The Jerusalem Post reports: “More than 100 chemical weapons sites remain in Syria, according to a global organization which tracks this specific type of weapons. These estimations by the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), as initially reported by the New York Times, followed an assessment of sites left behind by the fall of Bashar al-Assad.

The report assessed the remains of Assad’s military infrastructure, months after the country transitioned. According to the report, the remaining sites exceed any preconceived numbers, with a figure which is significantly higher than those acknowledged by al-Assad himself.

In the Syrian civil war’s earliest days, Assad’s government only disclosed the locations of 27 sites to the OPCW. He continued to use these weapons through at least 2018 and continued to import the chemicals to produce the weapons.

These sites include any facility involved in the manufacturing, distribution, research, and storage of various chemical weapons that the fallen Syrian dictator was known to have used. Among the examples include chlorine gas and sarin, an extremely toxic nerve agent which is both colorless and odorless…”