Chemical Weapons

Is it a necessary concession for humanitarian reasons, or part of a trend toward normalization?

Doing so would be a death sentence for global nonproliferation efforts.

Moscow and Damascus have evaded all accountability, but Biden can build a coalition to change that.

Great powers stand to lose the most from weapons like drone swarms and should back a limited ban on the most dangerous systems.

And not just against civilians at home—but potentially against regional rivals.

Conspiracy theories and pseudoscience have left the United States fatally unprepared for real biological warfare.

By deliberately destroying and degrading public health infrastructure, the Syrian regime is reviving long-eradicated diseases and killing civilians.

Evidence of chemical weapons used to require a chain of custody. Now, open-source intelligence is often enough.

There’s a long list of Syrian officials with blood on their hands -- but the culpability goes all the way to the top.

An eyewitness to a chemical attack tells FP that Assad’s forces are dropping barrel bombs containing chlorine gas on hospitals and civilian centers.

The Syrian government is accused of using chlorine in an attack on the city of Sarmin.