The Islamic State (IS) militants captured one of the weapons shipments airdropped by the United States to the Kurdish fighters of the People Protection Units (YPG) in the city of Ayn al-Arab in northern Syria, a monitoring group said Tuesday.
The chief of the joint UN- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) mission in Syria told the UN Security Council Thursday that 96 percent of Syria's declared chemical weapons stockpile has been destroyed and only a dozen production facilities remain to be destroyed.
The United Nations- Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) Joint Mission announced Monday that Syria has removed all of its declared chemical arsenal from its territory.
A joint mission overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons program in Syria confirmed on Tuesday that the country has destroyed all its declared arsenal of a chemical called Isopropanol, a UN spokesman told reporter here
More than 90 percent of Syria's chemical weapons material has been removed and destroyed, said Sigrid Kaag, the head of the Joint Mission of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) and the United Nations Thursday.
Approximately 80 percent of the chemical weapons materials have been shipped out of Syria or destroyed, UN spokesperson Stephane Dujarric said at a regular news briefing held Monday.
Japan's ruling coalition approved a new three-point principle governing the export of weapons submitted by the government on Tuesday.
The special coordinator overseeing the elimination of chemical weapons in Syria said on Wednesday that the end-of-June deadline for the total destruction of the program was still achievable.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday said he has expressed concern to the Syrian government of its "now behind schedule" elimination of chemical weapon and said it was "imperative" Damascus "intensify its efforts."
Russian warships had been taking an active part in removing chemical weapons from Syria, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said Tuesday.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Tuesday welcomed the progress made in the process of removing Syria's most critical chemical weapons material outside of the country.
Czech police have found 12 weapons, including pistols and submachine guns at the Palestinian embassy in Prague after a blast killed its ambassador on Wednesday, Czech police head Martin Cervicek said on Sunday.
Czech police found some weapons that had not been registered in the Czech Republic in the expolded building of Palestinian embassy, said Prague police chief Martin Vondrasek on Thursday.
The joint team of the United Nations-Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said on Thursday it "concludes that chemical weapons have been used in the ongoing conflict between the parties in the Syrian Arab Republic."
U.S. President Barack Obama on Thursday welcomed Slovakia's interest in helping destroy the chemical weapons stockpiles in Syria.
The main Albanian opposition Democratic Party (DP) Chair Lulzim Basha said Thursday he was against bringing Syria's chemical weapons in Albania.
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