{"id":6542,"date":"2017-05-05T13:07:16","date_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/?p=6542"},"modified":"2017-05-05T13:07:16","modified_gmt":"2017-05-05T13:07:16","slug":"syria-government-producing-chemical-weapons-at-research-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/2017\/05\/05\/syria-government-producing-chemical-weapons-at-research-facilities\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria government &#8216;producing chemical weapons at research facilities&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&#8217;s government is continuing to make chemical weapons in violation of a 2013 deal to eliminate them, a Western intelligence agency has told the BBC.<\/p>\n<p>A document says chemical and biological munitions are produced at three main sites near Damascus and Hama.<\/p>\n<p>It alleges that both Iran and Russia, the government&#8217;s allies, are aware.<\/p>\n<p>Western powers say a Syrian warplane dropped bombs containing the nerve agent Sarin on an opposition-held town a month ago, killing almost 90 people.<\/p>\n<p>The United States launched a missile strike on a Syrian airbase in response to the incident at Khan Sheikhoun, which President Bashar al-Assad says was faked.<\/p>\n<p>The intelligence document obtained by the BBC says Syria&#8217;s chemical weapons are manufactured at three sites &#8211; Masyaf, in Hama province, and at Dummar and Barzeh, both just outside Damascus. All three are branches of the Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), a government agency, it adds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Syria&rsquo;s government is continuing to make chemical weapons in violation of a 2013 deal to eliminate them, a Western intelligence agency has told the BBC. A document says chemical and biological munitions are produced at three main sites near Damascus and Hama. It alleges that both Iran and Russia, the government&rsquo;s allies, are aware. Western powers say a Syrian warplane dropped bombs containing the nerve agent Sarin on an opposition-held town a month ago, killing almost 90 people. The United States launched a missile strike on a Syrian airbase in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":6543,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6544,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6542\/revisions\/6544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.banglanewsus.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}