NNA - The world's chemical weapons watchdog said Thursday that it had completed nearly half its inspections of Syria's arsenal, despite working against a background of car bombings and mortar attacks, AFP said.


"We have done nearly 50 percent of the verification work of the facilities that have been declared to us," Malik Ellahi, a political adviser on Syria for the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, told journalists in The Hague.



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