Russia warns that foreign-sponsored HTS terrorists are preparing for a chemical attack in Syria's northwestern province of Idlib to implicate government troops.

Iran’s foreign minister has blasted the Western countries that provided former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein with deadly chemicals, but now “care not to remember” his massacre of Iraqi people with the same weapons of mass destruction (WMDs).

Iran sues European firms for providing Saddam with chemical weapons.

Russia’s UN Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia says Western countries are repeatedly using the so-called Syria chemical file as a tool to pressure the Damascus government.

Tehran says it has taken some European firms to international courts over their involvement in Saddam’s chemical attacks on Iranians.

A back and forth exchange at the latest UN meeting discussing alleged use of chemical weapons to pressure the Syrian Arab Republic with allegations devoid of substantial evidence.

Such discussions would be held without the participation of Syria’s representative, but we’ll oppose that, the diplomat said.

Syria’s UN envoy says the OPCW and its teams are being manipulated by countries hostile to the incumbent Damascus government.

The fight against Daesh turned Major-General Soleimani, who had evolved into so much more on the battlefield and at home as a person, from a shadow figure into a major player in the geopolitics of the region.

Syria’s deputy foreign minister says the Organization of Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has become a tool in the hands of the US and its allies.