Renewed chemical attack in Syria
As the conflict in Syria enters its eighth year, Parliament is due to debate the situation, following a recent escalation. The Assad regime is suspected of having carried out a toxic gas attack on the besieged town of Douma near Damascus on 7 April 2018, killing around 80 people and injuring hundreds. The United Nations Security Council debated the attack during an emergency meeting on 9 April 2018, during which Russia denied Syrian regime responsibility for the attack. The EU has strongly condemned the latest use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict, and the United States, France and the United Kingdom have signalled their willingness to respond with air-strikes in order to uphold the global ban on the use of chemical weapons.
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- América
- arma química
- Asia-Oceanía
- defensa
- DERECHO
- derechos humanos
- derechos y libertades
- Estados Unidos
- Europa
- GEOGRAFÍA
- geografía económica
- geografía política
- guerra civil
- intervención militar
- Naciones Unidas
- ONU
- ORGANIZACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- política internacional
- RELACIONES INTERNACIONALES
- relación multilateral
- seguridad internacional
- Siria
- Turquía
- VIDA POLÍTICA
- vida política y seguridad pública
- víctima civil