ISLAMIC terror outfits could steal Bashar al-Assad’s stockpiles of poisonous chemical weapons and orchestrate deadly attacks across the world, it is feared.
US and Israeli Air Forces are now striking military bases to destroy the weapons left behind by the Assad regime after Syrian rebels toppled his reign.
Syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons stockpile in 2013 after the government was accused of launching an attack near Damascus that killed hundreds of people.
However, it is widely believed to have kept some of the weapons and was accused of using them again in subsequent years.
According to the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), it is “seriously concerned” by large gaps in…
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