‘poisonous substance’ in Mariupol
By AFP
Residents stand outside their apartments as shops burn after a Russian attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, Monday, April 11, 2022. (AP Photo/Felipe Dana)
April 12, 2022, 4:31 am
Ukraine unit accuses Russia of using chemical weapons; UN calls to probe rapes
UK says its working to verify allegations Russia used chemical agent in Mariupol; UN also calls for greater protection of Ukrainian children, says two-thirds are displaced
By Agencies
US President Joe Biden meets service members from the 82nd Airborne Division, who are contributing alongside Polish Allies to deterrence on the Alliance's Eastern Flank, in the city of Rzeszow in southeastern Poland, around 100 kilometers (62 miles) from the border with Ukraine, March 25, 2022. (Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
March 25, 2022, 8:49 pm
Biden lands in Poland as US says it won’t use chemical weapons even if Russia does
Jake Sullivan says there’s a ‘convergence’ among Western leaders on how they’d respond
By Agencies
US President Joe Biden gestures ahead of a European Union (EU) summit at EU Headquarters in Brussels, March 24, 2022. (Photo by Brendan SMIALOWSKI / AFP)
March 24, 2022, 8:12 pm
Biden says chemical attack on Ukraine would spur ‘response in kind’
NATO has ‘never been more united,’ US president says, noting that Putin is banking on a divided alliance; Zelensky warns of ‘real’ threat of Russia turning to chemical weapons
By AFP and ToI Staff
In this Saturday, May 20, 2000 file photo, two Russian soldiers make a routine check of metal containers with toxic agents at a chemical weapons storage site in the town of Gorny, 124 miles south of the Volga River city of Saratov, Russia. (AP Photo, File)
March 22, 2022, 6:28 am
Biden says Putin considering using chemical, biological weapons in Ukraine
US president warns of a ‘severe’ Western response if Moscow deploys such weapons, cautions against Russian false flag operations
By AFP
NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg speaks during a press conference ahead of the alliance's defense ministers' meeting, at the NATO headquarters in Brussels, on March 15, 2022. (Kenzo Tribouillard/AFP)
March 15, 2022, 11:56 pm
NATO says concerned Russia readying for chemical attack in Ukraine
Alliance’s chief says Moscow would have ‘a high price to pay’ if it uses chemical weapons, refuses to ‘speculate about any any military response from the NATO side’
By AFP
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