More than 100 chemical weapons sites remain in Syria, then left behind The fall of the president for a long timeBashar al-Assad, according to the leading international organization that follows these weapons.
This number is trying to enter Syria to evaluate the organization, Mr al-Assad's infamous program for the banning of chemical weapons. This figure is higher than anything that Mr. Al-Assad has ever taken.
The sites are suspected of participating in chemical weapons research, production and maintenance. Mr. Al-Assad used Weapons like Sarin and chlorine gas against rebel fighters and Syrian civilians in more than ten years civil war.
The number of sites and whether they were provided, the rebels were a mystery because Mr. Al-Assad fell last year. Now represents a large test for chemicals The mediator governmentHe led the group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham. The group is determined as a terrorist organization in the United States, but it refused to connect with Al Qaeda.
The mistakes are high How fatal weapons arewhen used in particular areas in dense settled. Sarin a nervous agent can kill in a few minutes. Chlorine and Mustard gas burning weapons, eyes and skin in the world war and fill in the lungs with liquid, which are seemingly drowning people from land.
Experts are concerned about the potential of militant groups to access the weak-provided chemical weapons facilities.
In March, the Syrian Foreign Minister Hague is a surprise visit to the global chemical weapons headquarters, the Syrian Foreign Minister will destroy the government's chemical weapons program “under the Assad regime, he said.
Experts are cautiously optimistic about the sincerity of government. The current government has allowed a team to enter the country this year, to enter the country this year.
But Syria remains together Severity erupted in the coastal area In recent weeks, Mr. Al-Assad matched the government forces and groups. Despite the promises, the new government has not yet appointed the guardian – the first step in the first step in the country's obligation. The Syrian Defense Ministry refused to answer written questions about weapons, saying that the questions are not under Purview.
In the first years of the civil war, Mr. Al-Assad's government sent the organization or OPCW to visit and close inspectors to ban 27 websites and chemical weapons. However, Mr al-Assad continued to use chemical weapons by at least by 2018 and The study showed The government of the government has imported the chemicals that imports chemicals.
The current estimate of more than 100 sites comes from the guard and recently spread among experts and international non-print analysts. The organization said that foreign researchers, non-profit groups and members of intelligence shared by member countries.
Some sites are probably hidden in other places that are difficult to use satellite images in caves or vendors, former organizers and other specialists. Increases the probability that some weapons are not provided.
“There are many places we don't know because the old mode lie to OPCW,” he said.
Nidal Shikhani, who led the documentation center in Syria, has been working with the organization for the banning of chemical weapons, said that the group, the Syrian government, which lives in Europe, said that the Syrian government and the Syrian government with scientists.
It is important for the reasons for finding control and control of controls. The inspectors also want to raise evidence for his research on the chemical weapons, according to his research. International observers, independent researchers and Syrian humanitarian groups documented Thousands of people, including children among the victims, attack with them. The most notorious was one 2013 Sarin Gas Assault In the Ghouta region, around the capital, Damascus.
Last year, Israel began air attacks in several Syrian regimes where chemical weapons were held. However, it is unknown whether these strokes destroy chemical weapons.
Mr Shikhani and others said that the strikes were simply created environmental pollution and worried about the destruction of evidence. International groups I hope that chemical evidence will answer the main questions that help the Assad's investigation and international judgment.
“Immediately after Assad's fall, Israeli attacks are likely to dent in some of them, and potentially, a chief companion, which is a center of strategic and international studies in Washington.
Sarin gas is prohibited in international law. The rules are a murkier for other chemicals. For example, chlorine gas can be created using common household cleaning products. It is almost impossible to adjust the sale of precursors.
Syria's chemical weapons program, in the 1970s with the help of a scientist of the Azerbaijani scientist, according to an old government chemist, who speaks in an anonymity in Germany and other regions.
The scientist worked in the distribution of chemical weapons in the Scientific Research and Research Center of the Army. The center in international sanctions worked on ordinary, chemical and nuclear weapons.
Many scientists and others fled the country during the war, but others remain in Syria. The United States has imposed sanctions on more than 300 people and institutions in connection with the Syrian chemical weapons program.
Despite the guarantee of the new government, weapons inspectors are tiemq. Earlier, such inspections in Syria heard.
Syria initially agreed to get rid of chemical weapons before ten years ago. However, as the inspectors worked, Mr. Al-Assad was convinced that he did not intend to reveal full information about his shares. Former workers say they are Hamstrung forever by the government.
In an episode In 2014, the members of the inspectors and Syrian workers were investigating a potential site when a roadside bomb in the caravan. He accused the two Syrian government in the convoy and ensure the safety of the route. Other workers were constantly frightened by the government, fearing they were talking or spying on or spying.
Mr al-Assad's government also covered the attacks used by Sarin and chlorine gas in one's people.
In Zamalka, the headstones near Damascus record the names and deaths of many residents killed during the war. The cemetery sits on the other side and sits on a kirle from dirt, which has not been piled on the ground.
It was there, a local officer, the city died, said that the people of the city buried women and children 2013 suspected chemical weapons attack. Mr. Al-Assad's government, in 2017, took the head of the government, and the government's headstones and covered the cemetery.