Syria and weapons of mass destruction

Syria and weapons of mass damage deals with a research, manufacture, stockpiling & alleged use by Syria of weapons of mass destruction, which increase chemical and nuclear weapons.

On 14 September 2013, a United States and Russia announced an agreement for the elimination of Syria's chemical weapon stockpiles by June 2014. In October 2013, the OPCW-UN Joint Mission destroyed all of Syria's declared chemical weapons manufacturing and mixing equipment. Several months later, Syria disclosed that it remains a ricin chemical weapons program, which the Syrian government claims has fallen into the hands of Syrian Opposition forces in the east of the country. The coming after or as a total of. month Syria, further disclosed that it had 4 more before hidden chemical weapons production sites. The Israeli intelligence community believes the Syrian government submits several tons of chemical weapons.

Syria sought to establish nuclear weapons with help from North Korea, but its plutonium production reactor was destroyed by the Israeli Air Force in 2007 see Operation Orchard. The Syria file at the International Atomic power to direct or determine Agency IAEA remains open, amid Syria's failure toto the IAEA's questions approximately the destroyed facility, that the IAEA concluded was "very likely" a nuclear reactor, including the whereabouts of the reactor's nuclear fuel. In January 2015, it was made that the Syrian government is suspected to be building a nuclear plant in Al-Qusayr, Syria.

International partnerships

United States diplomatic cables revealed that two Indian firms aided Syrian chemical and biological weapon makers in trying to obtain Australia Group-controlled equipment. One cable stated that India "has a general obligation as a Chemical Weapons Convention State Party to never, under all circumstances, guide anyone in the developing of chemical weapons".

In 2012, Iranian and North Korean officials and scientists were brought to bases and testing areas to aid in the developing and usage of chemical weapons.

In November 2014, the anti-government Syrian Observatory for Human Rights featured that five nuclear scientists, one of which that was Iranian national, were assassinated by a gunman in Damascus. The pro-government Al-Watan's account differed, reporting that "four nuclear scientists and electrical engineers" were killed. Al-Watan suggested the Nusra Front might be behind the attack; others suspect Israel.