Have checked 11 nuclear sites in Syria: OPCW
17 Oct 2013 5:42 AM IST
The organization that won the Nobel Peace Prize last week is attempting to oversee the destruction of Syria’s chemical weapons, precursor chemicals and production facilities by mid-2014.
It said on Wednesday in a brief update on the mission that the OPCW-United Nations team in Syria also has overseen the destruction of unloaded chemical weapons munitions - further reducing the ability of Bashar Assad’s regime to use poison gas in his country’s civil war.
A week ago, inspectors were just beginning their mission and had only visited two sites, so the latest figures represent a significant acceleration in the team’s work.
Earlier on Wednesday, Syrian activists said that two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaida-linked rebels in the northeast have killed at least 41 on both sides.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the clashes in Hassakeh province pitted Kurdish militias against rebels from two al-Qaida-linked factions - Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Such rebel infighting has become common in recent months in the northeast, which has a large Kurdish population.
Observatory’s director Rami Abdul-Rahman said on Wednesday that 29 of the dead are from the two extremist groups, while the remaining 12 are Kurdish fighters.
An explosion struck a vehicle packed with passengers traveling in southern Syria overnight, killing at least 21 people, including four children, activists said on Wednesday.
The deaths came as Muslims observe Eid al-Adha and underscored just how relentless the violence in Syria’s civil war is.
It said on Wednesday in a brief update on the mission that the OPCW-United Nations team in Syria also has overseen the destruction of unloaded chemical weapons munitions - further reducing the ability of Bashar Assad’s regime to use poison gas in his country’s civil war.
A week ago, inspectors were just beginning their mission and had only visited two sites, so the latest figures represent a significant acceleration in the team’s work.
Earlier on Wednesday, Syrian activists said that two days of heavy clashes between Kurdish fighters and al-Qaida-linked rebels in the northeast have killed at least 41 on both sides.
The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says the clashes in Hassakeh province pitted Kurdish militias against rebels from two al-Qaida-linked factions - Jabhat al-Nusra and the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant.
Such rebel infighting has become common in recent months in the northeast, which has a large Kurdish population.
Observatory’s director Rami Abdul-Rahman said on Wednesday that 29 of the dead are from the two extremist groups, while the remaining 12 are Kurdish fighters.
An explosion struck a vehicle packed with passengers traveling in southern Syria overnight, killing at least 21 people, including four children, activists said on Wednesday.
The deaths came as Muslims observe Eid al-Adha and underscored just how relentless the violence in Syria’s civil war is.
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