Search
Fighting between rival militias in Yemen's anti-Houthi coalition is continuing for a third day, according to reports this morning from the southern city of Aden.
The clashes which broke out on Wednesday involve southern separatists on one side and supporters of Yemen's ousted but internationally…
Dozens of northern Yemenis living in the southern city of Aden have been "deported" back to the north during the last few days, according to local media reports. Forces of the Emirati-trained Security Belt are said to have raided homes, shops and markets, rounding up northerners.
The anti-…
The Arabia Foundation, a pro-Saudi think tank established in Washington only two-and-a-half years ago suddenly closed down yesterday, citing "ongoing differences" among its donors that have "made continued operations difficult".
In a series of posts on Twitter the organisation's founder, Ali…
Articles listed on this page are about the propaganda war relating to chemical attacks in Syria.
The articles are grouped according to specific topics:
The 'propaganda professors'
The Douma controversy
The Mint Press Affair
The Seymour Hersh controversies
A complete listing of articles about the…
This is a complete listing of my blog posts and articles about the Syrian chemical weapons issue, in chronological order.
Some of these articles discuss the related propaganda war and for convenience they are also listed on a separate page, grouped according to specific topics:
The Douma…
A new team to identify the perpetrators of chemical attacks in Syria is now "fully operational", the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) announced last week. However, the creation of the Investigation and Identification Team (IIT) has already caused a rift within…
Before the war in Syria few people had heard of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons and even fewer had any idea what it did. It was one of those obscure international bodies populated by anonymous technocrats, and obscurity suited it well. The general lack of interest meant it…
The point of diplomatic cables, and the cause of excitement when they are leaked, is that they are meant to be private – from which we might assume they contain information that is not generally known and is perhaps too interesting to be shared with the public.
Sadly, that wasn't the case with a…
After a lengthy silence the head of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has revealed some interesting new details about a controversial internal document that surfaced recently on the internet.
The document in question was an “engineering assessment” relating to the OPCW’s…
International law
The Geneva Protocol (1925)
"For the prohibition of the use in war of asphyxiating, poisonous or other gases, and of bacteriological methods of warfare."
Chemical Weapons Convention (effective from 1997)
"On the prohibition of the development, production, stockpiling and use of…
ARAB ART ONLINE: Susan Hefuna: Al Sabr Gamil (Patience is Beautiful) 2007. Ink stained on wood 140 x 170 cm. More information | Click to enlarge
