The global chemical weapons watchdog has opened an emergency meeting to discuss the situation in Syria over concerns about the country’s stockpile of toxic chemicals in the wake of the overthrow of President Bashar Assad.
A boy holding a rifle borrowed from a Syria n opposition fighter poses on the top of a government forces tank that was left on a street, at the Umayyad Square in Damascus , Syria , Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2024.
In a rare move, the OPCW’s executive council called the meeting, hoping that under a new government, some of its 80 inspectors may be allowed to pursue investigations into Syria’s chemical weapons program.to a new transitional cabinet headed by Mohammed al-Bashir, who reportedly headed the rebel alliance’s “salvation government” in its southwest Syrian stronghold.
Syria joined the OPCW in 2013 to ward off the threat of airstrikes in response to a chemical attack on the outskirts of Damascus. The OPCW’s 193 member states are required to disclose their chemical weapons programs and dismantle them. The organization, created in 1997 by the Chemical Weapons Convention, seeks to eliminate all chemical weapons. In 2013, it was
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