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Published on Jan 08, 2025 08:44 pm IST

Ukraine's security service behind blast that killed top Russian general: Report

Igor Kirillov was killed by a bomb kept in a scooter outside his apartment in Moscow.

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Updated on Dec 17, 2024 09:08 pm IST

Russia using banned chemical agent on battlefield, alleges Ukraine

The Ukrainian military said Monday that it had registered 715 cases of the use of ammunition containing "hazardous chemical compounds" by Russian forces in May. REUTERS/Serhii Smolientsev

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Updated on Jun 24, 2024 06:14 pm IST

US destroys its last chemical weapons stockpile

Detonators sit in rows for recycling as workers destroy the United States' chemical weapons stockpile at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot Thursday, June 8, 2023, in Pueblo, Colo.

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Published on Jul 08, 2023 05:14 am IST

Chemical weapons threat increasing amid Ukraine war, warns watchdog

Threats and allegations about the possible use of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons have been traded since the war in Ukraine began in February.

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Published on Nov 28, 2022 09:31 pm IST

Malaysia frees Vietnamese woman accused in killing of North Korean leader’s half-brother

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Updated on May 03, 2019 11:41 am IST

Iran Foreign Minister says US chemical weapons accusations ‘dangerous’

Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif has said that US accusations that Tehran has a chemical weapons programme were “obscene and dangerous”.

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Updated on Nov 24, 2018 08:59 am IST

Pakistan’s allegation of use of chemical weapons in Kashmir false, malicious: India

Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Raveesh Kumar

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Published on Oct 05, 2018 10:23 pm IST

Militants in Syria preparing chemical attack against civilians, says Russian defense ministry

In this photo taken on Tuesday, April 4, 2017 and made available Wednesday, April 5, Turkish experts carry a victim of alleged chemical weapons attacks in Syrian city of Idlib, at a local hospital in Reyhanli, Hatay, Turkey.

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Updated on Aug 25, 2018 07:51 pm IST

Commonwealth lauds Bangladesh for sheltering Rohingya

Journalists put their hands up to ask questions during the closing press conference for the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) at Marlborough House in London on Friday.

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Updated on Apr 21, 2018 09:49 pm IST

Child given ‘dates, cake’ to play part in staging of alleged chemical attack: Russia

This file image released early Sunday, April 8, 2018 by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a child receiving oxygen through a respirator following an alleged poison gas attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria.

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Updated on Apr 19, 2018 08:30 pm IST

India calls for probe into use of chemical weapons in Syria

This image released on April 8, 2018, by the Syrian Civil Defense White Helmets, shows a child receiving oxygen through respirators following an alleged poison gas attack in the rebel-held town of Douma, near Damascus, Syria.

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Published on Apr 17, 2018 04:15 pm IST

Joint strike on Syria won’t improve the ground situation

(FILES) This file photo taken on May 26, 2017 shows (L-R) French President Emmanuel Macron, US President Donald Trump and Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May attending the Summit of the Heads of State and of Government of the G7 plus the European Union in Taormina, Sicily. The US, Britain and France ordered overnight on April 14, 2018 a major military operation by deciding to conduct joint strikes against the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad in response to alleged chemical weapons attacks.

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Updated on Apr 17, 2018 11:15 am IST

After airstrikes, Syrians rally in Damascus in support of Assad’s military

In this photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, protesters wave flags and portraits of President Bashar Assad, as they march during a demonstration to show solidarity with the Syrian armed forces, at Omayyad Square, in Damascus, Syria, Monday, April 16, 2018.

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Updated on Apr 16, 2018 05:26 pm IST

Despite Trump’s ‘mission accomplished’, questions raised over US Syria strategy

The destroyed Scientific Research Centre is seen in Damascus, Syria on Saturday.

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Updated on Apr 15, 2018 10:04 am IST

How the world reacted to US-led airstrikes on Syria

Damascus skies erupt with service to air missile fire as the US launches an attack on Syria targeting different parts of the capital city on Saturday.

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Updated on Apr 14, 2018 03:25 pm IST

What US President Donald Trump said while announcing strikes on Syria

US President Donald Trump addresses the nation on the situation in Syria at the White House in Washington, DC, on Friday.

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Updated on Apr 14, 2018 11:06 am IST

Syria strikes: UK says had no choice, France says chemical weapons capacity targeted

A photo released on April 14 on the twitter page of the Syrian government’s central military media shows an explosion on the outskirts of Damascus after Western strikes reportedly hit Syrian military bases and chemical research centres in and around the capital.

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Published on Apr 14, 2018 09:34 am IST

US launches air strikes on Syria after chemical attack, Russia calls it military crime

US President Donald Trump makes a statement about Syria at the White House in Washington.

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Updated on Apr 15, 2018 07:24 am IST

France President Macron says has ‘proof’ of Syrian chemical attack, vows response

French President Emmanuel Macron arrives inside a classroom prior to attend an one-hour interview with French news channel TF1, at a school in Berd’huis, France, April 12, 2018.

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Updated on Apr 12, 2018 10:42 pm IST