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The biggest chemical attack in Syria’s civil war hit the besieged Damascus suburb of East Ghouta four years ago this week. For survivors, the pain and anger has not faded ...
Idlib, northwest Syria – It has been 10 years since the chemical attacks in eastern Ghouta, on the outskirts of the capital, Damascus, and Umm Yahya – a nurse at a local hospital at the time ...
Ghouta Chemical Attack: Syria's Assad Remains Unrestrained, Unpunished and Unrepentant Five Years On. Published Aug 21, 2018 at 9:26 AM EDT Updated Aug 21, 2018 at 5:39 PM EDT. By .
Rockets fell on Ghouta, releasing sarin gas that contaminated more than 7,000 people and killed a total of 1,300 – the worst chemical attack on Syria to date. On that horrible day, we all became ...
Eleven years after a chemical weapons attack killed hundreds in his home region of Ghouta, near Damascus, Syrian surgeon Selim Namour refuses to give up the fight to bring those responsible to ...
LONDON Prime Minister David Cameron told British lawmakers Thursday that there is "no 100 percent certainty about who is responsible" for the apparent mass-chemical weapons attack on suburban ...
A team of UN chemical weapons inspectors have confirmed that the nerve agent sarin was used in an attack on the Ghouta agricultural belt around Damascus on the morning of 21 August.
A suspected chemical attack in Syria's besieged Eastern Ghouta suburb left one child dead and more than a dozen civilians with symptoms consistent with exposure to chlorine gas, according to ...
Ghouta chemical attack: Two years onward. Without collective international action, peace in Syria could still be a long way off.
The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons released the results of a nearly two-year-long investigation into the chemical weapons attack in Ghouta, Syria, in 2018.
With Bashar al-Assad gone, survivors of his regime's chemical attacks share their stories. NPR met a father who was forced for years to stay silent about how his children were killed.