Thursday 31 October 2013

Syria's chemical arms production equipment destroyed: watchdog

THE HAGUE: All of Syria's declared chemical arms production equipment has been destroyed ahead of a Saturday deadline, a source at the world's chemical weapons watchdog said.

"Syria has completed rendering inoperable its chemical weapons production and assembly installations," the source at the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) said, asking to remain anonymous ahead of an official announcement later Thursday.