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    Chemical weapons watchdog demands information from Syria

    The Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is demanding more information from Syria about the reported recent destruction of two chlorine cylinders that had been linked to a 2018 deadly attack on the Syrian town of Douma, The Associated Press reports.

    The OPCW said Syria’s government sent a note to its secretariat on July 9 reporting that the two cylinders were destroyed by a June 8 air strike on a Syrian military facility which housed a former chemical weapons production facility.

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