Britain to Help Destroy Syrian Chemical Arms

Britain has agreed to destroy part of Syria's chemical weapons stockpile at a commercial facility and escort Scandinavian ships transporting the toxic cargo, the British government said on Friday.   Roughly 150 tons of industrial chemicals will be transported from Syria by ship to a port in Britain, the Foreign Office said in a statement.   The regime of Bashar al-Assad declared 1,300 tons of chemical weapons to the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical...

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