A woman holds a Syrian flag during a protest against air strikes on Syria in Baghdad, Iraq on April 15, 2018.
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Are air strikes really a way to hold the Syrian regime responsible for its alleged atrocities against humanity? History says no.
A Syrian soldier films the damage of the Syrian Scientific Research Center which was attacked by U.S., British and French military strikes.
AP Photo/Hassan Ammar
The United Nations Charter doesn’t allow the use of military force to prevent chemical weapons attacks — no matter how evil — without UN Security Council approval. That needs to change.
The UN Security Council has proved powerless to stop Assad’s use of chemical agents.
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Nothing the world has done has stopped Bashar al-Assad’s regime from using chemical weapons – but it’s imperative to keep trying.
Emergency personnel at the Ashley Wood Recovery Centre in Salisbury as the investigation into the suspected nerve agent attack on Russian double agent Sergei Skripal continues.
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An audio version of an in depth article on the story of how the nerve agent used in an attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was developed.
Skripal attack: military investigators tread carefully.
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International law on chemical weapons fails without mutual trust and transparency.
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Hundreds of people have been warned after former Russian spy Sergei Skripal was poisoned with Novichok nerve agent.
Military working in the area where the poisoning took place wear protective clothing to reduce risk to their own health.
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Even if they do eventually wake up, Sergei and Julia Skripal could suffer permanent damage as a result of their exposure to a Novichok nerve agent.
Investigating the possible scene of the crime in Salisbury.
EPA/Gerry Penny
Russia isn’t the only suspect when it comes to the practice known as ‘wetwork’.
Investigators next to a police tent in Salisbury near to where Sergei Skripal was found critically ill.
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Nerve agents were discovered by accident in the 1930s.
Denial in Damascus.
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Denial and obfuscation have always been a part of chemical warfare.
EPA/US Navy/Christopher Lindahl
Donald Trump’s predecessor once made an empty threat against Bashar al-Assad – and it didn’t end well.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson in Moscow, April 12 2017.
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Relations between Russia and the United States have reached an all-time low since the US strike on Syria. But Moscow knows that Washington will need its support if tension rises with North Korea.
Syrian doctors treat a child following a suspected chemical attack in the town of Khan Sheikhoun, northern Idlib province, Syria.
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Will recent photos of chemical attack victims in Syria provoke a short-term emotional reaction or a sustained humanitarian campaign?
Inspecting the rubble of a damaged house after a US airstrike in Daraa Al-Balad, Syria, April 7 2017.
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The recent American airstrike in Syria has created a new norm in international law sanctioning the unilateral use of force to punish those who deploy chemical weapons against their own people.
Russian President Vladimir Putin is seen on the screen of a television camera during his visit to the new studio complex Russia Today in June 2013.
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A Russian media expert spent the weekend consuming Russian coverage of America’s response to the chemical attacks in Syria.
Syrian children, first aiders and civil defence volunteers showing their support of victims in the recent alleged chemical attack in Syria.
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The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons Fact Finding Team has not yet revealed the nature of the chemicals used in Khan Sheikhoun.
Enzymes, the catalysts of biology, can engulf and break down hundreds of nerve agent molecules per second.
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Scientists invented chemical weapons; some are now working to destroy them. New biomolecular design techniques let researchers design proteins that can destroy nerve agents in bodies.
Trump boards Air Force One on April 6, 2017.
REUTERS/Carlos Barria
‘America First’ apparently doesn’t mean a step away from playing the world’s policeman – and three more things to note about U.S. airstrikes on Syria.
An alliance tested.
EPA/Jim Lo Scalzo/Sputnik Pool
A thawing of tensions between the two superpowers seems as far away as it was under Obama.
Trump has a change of heart.
Reuters/Carlos Barria
Donald Trump suddenly appears to have been overcome with a sense of responsibility towards the people of Syria. How can that be explained?