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Syrian authorities announced on Wednesday the arrest of a former officer they say was a chemical weapons specialist in charge of sarin gas depots and chemical weapons manufacturing during ousted president Bashar al-Assad’s era.
Since al-Assad’s fall in December 2024, authorities have arrested dozens of people they say committed crimes during the country’s 13-year civil war, and started trials in April.
The interior ministry said security forces had arrested colonel Ahmed Habib Ali, calling him “a chemical weapons expert.”
