Him Shinshar chemical weapons storage siteThe chairman of the US joint chiefs of staff, Gen Joseph Dunford, said Him Shinshar was “the primary location of Syrian sarin and precursor production equipment”. Him Shinshar chemical weapons bunkerThe site west of the city of Homs was an alleged underground chemical weapons storage facility, doubling as a command post. Barzah research and development centre DamascusThe scientific research facility in Barzeh, north of Damascus, was purported to be the centre of Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons programme. Footage and photographs after the raid showed destroyed concrete office blocks and Syrian soldiers picking their way through the rubble. In May last year, the BBC reported that the Barzah site was being used by the Syrian regime to install chemical weapons on long-range missiles, violating the 2013 agreement to eliminate chemical weapons from the country.

Source: The Guardian April 15, 2018 19:30 UTC