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The mugshot of Adnan Abboud Hilweh, an Assad-era general who was arrested by Syria for allegedly being behind chemical attacks against civilians, after his arrest on April 29, 2026. (Syrian Interior Ministry / SANA)
April 30, 2026, 12:11 am
Syria arrests former Assad-era general accused of 2013 chemical attack involvement
Interior Ministry says it detained Adnan Abboud Hilweh, who it says was responsible for sarin nerve gas ‘massacre’ on Damascus-area suburb Ghouta, which killed over 1,000
By AFP
Accompanied by unidentified members of the delegation, U.S. congressman Cory Mills (R-FL), second from right, walks in the Old City of Damascus Friday, April 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Omar Sanadiki)
April 19, 2025, 2:13 am
Republican US congressmen visit Syria, meet with new leadership, local Christians
PA leader Mahmoud Abbas separately meets with Syrian counterpart in Damascus; Syria’s FM to reportedly soon visit US as Islamist-led government pushes for lifting of sanctions
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The headquarters of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), The Hague, Netherlands, May 5, 2017. (Peter Dejong/AP)
April 21, 2021, 4:23 pm
Chemical weapons watchdog strips Syria’s rights over poison gas attacks
Syrian representatives suspended from voting in annual meeting of Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons or from holding any position in global body
By Danny Kemp
In this photo taken on April 4, 2017 and made available April 5, Turkish experts carry a victim of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli, Turkey (IHA via AP)
October 6, 2020, 11:08 am
Human rights groups ask Germany to probe Syria chemical attacks
3 organizations want German AG to investigate deadly sarin attacks on Eastern Ghouta in 2013 and Khan Shaykhun in 2017, arguing there is enough evidence to blame Damascus and Assad
By Frank Jordans
The headquarters of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in The Hague, Netherlands (photo credit: AP/Peter Dejong)
November 25, 2019, 6:49 pm
Showdown looms between Russia, West over Syria chemical weapons probe
Countries to vote Wednesday on annual budget of international watchdog, with Moscow threatening to cut funding if it includes money for team probing Assad attacks
By Danny Kemp
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)
December 7, 2018, 11:46 pm
US accuses Russia of lying about Syria attack to undermine truce
Moscow says rebels fired grenades containing chlorine on November 24 on the regime-held city of Aleppo, while America insists it has ‘credible information’ that account is false
By AFP
Belgian Finance Minister Johan Van Overtveldt speaks with the media at his office in Brussels on Wednesday, April 18, 2018. (AP Photo/Sylvain Plazy)
April 18, 2018, 7:28 pm
Belgium probing if sarin gas ingredient was illegally exported to Syria
Authorities say three companies kept sending the chemical isopropanol even after Damascus destroyed its stock, in violation of EU sanctions
By Raf Casert
The UN Security Council votes to extend investigations into who is responsible for chemical weapons attacks in Syria at the United Nations on October 24, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / TIMOTHY A. CLARY)
October 28, 2017, 2:48 am
Britain calls for UN sanctions on Syria over sarin attack
Watchdog group says Assad’s air force dropped bomb on opposition-held town on April 4, releasing deadly nerve agent that killed more than 80 people
By AFP
A Syrian man collects samples from the site of a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on April 5, 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
October 27, 2017, 1:02 am
UN says Syrian regime responsible for April sarin attack
Experts find Assad’s forces gassed Khan Sheikhoun, killing at least 90 people, as top US diplomat renews call for leader to step down
By Agencies
Syrian children receive treatment following a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, April 4, 2017. (AFP/Mohamed al-Bakour)
October 14, 2017, 6:31 am
Russia raises doubts about UN probe of Syria gas attack
Moscow complains that UN investigators failed to take samples from the airfield used to launch deadly chemical weapons strike
By AFP
An unconscious Syrian child receives treatment at a hospital in Khan Sheikhun, a rebel-held town in the northwestern Syrian Idlib province, following a suspected toxic gas attack on April 4, 2017. (AFP Photo/Omar Haj Kadour)
June 28, 2017, 12:05 pm
Assad said to visit Iranian-run chemical weapons center
Syrian opposition reports US administration learned Assad planning another sarin attack
By Sue Surkes
A German bunker built on the Channel island of Alderney (Andree Stephan/ Wiki media Creative commons)
May 8, 2017, 11:36 am
Authors claim UK covered up tens of thousands dead at Nazi camps on Channel Island
40,000-70,000 slave laborers were killed on German-occupied Alderney — 100 times the official number — researchers assert, claiming to identify sites of mass graves
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: German soldiers prepare to fire a V1 rocket in 1944 (PK-Lysiak/Transocean-Europapress German Federal Archive via Wiki-commons)
May 6, 2017, 3:17 pm
Article claims Nazis, building V1 rocket site, killed 40,000 on occupied UK island
Co-written by ex-British army commander Richard Kemp, extensive piece in the Daily Mail radically challenges accepted WWII history of Alderney, asserts Nazis came close to firing chemical weapons
By ToI Staff
A Syrian man taken to a small hospital in the town of Maaret al-Noman by civil defense workers, following a chemical attack in Khan Sheikhun, a nearby rebel-held town in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, April 4, 2017. (Mohamed al-Bakour/AFP)
May 1, 2017, 8:10 pm
Syrian forces accused of using nerve gas in 4 recent attacks
Human Rights Watch says Assad regime’s use of chemical weapons is ‘a deadly escalation and part of a clear pattern’
By Carole LANDRY
A Syrian man collects samples from the site of a suspected toxic gas attack in Khan Sheikhoun, in Syria's northwestern Idlib province, on April 5, 2017. (AFP/Omar Haj Kadour)
April 20, 2017, 2:23 pm
Russia, Iran bid to sideline Syria gas attack findings with fresh probe
Chemical arms watchdog mulling demand for new investigation despite earlier finding of ‘incontrovertible’ evidence of sarin
By JO BIDDLE
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