A unit of elite Syrian troops was responsible for a 2018 chemical weapons attack that killed 43 civilians in the Syrian town of Douma, the global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday. The April 7 ...

“The use of chemical weapons in Douma – and anywhere – is unacceptable and a breach of international law,” he said. Weaponising chlorine is prohibited under the Chemical Weapons ...

A previous investigation by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) had already concluded in March 2019 that a chemical attack had taken place in Douma, but that inquiry ...

Ahmed Douma was one of the best-known faces of Egypt’s 2011 uprising. Rights groups say thousands of political prisoners remain detained under President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. By Aaron Boxerman ...

CAIRO, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Egypt's President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned prominent activist Ahmed Douma, along with a number of prisoners, state TV said on Saturday. Douma, a leading figure in ...

A chemical strike that killed 43 people in the Syrian city of Douma in 2018 was almost certainly the work of Syria's air force, a watchdog has found. An investigation by the global chemical ...

CAIRO — Egyptian President Abdel Fatah El-Sisi pardoned the prominent Arab Spring activist Ahmed Douma and more than 30 other political prisoners on Saturday, in his latest gesture toward ...

Egyptian activist Ahmed Douma, a leading figure in the country's 2011 uprising who has spent the past decade behind bars, walked free from prison Saturday following a presidential pardon. Douma, now ...

Douma, now 37, was a leading activist in the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime president Hosni Mubarak. He was arrested in the sweeping crackdown that followed the army's 2013 ouster of Mohamed ...